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General Category => LisaList2 => Topic started by: MrSmith on November 12, 2023, 04:04:01 pm

Title: Alice through the looking glass
Post by: MrSmith on November 12, 2023, 04:04:01 pm

Hi

Is it known if any copies for the LOS exist of Alice through the looking glass?

I understand it was never officially released but just curious if it has surfaced for example from ex-employee systems.

Title: Re: Alice through the looking glass
Post by: ried on November 12, 2023, 10:09:50 pm

Been wondering the same. I've run it in the MacWorks environment on the Lisa, but have never seen an LOS-native version.

Title: Re: Alice through the looking glass
Post by: MrSmith on November 12, 2023, 10:15:19 pm

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Alice.txt&sortOrder=Sort+by+Date&topic=Lisa

Andy Hertzfeld's website would indicate that it did exist at some point.

Title: Re: Alice through the looking glass
Post by: ried on November 12, 2023, 10:51:54 pm

Absolutely did. Also, the retail packaging is sealed with a sticker that reads "This software runs on Macintosh and Lisa." No mention of a MacWorks environment requirement, which might lead one to assume that it... runs on a stock Lisa.

(https://i.imgur.com/nvsIaoR.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/WSQ9Mfv.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/gtNBIf3.jpg)

Title: Re: Alice through the looking glass
Post by: MrSmith on November 12, 2023, 11:25:27 pm

That's a very interesting sticker, the disk should be a boot disk, most of these early games and application disks were,

It might even boot a Lisa, XL

Title: Re: Alice through the looking glass
Post by: D.Finni on November 14, 2023, 09:47:42 pm

Quote from: MrSmith on November 12, 2023, 11:25:27 pm

That's a very interesting sticker

That's the same sticker that Apple put on all their software which was compatible with MacWorks.