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Back in the 90's, Presto Studios was having very frank discussions about the viability of continuing to support the then-disappearing Mac platform — this was before Steve Jobs' return to Apple rescued the company from the brink of bankruptcy. Fortunately, Presto's last two adventure games, Myst 3: Exile and The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time were released for PowerMacs and later ported to Mac OS X. In a nice Thanksgiving surprise, the latter showed up on Apple's website for featured adventure games.
This loaf of cornbread would fit right in with turkey day. It's also perhaps the most elaborately hidden easter egg in The Journeyman Project 3. Here's a few hints: it appears in a remote location after successfully entering an alternate "unlocking" combination somewhere else in the same time zone. Regarding the combination, what creature would you most likely feed this to? This easter egg also triggers yet another easter egg as it can be used in place of another hard-to-get item to gain entry into a restricted area elsewhere in the game.
One player had found evidence of this easter egg in The Journeyman Project 3 by manually scanning through the source files on the DVD-ROM (which may be as sacrilegious to some adventure gamers as using one's hand to score a goal to soccer fans). However, triggering this specific hidden feature is not quite as simple as just pressing the "easter egg" key. Here is the hint: as Arthur compares this location to a carnival "whack-a-mole" game, what would be used to activate one in real life? (this may require a trip across time zones)
Our next hidden gem from The Journeyman Project 3 is an ad-lib by Arthur's voice actor Matt Weinhold that was considered a little too saucy for regular gameplay. This can be triggered with the "easter egg" key somewhere up in the destroyed El Dorado environment. Saving your game progress is recommended as there are specific "points of no return" in each of the destroyed environments.
This first one is fairly well-known: hold down the "easter egg" key (noted above) while clicking on Agent 3's empty JumpSuit when it first appears in the destroyed Atlantis environment. The result is a warning against leaving potentially embarrassing Halloween pics lying around imaginative co-workers.
We've gotten enough requests for some type of official re-release of The Journeyman Project music soundtracks, that we've started a couple of polls below.
Sean, from the MySpace Journeyman Project group, shows off his setup for playing his newly received The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time for Mac OS X on his big screen TV.
We thought we had a decent handle on demand after the recent announcements about The Journeyman Project 3 for Mac OS X brought a steady stream of happy customers. However, the Inside Mac Games story and discussion this morning kind of opened the floodgates a bit more than expected. 
Some of the talented folks who had once worked on The Journeyman Project series and Myst 3 now make up the team at Oceanhouse Media, a new iPhone development studio that's already made it onto Apple's coveted "What's Hot" list of apps.
MacGamer has posted a new interview about some of the challenges faced in updating The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time for Mac OS X and includes a rare peek at the TSA JumpSuit inside Presto Studios' secure and undisclosed location. Inside Mac Games also linked to this with a Q&A follow up in their forum.
Adventure Classic Gaming has posted an in-depth interview, including Michel Kripalani and Roland Gustafsson, regarding work on The Journeyman Project right up to the recent Mac OS X update of The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time.
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It's been confirmed that the new QuickTime 7.6.2 update fixes the bugs from the previous versions (7.6/7.6.1) that interfered with the gameplay experience of the Mac OS X version of The Journeyman Project 3. Now that has been solved, we'll be working on getting units publicly available very soon.
I don't know how I missed this earlier, but Appletell posted their experience of running a review copy of The Journeyman Project 3 on an Intel Mac, a standard white MacBook to be exact. However, this preview also showed the playback bug faced by QuickTime 7.6 users. (since then fixed in version 7.6.2)
Why blow 250 bucks on a Wii when you can get this rare and obscure game for Mac OS 7.5 on eBay instead... and it's not even the mythical Japanese Playstation remake of The Journeyman Project! There's even a 3 month payment plan.
DVD-ROM for Mac (May 1998) - Bundled with the first Apple PowerBooks to feature a DVD-ROM drive. Supports Mac OS 8.1-9.2. Contains exactly the same graphics files as the CD-ROM version, but all the files have been consolidated onto a single DVD, eliminating disc swapping.
Anniversary DVD-ROM for Mac OS X (Jan. 2009) - Limited release supports Mac OS X 10.3.9 and later (including Intel Macs) and includes the higher-resolution remastered graphics along with other enhancements such as resolution switching and an additional easter egg. Includes manual in PDF format, but does not include MPEG-2 trailers. Release momentarily delayed pending outcome of video playback bug in QuickTime 7.6. (read on below)
MacGamer (and IMG) posted previews of the Mac OS X version of The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time that even runs on Intel Macs. A very limited number of these anniversary edition DVD-ROMs were distributed among the Presto Studios alumni.
Geno Andrews (the composer of the first Journeyman Project) and his brother Ryan have created their first iPhone app for golfers at iPitchingGuide.com. This handy program utilizes data drawn from the experience of their father, amateur golf champion Gene Andrews.
The time-traveling biosuit seen in The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time is now on display at the Science and Engineering Library in the Geisel Building at the University of California at San Diego. Read the full story from the UCSD News Center.
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