Bloodygoodgames: Played it when it originally came out and it was one of my favorite games I'd played back then.
Awesome game, definitely belongs on GOG.
Yes, it belongs on GOG!!!
I bought this back when it came out and it has had great reviews. It was a creative game with a good story and puzzles. I don't maintain old PC's, don't want to bother with VM, and prefer a turnkey solution on my convenient laptop, which has become a desktop replacement. I would love to play this on my Win7 84 bit machine. Obsidian doesn't like 64 bit.
Someone has made a patch for Obsidian for Win 7 64 bit:
http://archive.adventuregamers.com/forums/showthread.php?p=600049 - it is at the SierraHelp site...
HOWEVER that patch may have been polluted by someone else, because it redflags at both virustotal as well as my own scanners as Cloud 9 which (if it is not a false positive, which I don't want to find out personally) is a very tricky nasty trojan, so I chose to not try it - I'm so sad.
So yeah, I wish GOG would be able to license and port this to newer Windows.
Technote for software heads:
I read that Obsidian was made for Windows using mTropolis, which was perhaps the first multimedia authoring tool used in the games and educational software field that effectively and robustly used visually-oriented object technology - reusable, drag & drop elements, libraries, behaviors, all kinds of stuff, plus it was web browser and internet capable. This was bleeding edge stuff in those days. In 1998 mTropolis was acquired but then cancelled in 1999 because the (loudly protesting) user base was not large enough, and Adobe was the big gorilla in market presence & deep pockets in the multimedia authoring field (albeit with a less technically superior product) at the time. Sounds familiar.