Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic ships for the Mac
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy author Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic game is now available for the Apple Macintosh.
Simon & Schuster Interactive and Adams' company, The Digital Village, initially shipped the $39.95 game in a PC-only version.
Starship Titanic introduces an advanced language processor, allowing users to conduct extensive conversations with the game's central characters.
The language engine features SpookiTalk, a proprietary parser tool that draws on more than 16 hours of recorded dialogue and a library of more than 10,000 popular references.
Minimum system requirements for the Mac version of Starship Titanic are a Power Mac, 32 Mb RAM, and 160MB of free disk space. The Digital Village is online at http://www.tdv.com . Simon & Schuster Interactive is located at www.ssinteractive.com .
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