{"id":3853,"date":"2018-04-28T13:39:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T11:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.islandwalking.com\/wordpress\/?p=3853"},"modified":"2018-04-29T07:21:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T05:21:39","slug":"the-riven-journals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.islandwalking.com\/wordpress\/the-riven-journals\/","title":{"rendered":"The Riven Journals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1997 a great and ingenious website (at the time) appeared. It was &#8220;the Riven Journals&#8221;, a preview of &#8220;Riven&#8221;, the sequel to the famous &#8220;Myst&#8221; game. I really had no idea a functional website restoring this old site still exists. It is a challenge playing this preview today as the original &#8220;Journals&#8221; relied on Java applets for the puzzels. I have however discovered that on an old Mac running Mac OS 10.4, and using Safari 5.1.10, the game is completely functional (more screenshots will follow in a later post):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.islandwalking.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Skjermbilde-2018-04-28-kl.-12.56.36.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3854\" src=\"https:\/\/www.islandwalking.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Skjermbilde-2018-04-28-kl.-12.56.36-1024x640.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.islandwalking.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Skjermbilde-2018-04-28-kl.-12.56.36-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.islandwalking.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Skjermbilde-2018-04-28-kl.-12.56.36-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/www.islandwalking.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Skjermbilde-2018-04-28-kl.-12.56.36-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/www.islandwalking.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Skjermbilde-2018-04-28-kl.-12.56.36.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.islandwalking.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Skjermbilde-2018-04-28-kl.-12.58.19.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3864\" src=\"https:\/\/www.islandwalking.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Skjermbilde-2018-04-28-kl.-12.58.19-1024x640.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.islandwalking.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Skjermbilde-2018-04-28-kl.-12.58.19-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.islandwalking.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Skjermbilde-2018-04-28-kl.-12.58.19-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/www.islandwalking.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Skjermbilde-2018-04-28-kl.-12.58.19-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/www.islandwalking.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Skjermbilde-2018-04-28-kl.-12.58.19.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1997 a great and ingenious website (at the time) appeared. It was &#8220;the Riven Journals&#8221;, a preview of &#8220;Riven&#8221;, the sequel to the famous &#8220;Myst&#8221; game. I really had no idea a functional website restoring this old site still exists. It is a challenge playing this preview today as the original &#8220;Journals&#8221; relied &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.islandwalking.com\/wordpress\/the-riven-journals\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.islandwalking.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.islandwalking.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.islandwalking.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.islandwalking.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.islandwalking.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3853"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.islandwalking.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3865,"href":"https:\/\/www.islandwalking.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853\/revisions\/3865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.islandwalking.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.islandwalking.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.islandwalking.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}