Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders playthrough and hints

Huh? You should’ve seen my notes for Her Story. :stuck_out_tongue:

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I’ve started playing!

Epic intro and funky music. I like the dream sequence :smile: I’m making notes already!

Anyone know how to toggle away from Scumm on a Mac? Cmd-tab doesn’t work and Google doesn’t help. I can’t remember how I did it before…

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I have a deja vu…? :wink:

Which version do you play?

Alt-tab?

You can also turn off the fullscreen mode in the options. I’ve done that so I can keep an eye on this forum. :wink: If you need help with that, drop me a note.

I don’t have a Mac…
But did you have a look here?
http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/User_Manual/Playing_a_game_with_ScummVM#Hotkeys

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DOS.

Nope.

Aha, Alt-Enter toggles between full and minimised screen so I’ll use that. Thanks.

That’s exactly what I wanted it for :wink:

go away Discourse

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Maybe you would like to scale the windows size (depending on your display size) with Ctrl-Alt-+.

Oh, and make sure you hit ALT-F5 instead of F5 at least once (also in MM, in hindsight), to admire the original load/save screens!

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I need a hint. :wink: I’m in Seattle. This time I would like to keep the squirrel alive. I can give the squirrel the peanuts only once. All other things I’ve tried kill the squirrel. Can someone give me a hint how I to let the squirrel alive?

Thanks – I’ll probably just toggle back and forth.

Hm, that didn’t work. In fact I’ve just turned voiceover on, ha.

Ah yes!

you need to scare them away. Keep all stick-like object far away!
My memory is a bit hazy, but perhaps you can also substitute another object for what you want to get there

I’ll try later and correct back

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Dude!

:open_mouth:

Yes, that was my idea too. :slight_smile: But I haven’t found a proper solution yet.

Well, the more I think of it…

you can get the blue crystal with the squirrel still alive. So I think that instead of taking the squirrel’s nest, you need to get the abandoned birds nest

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Ah, of course! Now I remember. :slight_smile: I overlooked that in the FM Towns version. Thanks!

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Well, this slightly irks me. The wire cutters open the floorboard? I don’t see how that would work…

Where are you (in which room)?

The bedroom, Brother in the Thimbleweed Phone Company.

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You can open that floorboard with different objects. :). I would guess that the wire cutters are (mis-)used as a crowbar. So don’t worry and/or wonder too much. But you should keep in mind that you can use some of the objects in several situations.

Hm. I picked up the phone and then read the newspaper stuff about stupidity spreading through the tone. Do I need to restart? :neutral_face: