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I am running two OSs from two different partitions, 9.0.4 on one and 9.1 on the other. Both are the Japanese version of the OS. I was wrong about CMBB running -- when I actually try to play, after the command briefing is cleared by clicking "Continue" and the game screen should appear, the whole system crashes to a gray screen, under OS 9.0.4, and under 9.1, with a type 1 error. With CMAK, under 9.0.4, I don't even get the game splash screen; the screen goes blank for a short time, then comes back gray and just stays there, with the entire system crashed. Under 9.1, double-clicking the game icon produces an immediate crash to a black screen. The above conditions apply with antialiasing off, disabling one GPU, at 800x600 resolution at the minimum refresh rate of 56 Hz and only thousands of colors, vice millions, i.e., graphics should be at their very most compatible (and thus minimum performance). Yet CMBO works fine under both OSs, with the one exception that if I use command+B to review the briefing or ESC to escape to the Finder, when I return to the game it is no longer in color, but in an eerie grayscale in which little is recognizable and the cursor acts very strangely. I guess Combat Mission just does not like the 3dfx board.

System: Mac 8600 OS 9.1, 3dfx Voodoo 5 64 MB video board Have been running CMBO with no issues whatsoever; just got CMAK and CMBB. Finally got CMBB running by adjusting anti-aliasing, but CMAK refuses to cooperate. Freezes entire system requiring reboot. Why should CMAK be so intransigent? Are there any special issues with it? I've checked all the FAQs, etc. Thanks for any help.

The CD is not broken. The system reads it. Further, I had been using a CD image all along, for months since purchasing the game, in order to preserve the original disk. I only loaded it this time because the game, not the system, refused to recognize the image; it then treated the physical CD with the same disdain. As for any extension called RAVE, there doesn't seem to be one. I'm playing on stock PowerBooks (can't put third-party video boards in PowerBooks).

I have been up to recently playing Combat Mission with no problems on my Mac PowerBook Firewire (Pismo) 500 MHz, 768 MB memory (in OS 9, unfortunately; hope things work out so it plays in OS X soon), but recently upgraded to a PowerBook Titanium G4 800 MHz, 1 G memory. When I switched over to OS 9 and inserted the Command Mission CD and started the game, however, it told me it wouldn't play without the CD present, which of course it was, right there in the drive. I'll be happy to respond to requests for amplification of the above situation, though it's pretty straightforward, as described. I'd appreciate any tech help available. Thanks.