Using 12 Chairs Interactive with Mac OS X

These instructions replace the installation instructions for Mac OS users that come with the 12 Chairs Interactive discs. Do not use the installer on disc Part 2.

1. Download our font Writer. Other Cyrillic fonts for Mac OS may be only partially useful with 12 Chairs Interactive.
2. If the compressed hqx font file is not automatically uncompressed, double-click it. You should now have file Writer.1 with a typical Mac OS font icon (capital A).
3. On your Macintosh start-up drive (usually called Macintosh HD), open the folder called Library and locate the folder called Fonts within it. There are several folders called Library on your Macintosh, and each may have a subfolder called Fonts, so be sure you open the Library that starts at the root of the drive.
4. Drag file Writer.1 into the Fonts folder. You have now finished installing our font Writer.

You may use 12 Chairs Interactive with Safari, the Web browser that comes with Mac OS X, but you'll get better results with Mozilla or Netscape Navigator. With Safari, you won't see accented vowels in the Russian texts.

• With Safari (we use version 1.2.3):
1. Start Safari and click Preferences in the Safari menu
2. Click Appearance and under Defauls Encoding, select Cyrillic (Mac OS).
3. Click the Select button for Standard font.
4. In the Font window, select All Fonts, Writer, and an appropriate font size, see below.
   
5. Close the Font and Appearance windows.
6. Insert any of the 12 Chairs CD-ROMs in the drive.
7. Click Safari's File menu and select Open File.
8. In the Open window, navigate to the 12 Chairs CD-ROM and locate file macstart.htm, see below.
   
9. Click Open.
10. In Safaris' View menu, select Text Encoding, then Cyrillic (Mac OS). The page should reload (you may have to click OK). You should now see a display similar to this. Make a bookmark for later use.
    
• With Mozilla (we use version 1.7.2):
1. Click the Mozilla menu, select Preferences, then Appearance, and set font Writer to be your Proportional Serif font for the User Defined encoding. Other font settings are not relevant.
   
2. Close Preferences and use Mozilla's File menu to open file macstart.htm as described above for Safari. Select the User Defined encoding from Mozilla's View menu, and you should see a display similar to this. Note the accented a in the glossary pane. Make a bookmark for future use.
   
• With Netscape Navigator (we use version 7.2):
  The setup, use, and results with Netscape Navigator are practically identical to those for Mozilla, above.