Haha, well I did the same thing! I got the 10th collection (which are my second versions of myst and riven, and my third of exile). Yeah, I would just try and find a copy of the original.
Yeah, just go with the original. You can probably find it in a bargain bin somewhere for like five bucks. It is just ironic that myst masterpiece is supposed to work with xp, but it doesn't, but the original myst which was made for windows 3.1 works fine.
Oh, and if you were wondering, I played through masterpiece on windows 2k and the game is almost exactly the same as the original, just with an added solution system. You can get those online anyway. They supposedly "remastered" the sound and video, but it was pretty much the same to me.
I am having the exact same problem. I tried the patch, but that doesn't work. I ended up installing the original cd of myst. Seems like the very original made in 93 works on xp without any compatibility stuff set up, but the one that supposedly has full xp functionality doesn't work at all. All I had to do was set it to run in 256 colors and it ran fine.
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