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Myst, the phenomenally popular computer game made by Spokane’s Cyan Worlds, has been adapted for Pocket PC and personal digital assistant by another Spokane company, Mean Hamster Software. The job entailed taking about 600 megabytes of pictures, sound and complexity and shrinking it to 26 megabytes.

Next up: Riven, the sequel to Myst.

Read more about Mean Hamster’s feat in a story by Tom Sowa Monday.

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