ROTK5 for Mac OS X (PowerPC)

Romance of the Three Kingdoms V (KOEI, 1996, Japanese) and its Power-Up Kit:
the MP3 editions made for Mac OS 9, as Mac OS X applications. They run on
Mac OS X 10.4 on a PowerPC Mac, without the Classic environment.

To play
  Keep this folder together, anywhere on a disk you can write to: the game
  saves into S5DATA and PKDATA. Open ROTK5 for the base game, or ROTK5 PUK
  for the Power-Up Kit.

    ROTK5, ROTK5 PUK           the two games
    S5DATA, PKDATA, PKMOVIE    their data, and the Power-Up Kit's movies
    Music                      the soundtrack, track02.mp3 to track21.mp3

  In the File menu, the first item (Hide Desktop) blacks out the screen
  behind the game, and the Dock steps aside. The last one quits, as does
  Quit in the application menu.

What is inside each application
  The game's own PowerPC code and resources, unchanged from the Mac OS 9
  MP3 edition (Contents/Resources/game.pef and game.rsrc), and a small
  Mac OS X program that loads that code and stands in for the Mac OS 9
  Toolbox it calls: a 256-colour screen with its palette fades inside an
  ordinary window, the game's way of drawing kanji, its menus and dialogs
  in Japanese whatever the system's language. QuickTime plays the music.

  Saves are the same files, in the same format, as on Mac OS 9.

Revision 3 of the Mac OS X program (2026-10-12)
  An envoy's audience that now and then opened with an empty window, and
  stood so for most of a minute before the scene went on, opens at once.
  Battles left to the computer take about 30% less time. The game and
  its files are unchanged; so are saved games.

If something goes wrong
  ~/Library/Logs/ROTK5.log (or "ROTK5 PUK.log") is written at each start
  and records a crash, should there be one.

The game is (C) 1996 KOEI CO., LTD. This is a private working copy.
2026-10-11