I have to admit, I thought I was getting somewhere initially, but actually I haven't gotten anywhere: I tried running this using Wine on Linux, and it actually works (there's no sound, as suggested by the menus, but I didn't get any trying it on a Windows box afterwards either.) There's one difference between the Wine/Linux play and playing on Windows: the laptop screen looks like this . I thought I was being clever in having figured out that there was an off-by-one code there, and that the words were ENTER CODE, until I played it on Windows and realized that that was not actually part of the game, but some Wine randomness. The actual code, I'm still stuck on. I'm curious about the rest of the game still!