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⤏ Go to series page
Just Grandma and Me	1992
The Tortoise and the Hare	1993
The New Kid on the Block	1993
Arthur (Living Books) (series)
Harry and the Haunted House	1994
Little Monster at School	1994
Ruff's Bone	1994
Dr. Seuss (Living Books) (series)
The Berenstain Bears (Living Books) (series)
Sheila Rae, the Brave	1996
Stellaluna	1996
Maggie's Farmyard Adventure	1997

Warnings

The Windows 3.x version of this game does not work on 64-bit versions of Windows (see Availability for affected versions).

The Tortoise and the Hare is a singleplayer interactive book game in the Living Books series.

Key points

Can be played on ScummVM.^[1]

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
Mac App Store
ZOOM Platform
Steam (unavailable)		Expected to release on June 14, 2024.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2785120/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2785120/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

ScummVM 2.1+ supports cloud saves on third-party cloud storage services. See the ScummVM documentation for details.

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French				Retail only.
Japanese
Spanish

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Metal support

Executable	PPC	16-bit	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows					Windows 3.x version might be playable on a 64-bit OS using ScummVM.
macOS (OS X)
Mac OS (Classic)

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

Windows 3.x
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	3.1
Processor (CPU)	Intel i386
System memory (RAM)	4 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU)	640x480 resolution, 256 colors 512 KB of VRAM
Other	1x CD-ROM drive

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	7, 10, 11
Processor (CPU)	1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM)	2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 9.0c compatible

Mac OS
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	10.14
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)	118.9 MB

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1
Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (2785120) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Aesop's Fables: The Tortoise and the Hare - ScummVM :: Wiki - last accessed on 2019-09-23

[Proton_path_note-2] 1.0 ^1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
The app ID (2785120) may differ in some cases.
Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[2] File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.

[3] Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.

[4] The app ID (2785120) may differ in some cases.

[5] Treat backslashes as forward slashes.

[6] See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[scummvm-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Aesop's Fables: The Tortoise and the Hare - ScummVM :: Wiki - last accessed on 2019-09-23

[1]

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Developers

	Living Books
Publishers
Retail	Brøderbund
Retail	Random House
Digital	Wanderful Interactive Storybooks
Digital	Jordan Freeman Group
Engines
	Mohawk Engine^[1]
Release dates
Windows 3.x	1993
Mac OS (Classic)	1993
macOS (OS X)	April 4, 2013
Windows (ScummVM)	April 5, 2023
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Genres	Interactive book
Series	Living Books