A free archive of classic Macintosh software & documentation.

Inscape's November 28, 1995 CD-ROM, written and directed by avant-garde collective the Residents and animated by Jim Ludtke, drops you into a sun-bleached roadside carnival where a coma victim, a serial killer, plague, and the IRS are all converging on the same eleven hours. You start as ten-year-old Timmy and can hop …

Blades of Exile is Spiderweb Software's 1997 RPG and scenario construction kit by Jeff Vogel, the fourth Exile title. This upload represents a later distribution of the game (likely a Carbon-era or post-2007 open-source build), packaging the Exile III engine with three official scenarios and the tools to author and pla…

Pop Rocket's November 1995 CD-ROM, designed by Spaceship Warlock and Radiskull and Devil Doll creator Joe Sparks, casts you as a freelance music-video producer who has just paid an alien for a one-way trip to the Distortion Dimension, a parallel universe of guitar-shredding pop ephemera. You run a satellite studio, hun…

Rocket Science Games and SegaSoft's five-CD adventure, released January 10, 1997 on Windows and May 13 on Mac, sets you down in the year 2066 as nanotech engineer Lilah Kerlins, asleep in a tent next to a black mountain that should not exist. The mountain is what is left of Ceres, an atmospheric repair satellite that h…

Synergy Inc.'s 1993 Japanese interactive movie, expanded by Cryo Interactive into the 1997 four-CD Past as Future edition, drops you into a dieselpunk dictatorship where streamlined trains, brass instrument panels, and 1930s flying machines are state-of-the-art tomorrow tech. You play a government agent hunting the mis…

Glider 4.0 is John Calhoun's side-scrolling arcade game in which the player pilots a paper airplane through the rooms of a house, riding lift from heater vents while dodging tables, shelves, balloons, and rival gliders. It is the first commercial release in the Glider series and the direct predecessor to Glider PRO.Gam…

Cliff Johnson's 1987 puzzle classic casts you as the Fool wandering a Tarot-themed kingdom, weaving short story chapters together with dozens of inset puzzles. Solving acrostics, jigsaws, and cryptograms gradually reveals a hidden meta-puzzle, the Book of Thoth, that ties the whole narrative together.Story and structur…

Delta Tao Software's Spaceward Ho! is the classic Macintosh 4X strategy game that drops you into a sprawling galaxy with one mandate: explore and colonize. First released in 1990 and patched through version 4.0.3 by 1995, it became a touchstone of streamlined empire-building on the Mac.Galactic 4X, distilledYou guide a…

The Manhole is an open-ended children's adventure created by Rand and Robyn Miller at Cyan, Inc. and released in November 1988 for the black-and-white Macintosh. Built entirely in HyperCard with HyperTalk, it lets players lift a manhole cover and wander a beanstalk-fed world of whimsical locales. It is the foundational…

Osamu Sato's 1994 first-person point-and-click adventure, published by Sony Music Entertainment Japan, casts the player as Rin on the soul-eating island of Tong Nou, a landmass shaped like a human head modeled on Sato's own. Borrowing an artificial soul good for 49 days, Rin must complete nine missions, dying and reinc…

Take-Two Interactive's February 1995 graphic adventure, published by GameTek, adapts Tri Tac Games' paranormal-investigation tabletop RPG into a point-and-click party game where the player picks two of six agents - Priest, Hacker, Witch, Thief, Vampire, and Mech - and assigns each character's specialty to puzzle soluti…

The Tinies is a 1992 Sokoban-style puzzle game for the Macintosh by French studio Atreid Concept, published by Inline Design and later by Kalisto. Players guide a troop of small, hairy creatures from the planet Sklumph back to color-coded sleep pods scattered across one hundred increasingly devious levels.PremiseThe Ti…