25thSquare is a Classic Mac-era game preserved in this archive. Detailed metadata for this title was not available from primary curator sources at the time of cataloging, so the entry below records only what can be verified from the archive itself. Additional research notes are welcome from the community.About this ent…

3D Brick Bash is a 1993 Macintosh shareware arcade game by Matthew Diamond that reimagines the classic Breakout formula in three dimensions. The player controls a paddle to keep a ball in play, knocking it into a wall of bricks and trying to prevent it from reaching the floor as it ricochets through the playfield.Gamep…

3D Brick Bash is Matthew Diamond's 1993 take on Breakout for the Classic Mac, swapping the flat 2D playfield for a dimensional perspective in which the ball travels away from the paddle into a receding wall of bricks. Released as Mac shareware, it targets 68k systems through Mac OS 9.GameplayPlayers slide a paddle to d…

3D Klondike is a 1998 shareware solitaire game from Freeverse Software, built on a tweaked Burning Monkey Solitaire engine and styled around the original Bondi-blue iMac. It plays standard Klondike, but rims the table with clickable, pre-rendered 3D characters who heckle, joke, and toss cream pies as you flip cards.Gam…

3D Tic-Tac-Toe 1.0.6 is a Macintosh take on noughts-and-crosses played in three-dimensional perspective, written by John Lindal at Caltech and posted to Info-Mac in October 1992. The board is rendered as a stack of grids, and players try to line up marks across rows, columns, columns of cubes, and the long diagonals.Ga…

8-Ball Emulator is a 1993 Macintosh shareware desk toy by Scott Knudsen that puts a small pool table on the screen and lets the user shoot the balls down the holes. It is a tiny shooting-pool simulator rather than a Magic 8-Ball oracle, with simple aim and shot controls aimed at coffee-break play.GameplayClick and drag…

8 Ball v1.3 is a freeware HyperCard stack by Chad Kluck that recreates the infamous Magic 8 Ball fortune-telling toy on the classic Mac. Ask the stack a yes-or-no question, give it a shake, and a familiar floating reply surfaces from the murky window. It is a tiny, charming desk-accessory style diversion built entirely…

Absolute Stocks 1.5 is a stock market simulator for the classic Mac OS, written by Randy Jarrell of Splinter Software and distributed via the Info-Mac archive. Players buy and sell stocks, view price history, and try to grow a starting bankroll of 10,000 dollars into a million, all through a point-and-click interface.G…

ACE! 1.8.2 is a freeware extendable save game editor for Macintosh, written by Richard Drysdall (drysdall@crosswinds.net). It allows players to edit the save game documents (referred to as "characters" by some games) created by many commercial and shareware Mac titles, and to print details of those saves.What It EditsA…

A Day At Work is a small Macintosh shareware title from Gib Foltz, released under the Epic Banana label that produced a string of quirky, low-budget Mac games in the late 1990s. It casts the player into the everyday tedium of an office, played for laughs in the irreverent Epic Banana house style.Epic Banana lineageEpic…

This package is the Question Module Maker (QMM) updater for All Good Things 3.0, released by Creative Thunder and ArrowSoft (thunder@king.igs.net). All Good Things is a Macintosh adventure-game authoring system in the Adventure Game Toolkit (AGT) lineage, and the bundled Question Module Maker had stability problems the…

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Alan's Euchre is a 1998 Mac implementation of the classic trick-taking card game by Alan Ewalt of Ewalt Enterprises. It is played with a 24-card deck (9 through Ace in each suit) by four players forming two teams, with the first side to reach 10 points winning the match.How Euchre PlaysEach hand, partners must win at l…

Alan's Euchre is a 1998 Macintosh implementation of the classic four-player trick-taking card game by Alan Ewalt of Ewalt Enterprises. Played with a 24-card deck of 9s through Aces, two teams of two race to ten points by winning hands of five tricks each.How Euchre PlaysEach hand consists of three events: bidding for t…

Alan's Solitaire is a 1997 collection of card and casino solitaire games for classic Macintosh, written by Alan Ewalt and published by Ewalt Enterprises. This "sibling" entry preserves a related variant or build alongside the main release in the Macintosh Garden archive.About the gameAlan's Solitaire packages several s…

Computer Systems Odessa's Alchemist is a 2000 Mac puzzle game built around an isometric board, a stack of coloured vials, and the pattern-matching satisfaction of making things vanish. Players take vials one at a time, place them on the board, and try to recreate the displayed target pattern before they run out of room…

Alien Conspiracy is a side-scrolling shooter built with Apple's Cocoa framework, distributed via Info-Mac by Ryan Foltz of Epic Banana. The player controls a spy infiltrating a crashed alien craft in the desert, juggling mission objectives like recovering crash coordinates and planting a bomb at the ship's core.A Cocoa…

ALLOUT is a Mac OS 9 puzzle game in the Lights Out tradition, version 1.1, by Keith McLeod and distributed through NCBuy. Hosted in-game by Lew, the cartoon mascot of NCBuy's Down to Earth strip, it challenges players to switch off every light on a grid using a chain of toggling clicks.How it playsClick any piece on th…

Al Morale Demo is the sample release of Al Morale, a tongue-in-cheek desktop companion that places a tiny virtual yes-man in a cube on your screen. Contributed to Info-Mac by tbodine@primenet.com, the program showers you with flattery, addresses you by glorified titles and laughs at your jokes while you work.What Al Do…

Alvoune is an obscure 1.0 puzzle-game distributed through the Info-Mac archive by a Swedish author writing as "Pandaa" (pandaa@swipnet.se). The premise is straightforward: the player eliminates squares from a board, working through a tile-clearing logic puzzle in the same broad family as Same Game and other 1990s share…

FAQ is an acronym for Frequently Asked Questions. This FAQ is an attempt to provide a comprehensive source of information about Ambrosia Software, Inc., and was created in response to questions that are frequently raised by our customers. We hope you find it useful. If there are any questions you have about Ambrosia t…

Anacrostics 1.21, by M. Jordan, is a Macintosh shareware tool for building anacrostic (acrostic) puzzles. Anacrostics are crossword-like puzzles in which the solver recovers a quotation: letters answered in a list of clues are transferred into a numbered grid that, read left to right, spells out the hidden quote.What i…

Anubis Casino is a 1999 PowerPC Macintosh shareware title from Anubis, Inc. that bundles seven popular casino table games into a single application. Players can move between Baccarat, BlackJack, Caribbean Stud Poker, Casino War, Craps, Pai-Gow Poker, and Roulette from one common interface, with per-user preferences for…

A Simple Grass Simulator (ASGS) is a 1999 freeware curio by Sebastian Brytting that does exactly what its name promises: it simulates grass. A cow wanders the field eating it, with flowers, pumpkins, and the occasional alien thrown in. The author bills it as a meditation program suitable for hours of idle viewing.Conce…

Ashcan is a 1998 naval simulation by Jerry Fritschle in which the player commands a destroyer hunting a submerged submarine. Hydrophones reveal the sub's position on the surface, but the depth must be deduced through trial and error before depth charges can be dropped on target.GameplayEach round gives the player ten d…

ATC is a Macintosh port of the classic Unix air-traffic control simulator that originated on BSD systems in the 1980s. The player works a radar scope, issuing altitude, heading, and approach instructions to a steady stream of inbound and outbound aircraft, guiding each one to its assigned exit or airport without lettin…

ATC Sim is a freeware Air Traffic Control simulator for the Macintosh in which the player works a single sector of UK controlled airspace. Aircraft enter the player's sector along real published airways, and the controller is responsible for sequencing them along the correct routes into and out of the major airports th…

Auto Painter is a Classic Mac OS shareware utility distributed through community archives such as the Info-Mac collection. As the name suggests, it provides automated painting or image-generation routines for the Macintosh, joining the long tradition of small graphics tools that flourished on the platform during the 19…

Juri Munkki's September 1996 release for Ambrosia Software is a network-first first-person mech shooter, built around bipedal combat robots called HECTORs and a fast custom 3D engine that ran playably from Helsinki to California over 28.8k modems. Levels were drawn in ClarisWorks; up to six players fought free-for-all …

Awale is a Macintosh implementation of one of Africa's oldest board games, a member of the wider Mancala family also known as Awele, Wari, and Oware. Published by Myriad Software (Didier and Olivier Guillion) and reaching version 2.2.2c in the late 1990s, it lets players face the computer or a human across thirteen pre…

aWorm is a single- or two-player worm game for the Classic Mac, built by Toni Laaveri under the Serpent Software banner and released as $10 shareware in 1999. It updates the Nibbles formula with thirty-plus levels of dot-eating action, colorful graphics, and stereo sound effects.Sam and SalPlayers guide worms named Sam…

Babel, Release 3.1, is a shareware text adventure by Ian Finley, distributed for Macintosh in an Inform-style interpreter package and submitted to Info-Mac by Andrew Plotkin (erkyrath@eblong.com). The download is free; players who enjoy it are asked to register for to Illuminated Design in Salt Lake City, Utah.About t…

Baby Games is a small mid-1990s Macintosh shareware collection of keyboard-and-mouse activities aimed at infants and toddlers. Distributed in the BabyGames 1.1.1, 2.0 and 2.0.2 builds that turn up on UK Mac magazine cover CDs and in the Internet Archive's vintage Mac shareware sets, it sits in the same lineage as later…

BabyLabyrinth 1.0.5+ is a gentle freeware black-and-white maze game for very young children, written by Italian developer Simone Bettini. There are no scores, no enemies, and no violence - just a small chosen character wandering a labyrinth, collecting cakes and toys, and bumping into walls with funny sound effects.How…

Backgammon is a freeware classic-Mac implementation of the ancient board game, written by David Young and published by Solosoft, with version 2.01 circulating on the Info-Mac archive. It includes a built-in computer opponent so a single player can sit down and play, and its compact black-and-white presentation keeps it…

Backgammon Lite v1.2 is a freeware Classic Mac program by alois at conestoga.net that lets two players play backgammon on a single Macintosh. There is no computer opponent and no built-in dice, so a real pair of dice and a printed rule sheet are needed to round out the experience.Two-player onlyThe program is strictly …