Play Free Lotto is a small Classic Mac shareware utility built around the perennial daydream of picking a winning lottery ticket. It generates and tracks number sets for common lotto-style draws, letting the user spin off quick picks or save favorite combinations on a vintage Macintosh desktop.What it doesThe program p…
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Playground is the shared scoreboard and bones-file directory used by NetHack 3.0 on the Macintosh. Distributed as a self-extracting archive (playground.sea) on the funet Mac mirror, it provides the supporting data area that the NetHack 3.0 patch level 10 binary expects to find when it launches.Role in NetHackIn NetHack…
Plunk! is a tile-matching puzzle game by Timothy M. Brown, released in 2000 under the Black Magik Software label. Players scan the board for groups of adjacent matching tiles and click to clear them; larger groups score more, and hidden bonus tiles reward bigger combos. Built-in themes, five board sizes, and configurab…
PokerOne is a compact Macintosh poker game by Yasuhiro Kaizu, arranged for quick, easy play against computer opponents. It offers two-, three-, and four-player modes so a single user can sit down to a hand without setting up a table, and is tuned to run cleanly on mid-1990s Mac hardware.Gameplay modesThe game presents …
Polar is a Classic Mac-era shareware title preserved in the archive collection. Detailed publisher metadata for this specific entry is not available from the usual curated sources (Macintosh Garden, MobyGames, or the Info-Mac abstract index), so this page documents only what the archive itself records.About this entryT…
Polly is a HyperCard 2.3 stack that simulates, to a certain extent, a parrot. You can hold conversations with her, set her moods or let them flow on their own, feed her crackers (if you can figure out how), teach her new things to say, and more. A small, charming experiment in conversational software from the heyday of…
Polyominoes v2.0, distributed as poly2.sit in the funet ftp.funet.fi /pub/mac games archive, is a classic Mac puzzle game built around pentominoes - the twelve distinct shapes formed by joining five equal squares edge to edge. The funet index lists it simply as "Polyominoes v2.0, the game of pentomino."About pentominoe…
Released in 2002 by Mitchell Haile under the Degana label, Ponere is a Carbonized Mac puzzle game in which the player slides rows and columns of tiles to recreate a target pattern, typically a closed loop such as a circle or oval. It targets the late-Classic / early-Mac-OS-X transition window, running on Mac OS 8.6 thr…
Poon is a small classic Mac shareware game preserved in the wider archive of System 6, 7 and 8-era hobbyist titles, the kind of compact freeware or low-cost download that circulated on user-group disks, Info-Mac mirrors and shareware CD compilations of the period.Era and distributionTitles of this scale were typically …
Pork Barrel is a late-1990s shareware political simulation for the classic Macintosh from Gypsy King Software, in which the player takes the Oval Office and tries to survive a four-year term. Sex scandals, terrorist attacks, hostage crises, the federal budget, and even the Y2K bug all land on your desk; every choice ha…
Gunshy is a target-shooting arcade game by Richard Morrison of Prisim Software, released in 2000. The PowerMac build is the native PowerPC variant of the same game: players blast away at ducks and targets to score points and advance, while learning which objects - vases, the Gold Duck - they are not supposed to hit.How…
Power Toto (PowerToto 2.0.2) is a 2001 Macintosh suite from the Italian developer Tencas Group for building and analyzing betting systems for European soccer pools and lotteries. It targets Totocalcio, Totogol, Totosei, SuperEnalotto, and Lotto in Italy as well as French, Swiss, and Austrian lottery formats.This upload…
Power Toto (PowerToto 2.0.2) is a 2001 Macintosh suite from Tencas Group of Italy for building and analyzing betting systems for European soccer pool and lottery games. Supported formats include Totocalcio, Totogol, Totosei, SuperEnalotto, and Lotto in Italy plus French LotoFoot and Loto Simple, Swiss Toto-R/X and Lott…
PPC Gallery is a 1998 PowerPC-only shooting-gallery game by Japanese developer Emiko Torika, published through the Taro's Factory label. It is a deliberately compact one-trick arcade title in which the player tracks teddy-bear targets across a polygon stage and clicks them down before they shoot back, with smooth softw…
Praxis Splasher is a Macintosh activity toy that gives one- to three-year-olds a safe sandbox for getting familiar with keyboards, mice, letters, sounds, and colors. Each keypress paints a giant colorful letter, number, or symbol on a black screen and, when QuickTime is installed, plays a corresponding musical note.Wha…
Praxis Splasher is a toddler-friendly Classic Mac toy from Praxis Works that turns the keyboard and mouse into a safe, colorful playground. Aimed at one- to three-year-olds, it gives small children an early, harmless taste of the computer while shielding the rest of the system from curious fingers.How it playsEach key …
Prelude is the opening chapter of The Icthian Project, a 1998 point-and-click adventure for the Mac built by Daniel Davis at D.C. Inc. using GameMaker. Archived in Info-Mac as prelude.hqx and on Macintosh Garden as TheIcthianProject_Prelude.sit, it casts the player as a prominent scientist in 2300 AD, just back from a …
Principia is a small novelty desk accessory for the Classic Mac built around Sir Isaac Newton, written by Oscar Bascara. Drop the file into the Apple Menu Items folder inside the System Folder, or launch it directly as a stand-alone application, and a small window opens in the lower-left corner of the screen.What it do…
Progress Bars is a Classic Mac shareware utility/title preserved in the Macintosh Archive Collection. The original distribution survives as a BinHex-encoded archive sourced from the Info-Mac and funet shareware mirrors, but no extended catalog description has been confirmed for this entry.About the titleThe release pre…
Project Magellan Demo is the playable preview of Plaid World Studios' 1998 horizontal-scrolling space shoot-em-up by Chris Dillman. Posted to Info-Mac as project-magellan-demo-202.hqx in March 1998, the demo showcases the first levels of a 10-stage R-Type / Raiden 2-style arcade shooter built natively for classic Mac O…
Puzzle is a Classic Mac shareware entry preserved in the Info-Mac game archive. The catalog entry exists, but the original BinHex upload notes for a file simply named Puzzle were not located in the local Info-Mac mirror, and the Macintosh Garden lookup did not return a matching dedicated page, so this record is intenti…
PuzzleGetter is a small, single-purpose Macintosh utility by Dan Schellenberg that downloads daily crossword puzzles with a single mouse click. Each puzzle is saved in Across Lite (.puz) format into a folder of the user's choice, with the desktop as the default destination.One job, done wellThe author describes PuzzleG…
Puzzler is a 1993 Macintosh sliding-tile picture puzzle by David MacLachlan. Its hook is that any image you can open in a picture viewer can be diced up into a puzzle, with grid size used as a difficulty dial - a small grid for a quick solve, a denser one for a long evening with a familiar image.Bring your own pictureR…
Lion Entertainment and MacSoft's 1997 PowerPC port of id Software's Quake brought John Carmack's first true-3D engine to the Macintosh roughly thirteen months after the PC release, with the v1.09 patch sitting atop a v1.08 base install as the canonical Mac build that bundled GLQuake 0.97 and TCP/IP and IPX networking o…
Quark is a freeware action-puzzle game by Jean Bovet of Curvus Pro, released as version 2.0 around the early 2000s. The author calls it a "think-shoot-them-escape" game: you face waves of intelligent bugs and hostile humans across rooms of an electronic world, figuring out how to escape each level alive. This Mactrove …
Quark is a freeware action-puzzle "think-shoot-them-escape" game by Jean Bovet (Curvus Pro), released as version 2.0 around the early 2000s. This Mactrove entry corresponds to the Mac OS X build (quark-20-osx.hqx); a sibling node (quark, nid 11200) holds the parallel OS 9 build. Players battle through rooms of intellig…
Released in 1997 by Adam Winiecki of Judah Software, Querkz is a fast-paced, 3D falling-blocks puzzle game for Power Macintosh. Players line up colored blocks four-in-a-row by switching them around with paddles, set against an animated 3D environment that uses real-time camera zoom, spin, wave and shake effects, dynami…
Released as Mac shareware in 1996 by Jim Plamondon, QuickShot Deluxe is a top-down arcade shooter packaged with eighty designed levels and a level-design ethos similar to Blood Bath at Red Falls. Unregistered players are limited to five sample stages, with the remainder unlocked by paying the shareware fee.Setting and …
QuickTile is a Mahjongg-style tile-matching shareware puzzle for the Classic Mac OS, distributed via Info-Mac in the late 1990s by madams@bga.com. Its twist over traditional Mahjongg is that every tile face is a small looping animation, so the board is in constant motion as the player clears matched pairs from the stac…
Quo Vadis is a 1991 black-and-white sliding-tile puzzle for the classic Macintosh by Andrea Pellizzon. A compact implementation of the well-known Klotski puzzle, it is preserved in the Macintosh Garden archive as a small Compact Pro archive and runs cleanly across the System 6 to Mac OS 9 era under emulators such as Mi…
RAAM is a divination-style shareware program for classic Mac OS in which the user draws cards on screen to stimulate intuition and predict their own future. Released as version 1.0 by an Australian author (blakelec@ozemail.com.au), it is a small oracle/cartomancy toy rather than a conventional card game.How It WorksRAA…
Infinity Rasterizer 1.2 is a French Touch utility for the Classic Mac that renders hi-resolution screenshots of 3D models stored in Infinity MetaFiles. Output sizes can reach up to 16000 by 16000 pixels, provided the application is given enough free memory to hold the frame buffer.What it doesRasterizer takes Infinity …
Real Deal Video Poker is a Macintosh shareware video poker simulation preserved on Macintosh Garden as part of the broader card and casino category. The title belongs to the wave of single-machine gambling sims that emerged in the mid-to-late 1990s as freeware authors recreated the Las Vegas casino experience for home …
The Real Deal Video Poker (Info-Mac upload no. 2) is a late-1990s shareware video-poker simulator for the Macintosh by HGP at interaccess.com, billed in its own BinHex header as "the ultimate, most realistic game of video poker available - well, shy of Vegas, that is." Distributed as a fat 68k/PPC binary.GameplayThe Re…
Reaper Arena is a 1999 action platformer from Ryan Foltz, published by Epic Banana for classic Mac OS. Cast as a commando dispatched on top-secret missions of national security, the player threads side-on arenas full of hostile targets in short, sharp encounters built for the late-90s Macintosh hardware of the era.Comm…
Reckless Drivin' is a new action game for the Mac. It's gameplay is similar to it's predecessor, Burning Rubber, a Mac shareware game I released in 1996. In Burning Rubber one had to drive a car through 2-dimensional levels as fast as possible, leaving as much destruction as possible on the way. Reckless Drivin' follow…