Starbases and Numbers is a custom question module for All Good Things..., the freeware Star Trek trivia game by Creative Thunder and Arrowsoft. Authored by E. Maki, the module focuses entirely on the numbered starbases and other notable numerical trivia of the Trek universe and is pitched as a deliberately tough set fo…

Star Chaos is a fast-action Space Invaders-style shooter for the classic Mac, credited on Macintosh Garden to Richard Bannister and posted to Info-Mac in March 1998 as version 2.01. Players defend the solar system across a top-down sprite battlefield built on the Sprite Animation Toolkit engine.Top-Down Arcade Shooting…

Blizzard's 1998 real-time strategy benchmark pits three asymmetric races — adaptable human Terrans, swarming insectoid Zerg, and high-tech Protoss — across the 26th-century Koprulu Sector. Patch 1.15.1 is the late Mac OS X build that kept the original engine in service for over a decade of Battle.net play before Remast…

Star Patrol is a classic space-themed strategy game built specifically to take advantage of Macintosh technologies. Designed by Donald E. Carlile and released as shareware in 1988, it emphasizes strategy over arcade reflexes, presenting a continuous-action challenge that rewards planning over twitch skill.Strategy over…

Starroids7 is a Classic Mac-era shareware title preserved in the Mac Archive catalog. Detailed metadata for this entry was not available from the project's curated sources at enrichment time, so the description below is intentionally minimal pending verification from the original distribution media or a trusted seconda…

States, distributed on Info-Mac as states-3000-102-ppc.hqx, is the 1.02 build of States3000, a Macintosh shareware learning game by Ken Winograd of Space-Time Associates in Merrimack, New Hampshire. It reframes the classic hangman word-guessing format around the names of the fifty United States.Hangman With a Geography…

StonerView produces a weirdly hypnotic helix of rippling colors. The algorithm is mostly deterministic, slightly randomized, and about halfway between predictable and surprising. And, if I may say so, very beautiful. This program is entirely my creation, but it was inspired by the demo "ElectroPaint", found on SGI wor…

Stones II is a shareware game by Nathaniel Tagg. I have seen this game called Mancala, Ouare, Awele, Ayo and Kalah. I've seen it marketed under the name Arcana, and heard of a commertial version called "Sorry". I've heard it referred to as being African. Mesopotamian, East Asian, or Indian in origin, and seems to come…

Space Trek Mission 2 is an add-on scenario for Space Trek: TNG, a fan-made Star Trek: The Next Generation command simulation for Classic Mac OS. Distributed via Info-Mac by medialnk at ozemail.com.au, the mission file requires the base Space Trek application to launch and play.What it isThe download is a mission pack r…

SUMO is Stephen Linhart's surrealist arcade game, released in 1994 (v1.0.3) and re-released as freeware for personal use in 1998. The pitch on the upload sets the tone: "The fast action, constant challenge, wild and outlandish game of harmony and balance! In SUMO you are there, and there is a surrealistic, alien versio…

Sunset Over Savannah is a medium-sized text adventure by Ivan Cockrum, winner of the 1997 XYZZY Award for Best Writing. Your week-long vacation in Savannah, Georgia is ending and the dreaded job awaits, so you walk the beach one last time hoping to find something that will let you change course.PremiseThe game opens on…

super6 Pa is a Classic Mac shareware item preserved from the Info-Mac and funet mirror trees. The catalog entry was reconstructed from the BinHex archive header; no extended description, author, or version data has been independently confirmed for this title.About the titleThe release is distributed as a BinHex/StuffIt…

Super Fun Pack is a shareware compilation by K. Snyder, posted to the Info-Mac archive in March 1998. It bundles five small original games aimed at kids and adults, with registered users promised access to advanced cross-platform versions of each title.Five Games in One PackageThe pack rolls together a colorful action …

SuperKeno is a fully featured Keno program for the Macintosh by Alexandre Trottier, distributed as shareware through Info-Mac. Keno is an addictive lottery-style casino game found in casinos worldwide, and SuperKeno 2.0 brings it to the Mac with strong graphics, a polished interface, and a deep set of customisation opt…

Supermac Freecell is a 1996 Macintosh implementation of the classic FreeCell solitaire card game, written by David Bolen and released through BrBo Software. According to the FreeCell FAQ, it holds the distinction of being the first FreeCell game ever developed for the Mac platform, predating the wave of ports and clone…

Super Mac Freecell is a Macintosh implementation of the classic Freecell solitaire variant, distributed in the late 1990s through the Info-Mac archive. The Info-Mac release ships as version 1.1.1-SE from Dr. Feelgood (Mats-Ola Jonsson), with a separate 1.5.1-JP sibling also circulated for Japanese users.GameplayPlayers…

Super Othello is an implementation of Othello, or Reversi, for the Mac. It lets you play against a human opponent, your Mac or watch the Mac play against itself. You can choose from eight different levels of intelligence, ranging from beginner to super intelligent. Super Othello will also let you save and log your game…

Surgery! is a hilarious 1-to-4 player party game by Bob Grubb modeled on the classic Operation board game, in which contestants extract parts from a hapless patient without rousing him. The 3.01 release is a complete color rewrite of an older black-and-white version that circulated for years on bulletin boards and shar…

TADS (Text Adventure Development System) is an authoring toolkit for building parser-driven interactive fiction in the Infocom tradition. The Macintosh distribution archived here packages the compiler and run-time so authors can write text adventures on the Mac and play the resulting story files on the same machine.Ori…

Talisman Maker is a late-1990s shareware utility for classic Mac OS, distributed through the Paganlink Software Archive and Info-Mac as version 1.5. Despite the slug grouping it with games on Mactrove, it is a creation tool: an occult/ritual application that lets the user assemble model talismans by mixing and matching…

TAMA the Cat TAMA the Cat is a virtual cat who wanders about on your desktop. She moves around just like a real cat, for example walking, running, jumping, standing, sleeping, stretching, clawing, cleaning, clinging, skipping, hunting, fighting and so on. You can easily control her with the keypad or arrow keys. …

Tanker Rescue Squad by Gary Smith is a Macintosh math education program aimed at students in grades 4 through 8. Working alongside a printed map, centimeter ruler, and protractor, students plot the course of an on-screen rescue ship and steer it around small geometric islands to reach a foundering oil tanker before tim…

Tarot is a French-language implementation of the classic French trick-taking card game for the Classic Mac OS, written by Herve Vaudrey and released in 1995. It runs on System 7.0 through 7.6 on both 68k and PowerPC Macintoshes, and remains playable today under Basilisk II or Mini vMac II.The card gameFrench Tarot is a…

Tarot 1.0 US is the English-language release of an early Classic Mac tarot program, distributed via the Macintosh Garden shareware archive. The US suffix distinguishes this build from a separate localized release; the 1.0 version number marks it as the initial public revision. It runs as a standalone Mac application th…

TennisAce 2 by Root Solutions is a Macintosh tennis tracking application that lets players record performance against any number of opponents, then view and print statistics, court fees, prize money, and souvenir award sheets for partners. Shortcuts and customizable defaults aim to make data entry as quick as a single …

Terrain Builder is a Classic Mac shareware utility for designing maps for Stuart Cheshire's Bolo, the seminal networked tank-warfare game that defined multiplayer play on AppleTalk and early Internet-era Macs. It belongs to the same family of community map editors as BMAPEdit and BoloMap Editor that flourished in the m…

Infinity Terrain Converter 1.0 is a French Touch utility that converts WaterRace Terrain Builder files to the new Infinity MetaFile format used across French Touch tools. The new format brings optimized data organization and compressed textures over the older terrain file layout.What it doesTerrain Converter reads Wate…

Tglba (The Great Light Bulb Adventure) is a first-person adventure game for the Classic Mac OS, distributed through the Info-Mac archive. Submitted by dcdixon@mtu.edu, the release blurb pitches it modestly as an outing with okay graphics and an interesting plot, aimed at players who enjoyed the era's text-and-image puz…

The 20th Century Aerial Joust (TACS) is a 3D arcade and real-time strategy game of biplane dogfighting from Forever Games, supporting up to three players. Released in 1999 by Ben Mitchell, it pairs twitch action with squad-level tactics by giving the player a team of identically piloted biplanes to command in the air.T…

The Bitter End is a 1999 Macintosh diversion from Epic Banana, written by Gib Foltz, in which the on-screen character (also named Gib) is the perpetual victim of the player's experiments. Attack him with explosives, arrows, and assorted dangerous items, and he simply gets up and waits for more.GameplayLess a structured…

Released in 1995 and maintained for a decade by The Codebook Team, The Codebook is a Mac-native cheat code, hint, and walkthrough database for hundreds of Classic-era games. Distributed first as shareware and later as freeware with a free serial, it bundled tips for titles ranging from Myst and SimCity to Lemmings and …

The Eleventh Hour Patch is a small fix released in October 1999 by a developer using the address tempest@ecst.csuchico.edu, intended for Trilobyte's The 11th Hour, the sequel to The 7th Guest. It addresses a display problem on Macintoshes that cannot switch to a native 640x480 resolution.The Problem It SolvesOn machine…

The Fishin' Hole is a 1998 point-and-click fishing simulation for classic Mac OS by KB Productions, authored in MetaCard. It is a short, casual angling game built around the simple loop of choosing a spot, casting a line, and waiting for a catch, archived as version 1.0 on Macintosh Garden as a small StuffIt download.G…

Theldrow is a turn-based first-person RPG written in 1989 by Glenn Andreas, presented as a Sword Dream scenario by Comenius. Its interface and pixel art draw on the early Might and Magic generation, but its fantasy setting is original and its difficulty is famously steep, even by late-80s CRPG standards.DesignThe game …

Theldrowmap is a companion map for Theldrow, a turn-based first-person Macintosh role-playing game written by Glenn and released in 1989. The original game ships as a 68k application playable on classic Macs and emulators such as Mini vMac, and external maps like this one were a common way for players to chart its dung…

The Slippy Stack is a small Classic Mac game preserved in the Macintosh Garden archive. As is typical of HyperCard-era and small shareware finds, the canonical record is the original distribution package -- a BinHex-wrapped StuffIt archive aimed at System 7-class Macs and modern emulators.About the entryThe Garden's li…