Circles is an early shareware build of a small, geometry-themed Mac puzzle that later resurfaced in the better-known Circles 1.2.1 release on PowerPC. This entry preserves the original Classic Mac OS version of the game alongside its sibling for completeness in the archive.About this entryThis page covers the earlier C…
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MicroProse's 1996 sequel to Sid Meier's Civilization rebuilt the 4X formula on an isometric tile map, with sharper AI, throne-room cutscenes, and 21 playable civilizations from the Zulus to the Japanese. Designed by Brian Reynolds with Jeff Briggs and Douglas Caspian-Kaufman, it remains the most quoted entry in the ser…
Classic Gin Rummy is the Freeverse-published Gin Rummy game for Classic Mac OS, with this catalogue entry covering the later v3.0 release that targets Mac OS 8.1 through 9.x. It supersedes the earlier Soul Fry Software 1.0.x line with reworked themes, additional rule variants, and PowerPC-native code, while staying clo…
Classic Gin Themes is not a standalone game but a free theme pack for Freeverse Software's Classic Gin Rummy 3.0, bundling four downloadable theme sets that re-skin the characters, sounds and decks of the parent card game. Classic Gin Rummy 3.0 is required to use it.The themesThe pack ships four theme files: Acid Theme…
Classic Tennis is a 1988 black-and-white Macintosh sports game by Gary Dauphin, pitting you against a computer opponent in a top-down tennis match. You control the player at the bottom of the court while the computer always serves from the far side, keeping rallies fast and the rules simple.How it playsThe match uses a…
Click 'N Slide is a Mac OS 9 sliding-tile picture puzzle by Keith McLeod, distributed via the ncbuy.com download network and archived in Info-Mac as click-n-slide.hqx. The 1.1 upload manifest categorises it under Games / Puzzles / Picture and links its product page at enetwork.ncbuy.com/downloads/ntcslide.html.Gameplay…
Cloudz is a 1998 freeware arcade puzzler for Mac OS 8 and 9 by Polish hobbyist developer Adam Winiecki, built on the Screaming Cabala engine. The player navigates a small character across a sky of platforms by bouncing rather than walking, with the singular goal of avoiding a fall and reaching the level exit.GameplayMo…
Clue Deluxe is a Macintosh adaptation of the classic Hasbro/Atari murder-mystery deduction board game, in which players move through the rooms of a sprawling mansion to determine who killed Mr. Boddy, with what weapon, and in which room. The Info-Mac archive copy preserved here is the freeware Japanese-language release…
Clue Deluxe Bw is the black-and-white sibling release of the Macintosh edition of Clue Deluxe, the computerized version of Hasbro's classic murder-mystery board game. This build trades the color presentation of its companion release for a one-bit palette suited to early compact Macs and other monochrome displays.About …
Clue Deluxe HC is a HyperCard adaptation of the classic detective board game, written by Harley N. Bradley and distributed through the Info-Mac archive. The single-player stack casts you as the detective working through a rotating set of scenarios to identify the murderer, the weapon, and the room.GameplayPer the autho…
Colonisation is an original 1999 top-down strategy game by Alain Paschoud for 68k and PowerPC Macintosh, despite the familiar name it is unrelated to Sid Meier's Colonization. Players carve cities out of mixed terrain of land, mountain, and sea, then field tanks, destroyers, and aircraft against rival settlements.Build…
Color by Number v1.2 is Lucy24's adventure title for the Macintosh, archived to Info-Mac as color-1.hqx. It is a sequel-of-sorts to her earlier game The Tower: another abandoned building by the same architect, built for a cheapskate this time, so do not expect twelve-foot-thick walls or hidden staircases - just probabl…
Columns ][ is a single-player falling-block puzzler for the Classic Mac OS by Chris Christensen of Elegant Solutions, released in 1992. Players manipulate stacks of patterned tiles as they descend, trying to line up sequences of three matching boxes horizontally, vertically, or diagonally to clear them from the well.Ga…
Connect is a shareware Connect 4 game for the Macintosh and Power Macintosh, released by Miles Michelson at version 1.1.8. It offers a clean implementation of the classic four-in-a-row game with nice graphics, a challenging computer opponent for all ages, and several configurable options that go beyond the standard boa…
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Continuum is a 1987 physics-driven arcade game for the original Macintosh, written by Randy Wilson with art and encouragement from his brother Brian Wilson. Sometimes described as "asteroids in a maze with gravity," it pairs a thrust-and-rotate ship with smooth-scrolling cavern levels and a remarkably tight feel for a …
Core! v1.00 is a Macintosh implementation of Core War, the classic programming game in which two or more assembly-language "warriors" battle for control of a virtual computer's memory. Distributed as the funet shareware archive entry core100.sit under games/, it brings the long-running Core War tradition to the classic…
Country House is a 2001 illustrated interactive fiction title by Eva Vikstrom, built with the StoryMaker engine for classic Mac OS. The work is set in eighteenth-century Sweden and is described as historically credible in environment and characters, with research and exploration favored over puzzle mechanics or combat.…
Course is a 1998 Mac shareware horse-racing wagering game by Renaud Pinoit, preserved on Macintosh Garden under the Racing/Sports category. The game pits the player against the Macintosh or a friend in a series of wagers on French-style horse races, with each match running up to twelve races.French betting formatsCours…
Cpav is an obscure Classic Mac OS title preserved in the Macintosh Garden archive. Limited public documentation survives for it: catalog metadata identifies the file but no detailed description, author bio, or contemporary review has been recovered, so this entry sticks to what the archive itself records.What we knowTh…
SpiderweBB has officially released CraftGen version 3.0. This utility randomly generates an unlimited number of scenarios for WarCraft II by Blizzard Entertainment. Version 3.0 brings not only new features to an already versatile program, but it also is being released on the Mac platform for the first time.
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Cricket is a first-person batting simulation by Graham Randall that brings the gentleman's game to the Classic Mac. Players step into the shoes of a batsman, facing fast and spin bowlers across a series of overs while computer-controlled umpires, fielders, and a roaring crowd round out the on-field action.GameplayThe v…
CrossCards is a 1997 shareware game from Freeverse Software, written by Andrew Trevorrow (also known for Wireworld and Golly). It is a card-and-board hybrid for up to four players: you build poker hands on a crossword-style grid, scoring each row and column you complete. Released originally for System 6-8, then carboni…
Crossword Puzzle Thing (CWPT) is a shareware crossword generator for PowerPC Macs by David T. Palmer of UC San Diego. The program builds crossword puzzles algorithmically while letting the user step in interactively to refine the layout, swap entries, or otherwise customize the result before solving or printing.Interac…
Cryptograms! is a Macintosh puzzle program from Country Road Software that lets you create and solve encoded quotations in an attractive, intuitive format. Authored by high school English teacher Mark Jordan, it sits alongside its siblings Anacrostics! and Droplines! as a quotation-driven word puzzle suite for classroo…
Crystal, archived on Info-Mac as Crystalball 3.0.6, is a Dungeons and Dragons utility for Macintosh dungeon masters running 3rd Edition campaigns. It bundles a random treasure generator, an experience award calculator, character and monster generators, and a combat tracker into a single tool aimed at speeding play at t…
Published by Ambrosia Software in August 1999 for Classic Mac OS, Cythera is a top-down isometric single-player role-playing game written by Glenn Andreas and built on his custom scriptable Delver engine. Styled overtly after the Ultima series and Spiderweb's Exile games, it casts the player as a stranger washed up on …
Daily Tarot 2.0 is a Power Mac native tarot reading application by Doug Musto, a graphically intense follow-up to the popular Daily Tarot 1.1 from 1995. It draws from a fully rendered, original color tarot deck and produces daily readings focused on the major areas of life: love, money, and work.What it doesThe program…
Daleks ET 2.0 is a Macintosh implementation of the classic Daleks chase puzzle, written by Jeremy and distributed through the Info-Mac archive. Stupid robots pursue the player across a 640x480 grid, and a little strategy can make them collide and self-destruct, turning expensive machinery into satisfying piles of rubbl…
Daodejing is a 1998 Macintosh application by David Jenuwine that displays random verses from Laozi's Dao De Jing in a dedicated window. Hovering the mouse across Chinese characters along the left edge cycles through different passages, turning the program into a contemplative random-verse viewer rather than a strict di…
Delta Tao Software's 1994 colorization of Silicon Beach's 1986 Dark Castle rewrites the original from the assembly up, keeps Mark Stephen Pierce's hand-drawn rooms and Jonathan Gay's mouse-and-keyboard controls, and paints them in 256 colors. The job is to climb the keep, throw rocks at everything that moves, and final…
Dart Board is a 1997 Macintosh sports shareware title by Jim Plamondon that turns the desktop into a virtual dart lane. Players throw darts at a digital board with the mouse, choose between six game modes, and can swap in any PICT image to use as a custom target, including the bundled novelty boards of U.S. politicians…
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Darts ScoreKeeper is a HyperCard-based scoring utility for Macintosh aimed at dart league enthusiasts. Written by Harley Bradley and distributed under the MagicHat Shareware banner, it tracks player shots and statistics, prints stats on demand, manages team scores, detects busts, and announces which team has won each g…
David's Backgammon is a shareware implementation of the classic dice-and-checkers race game for the Classic Mac OS, authored by David Byrum and distributed through bestbackgammon.com. The unregistered build runs as a feature-limited demo, allowing players to complete roughly half of any given game before prompting for …