David's Hell is a six-level user-made level group for Lode Runner: The Legend Returns, contributed to the Info-Mac archive by David A. Villa (DAV@mail.utexas.edu). The pack is explicitly designed for two-player cooperative or competitive play and is positioned by its author as a step away from the traditional Lode Runn…
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Dead End is Wolfgang Thaller's block-pushing maze puzzler for the Macintosh, later expanded into DeadEnd 3D. The player navigates stone-walled mazes by shoving massive blocks out of the way to clear a path to the exit, but a single block pushed in the wrong direction can permanently seal the way out.GameplayEach level …
Deathly Duel is a 2000 side-scrolling sword-fighting game from Spilled Software, programmed by Alexander Wallace and distributed through Info-Mac. The pitch is exactly as the developer's own abstract puts it: "Grab a sword and slash your opponent to bits with this fun side-scroller dueling game."GameplayTwo armed fight…
Den Lilla Roda Vagnen ("The Little Red Wagon") is the Swedish-language Macintosh edition of a children's educational title from the international Little Fingers series, released and localised by Bosse Jarnhall at Dr. Feelgood as part of an ongoing 1990s effort to bring quality children's software to Swedish-speaking ho…
CoDi-1 is an addition to the DeskBots family of desktop companions for the classic Mac OS, and the first DeskBot to offer genuine functionality beyond chatter. Distributed as a free add-on for registered DeskBots users, it requires the main DeskBots 1.6 application to load this personality.What it doesCoDi behaves like…
DeskBot NEMO is a free add-on character for the DeskBots desktop-companion family from Black Magik Software, contributed by griffin@twcny.rr.com. It ships as a new robot personality with a deliberately retro visual treatment, fresh sound effects, and over one hundred new spoken phrases.Role in the DeskBots lineNEMO is …
DeskBots is a shareware Mac desktop companion that puts a wisecracking, talking robot on your screen using Apple's PlainTalk Text-to-Speech. The bots greet you by name, dispense "helpful" advice, warn of impending doom, and generally do everything they can to distract you from real work.Cast of botsThe base DeskBots 1.…
Deskbots Phrase Editor is a small companion utility to the Deskbots desktop-toy package for the classic Mac OS. Where Deskbots itself populates the desktop with little animated characters that speak and react, the Phrase Editor is the authoring side of that experience: a tool for editing the lines of text the bots draw…
Desktop Pets is a small classic Mac novelty in the lineage of Neko: it turns the Finder desktop into a playground for animated creatures that scamper across windows and chase the cursor. Released by Kreative Software for PowerPC Macs around 2001, it is a lightweight desk accessory rather than a full game.What it doesOn…
Desktop Pets is a small Mac novelty by Jonathyn Bet'nct that turns the desktop into a playground for animated virtual pets, in the spirit of the classic Windows Neko cat. Released in 2001 by Kreative Software, the package ships with a default cat and lets users craft additional creatures in any paint program.How the pe…
Desktop Pets is a desk-accessory style novelty by Jonathyn Bet'nct of Kreative Software, released in 2001. It puts virtual pets that scamper across your Mac desktop, much like the classic Neko program that ran a cartoon cat after the mouse pointer on Windows and Unix systems.What it doesThe included pet is a cat that w…
Despair is Lloyd Burchill's darkly comic 1997 pestilence simulator for the classic Mac, a black-and-white sandbox in which you wreak your wrath on dozens of tiny helpless computer people. It is less a game than a toy: a stage for orchestrated cruelty against pixelated victims.Plagues at Your FingertipsYour arsenal incl…
Released for Mac OS in North America on May 8, 1998 by Blizzard Entertainment, the Macintosh edition of Diablo brought Blizzard North's 1997 dark-fantasy action role-playing game to Power Macs roughly sixteen months after the Windows debut. Patch 1.09 (and the 1.09b hotfix) is the final update Blizzard ever shipped for…
Blizzard North's 2000 isometric action-RPG took the original Diablo's dungeon-crawl loop and stretched it across four acts, five character classes, and randomized loot tables that defined a genre. "Classic" here is the pre-Lord of Destruction release: just Acts I-IV, the original five classes, and the 800x600 perspecti…
Diaper Dash is a 1998 freeware arcade game for PowerPC Macs by Sliced Meats Development, built in Macromedia Director 6. Despite sharing a name with the later PlayFirst time-management title, this is a Frogger-style traffic-dodger in which the player guides an infant across a busy highway to reach baby bottles waiting …
Digital Vendetta is a 1995 two-player Classic Mac arcade game by Mattias Sundstrom, in the long tradition of artillery duels: two cannons sit on a deformable landscape and players trade shots, adjusting angle and power to lob projectiles over the terrain. This entry packages a patch for the original pre-release build.W…
Digital Wipeout is a 1999 educational shareware board game by John and Daniel Mauro in which you roll three dice and combine them with arithmetic to wipe out numbers on a grid before the timer runs down. Up to eight human or computer players can take turns chasing the high score.GameplayEach turn you roll three dice an…
Digital Wipeout DK is the Danish-language edition of John Mauro's shareware math game Digital Wipeout, translated by Casper Strunge Andersen. The gameplay is unchanged: roll three dice, combine them with arithmetic, and wipe out numbers on the board before the timer expires, alone or with up to eight players.Localizati…
DiplomacyLog 1.81 is a free HyperCard stack by bsharvy that helps players track games of Diplomacy, particularly the play-by-email variety. It runs on any Mac with HyperCard 2.1 or later and uses graphical patterns for nationalities instead of the traditional letter codes, with floating windows for notes and unit talli…
Dock is a small Classic Mac space simulation in which the player pilots the Space Shuttle into a rendezvous with the Mir space station. Submitted to the Info-Mac Archive by enivasch@sa.omnes.net, it captures the late-1990s fascination with Shuttle-Mir operations in a lightweight 68k-era download.PremiseThe submission d…
Doctor is the Info-Mac distribution of Game Doctor 1.0 (68K) by Illume Software, a hint, cheat, and patch viewer for the classic Mac that organises game help into self-contained "prescriptions." The 68K build ships separately from the PowerPC archive but reads the same prescription files.Concept and audienceGame Doctor…
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Domain is a 1995 Macintosh rendition of the classic strategy board game Othello (also known as Reversi), authored by Mike Perry. Players take turns placing discs on an 8x8 board, flipping the opponent's pieces by flanking them, with the goal of finishing the match holding the majority of pieces.GameplayDomain follows t…
Domino is a Macintosh implementation of the Spanish partner game Dominó a compañeros, released in 1997 by Akio Iino. Two pairs of players match tiles in bridge-like teamwork until one side reaches 200 points, with adjustable language, sound, and scoring preferences across System 6 through Mac OS 9.Partner PlayTeams of …
Domitrix is a 2001 puzzle game from APO Games that crosses the traditional strategy of dominoes with the falling-block formula made famous by Tetris. Tiles tumble down into a pit and the player chains them together, then sweeps them away whenever a special piece arrives.GameplayThe core loop has players linking domino …
DonDen, by Shinji Ichikawa of Redshirt Studio, is a PowerPC-only puzzle board game that turns Tic-Tac-Toe and Gomoku on their head: every turn you move one of your opponent's tokens instead of your own. The result is a deceptively simple but punishing exercise in inverted strategy against a computer opponent.ConceptBui…
Dopewars is the classic Macintosh port of John E. Dell's notorious turn-based street economics simulator, repackaged for System 7 by Andrew Skinner of Likely Software. You play a small-time dealer with thirty days to turn a profit across six New York boroughs while staying ahead of cops, junkies, and a 15% daily loan-s…
Dot 2 Dot Music Edition is a Mac shareware connect-the-dots casual game, distributed as a BinHex archive (dot-2-dot-music-edition.hqx) through classic Mac shareware channels, presenting numbered-dot puzzles set to a music soundtrack as the central twist on the otherwise pencil-and-paper activity.GameplayThe player clic…
Down and Out is a Macintosh peg-solitaire style puzzle by Tobias Peciva, released around 2000. A grid of pebbles fills the board, and the player jumps and removes them one by one with the goal of clearing as many as possible. Easy to learn, the game rewards the patient calculation typical of solitaire-board puzzles.Con…
Down and Out 101 CB is the Carbon build of Tobias Peciva's pebble-clearing puzzle Down and Out, packaged so it runs natively on Mac OS X as well as on late Mac OS 9. The CB suffix marks the Carbon executable, distinguishing it from the earlier Classic-only PowerPC release of the same game.What Carbon means hereApple's …
Dream Wars! is a 1998 side-scrolling action game for classic Mac OS by John Butler's Monkey Farm Software, distributed as shareware. Its claim to fame is sheer late-90s shareware excess: 40 levels across 5 stages, 8 bosses, 15 weapons, over 200 sprites, more than 50 sound effects, 5 music tracks, and roughly 1,200 fram…
Droids is a 1996 strategy game from Quarter Note Software, an updated and supercharged take on the classic computer game Daleks. Set in 2048, the player guides a lone human across a grid of progressively smarter androids, supported by clan members in the long fight to become the Savior of Terra.GameplayEach level drops…
Dropper is a 1990 color puzzle game for the Macintosh by C.K. Haun, published by RavenWare and later Pointware. Cubes drift down from the top of the playfield and the player stacks them so that four of the same color line up horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, vanishing for points.GameplayThe mechanic is simple bu…
Duck Quest is a 1997 Macintosh action-roguelike from Executive Duck Entertainment in which the player steers a duck through randomly generated dungeons, fighting off poultry farmers and grabbing rubber ducks to refill hit points. It carries the deliberately absurd tone of late-1990s Mac shareware and keeps generating l…
Dungeon Siege is an action role-playing game developed by Gas Powered Games and published by Microsoft in April 2002 for Microsoft Windows and the following year by Destineer for Mac OS X. Set in the pseudo-medieval kingdom of Ehb, the high fantasy game follows a young farmer and her companions as they journey to defea…
Em 40 Demo is the demo build of Empire Master 4.0, the first fully OS X-native release of Christopher Eliot's long-running conquer-the-world strategy wargame. Originally written before Macs had colour monitors and well before the WWW, the author cheerfully warns it is 'highly addictive and should be avoided at all cost…