Genetish 1.0, by Tobias Peciva, is a graphical diversion rather than a game in the traditional sense. The application draws a set of generated images, asks the user to pick a favorite, and then breeds a new generation based on that selection, producing surprisingly intricate visuals from a simple feedback loop.How it p…
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Genetish is a 2000 generative-art toy by Tobias Peciva that turns aesthetic taste into a genetic algorithm: the screen shows nine machine-generated images and the user simply clicks on whichever one looks most beautiful or interesting to seed the next generation.Pick what you likeEach round presents nine candidate imag…
Geographax is a HyperCard stack for the classic Macintosh that draws on a pool of about 2,000 unusual geography questions to quiz the player. Authored by hearth@ctol.net and distributed via Info-Mac, it is aimed at a broad audience that ranges from middle-school students through serious geography buffs.What it isBuilt …
Gerbils Tracks is a small pack of three custom roller-coaster tracks for Apple's Gerbils, the QuickDraw 3D demo authored by Pangea Software and shipped by Apple Computer in 1995. Built by user thewaug, the set bundles courses called Iron Maiden, Barf-o-Matic, and Lucifer's Playground for the original gerbil-powered rid…
Gerry's Attraction is a freeware 3D visualizer by Gerry Beggs that renders the Lorenz and Rossler strange attractors in real time on the classic Mac. Inspired by Hiroki Mori's BeOS Lorenz Attractor, it lets you fly through the curling trajectories using familiar Marathon- or Quake-style controls.Strange attractors in 3…
Get The Picture is a Macintosh adaptation of the Dutch television trivia game show of the same name, in which contestants race to identify a hidden image as it is gradually revealed tile by tile. The disc is a hybrid Mac/PC release packaged for home play.Source materialThe original Get The Picture is a Netherlands-base…
Ghost Runner is a fan-made level pack for the classic Macintosh editions of Lode Runner, the gold-gathering platform-puzzle game originally designed by Doug Smith and published by Broderbund. It belongs to the broad community of user-authored Lode Runner board sets that circulated on Mac shareware channels.The host gam…
Glider is John Calhoun's classic Macintosh action game, first released as shareware in 1988 under the Soft Dorothy Software label. The player pilots a paper airplane through the rooms of a suburban house, riding heating-vent updrafts and dodging household hazards from level to level.GameplayEach room is a side-on slice…
Glypha III is John Calhoun's classic Macintosh arcade game in which the player, mounted on a winged steed and armed with a lance, does battle with sphinxes inside an Egyptian temple in pursuit of a place on the High Scores list. This entry is the Japanese release, ported to Mac OS X by Mark Pazolli with localization by…
This is the version 2.6.1 demo of GameMaker, Al Staffieri Jr.'s card-based authoring system for building point-and-click adventures on the classic Mac. Designed to be approachable without programming, it pairs a visual editor with an optional scripting language and lets authors compile finished games as standalone, roy…
Gmdemo is a demo build of GameMaker, Al Staffieri Jr.'s card-based adventure authoring system for the classic Mac. The full tool lets users assemble graphics, buttons, and text into point-and-click games without writing code, while offering a built-in scripting language for those who want deeper control over game logic…
GM Lite is a restricted, lightweight edition of the Game Maker authoring system for the Classic Mac OS, distributed as shareware for hobbyists who wanted to experiment with building their own games without paying for the full toolset. It carries the same core engine concepts as Game Maker for Mac, in a stripped-down fo…
GnuChessMac is a free Macintosh chess game derived from GNU Chess, distributed under the GNU Public License. The 4.0 lineage was ported by Dan Oetting with Tom Gerardy and Erich Oetting, building on the version 3.0 Mac port originally done by Airy Andre, with later 4.0 work by Rolf Exner.Engine heritageThe Mac port sta…
Golf 1.0 is a small monochrome stick-figure golf game for the Classic Mac OS, packaged as a fat binary that runs on both PowerPC and 68k Macintoshes. Submitted to Info-Mac by Cathy Dozier, it is a lightweight, no-frills take on the sport - the author concedes it is not perfect but suggests downloading it for a bit of c…
Golf is a small monochrome stick-figure golf game for the classic Mac OS, distributed as a fat binary that runs natively on both 68k and PowerPC Macintoshes. The author readily concedes it is not perfect, but pitches it as a quick, lightweight diversion for anyone who wants a no-frills round on a black-and-white screen…
GolfMeister is a long-running Mac shareware utility from Barking Spider Software and Persimmon Software that tracks personal golf scores and computes statistics from them. First released in 1995, it received over a decade of incremental updates, with versions on Macintosh Garden ranging from 1.1 (about 135 KB) up throu…
GolfMeister is a shareware golf-scoring utility from Dave Smith of Barking Spider Software in Etobicoke, Ontario. Rather than simulating play on screen, it records and analyzes real-world rounds, tracking statistics such as greens in regulation, drives in fairway, eagles, and birdies for serious recreational golfers.Wh…
GROTICinstall is the installer package for GROTIC, a Classic Mac arcade-puzzle game by Impression89 (Rene Bauer) in the spirit of Puzzle Bobble. The player aims a stream of coloured balls with the mouse to clear a field; matching three or more of the same colour makes them disappear, with time pressure and shifting lev…
Grotic Read Me.Txt is the readme/notes file accompanying Grotic, a shareware action puzzle game for classic Mac OS by Rene Bauer (Imp89/Impression89). Grotic plays in the spirit of Puzzle Bobble: clear a field of balls by aiming with the mouse and matching three or more of the same color before time runs out.About the …
GunPlay is a 1999 action title from Gib Foltz, published by Epic Banana, that casts the player as Deputy Dan in pursuit of a gang that has just knocked over the local bank. The job is simple: recover the money and take down as many gang members as possible along the way.GameplayPlayed from a side-on platform perspectiv…
Gunshy is a long-running Macintosh tile-matching game in the spirit of Mahjong solitaire, with a community of variants built on top of it. The PowerMac Gunshy edition by Zeke Faux turns the formula into an educational toy: players match tiles bearing pictures of Apple's mid-1990s product line, learning to tell a Power …
Gunshy Alt Icons are user-made icon replacement sets for Gunshy, the classic Mac matching-tile game where pairs of pictured tiles must be cleared from the board. Rather than ship a new game, these add-ons swap the default tile artwork so the same engine can be played with a different theme. Info-Mac carries several, in…
Gunslinger 1.0 is a 1995 freeware shoot-out for Macintosh by David McWherter, built around real-world photographic backdrops captured on a Connectix QuickCam. The objective is plain: shoot the bad guys, leave the good ones alone, and survive a street-level showdown rendered in early digital photography.Shoot the Right …
Gynk's Big Trouble, also titled Aspirin 3: A Big Trouble For Gynk, is the third installment in Sebastian Brytting's Aspirin top-down arcade series, released in 2001 as $2 shareware. Doctor X has returned bent on revenge, and Gynk must hunt him down and shove him into the legendary neverending hole in the ground.Plot se…
Head Office is a Macintosh fantasy and pool baseball application that lets the user run a Rotisserie-style fantasy league or a simpler office baseball pool from a single Mac front-end. Written by Mel Patrick of Intergate (British Columbia), it covers the full season-management workflow from drafting through trades, inj…
Hex Appeal is an original puzzle game by Ronan Dowling, published in 2001 under his BigFishLittleFish Software label. The aim, in the author's words, is to "unscramble a hexagonal grid of colored pieces in a given number of moves" - a hex-tiled cousin of Sokoban with a Rubik's-Cube twist on the input.The mechanicThe bo…
Hextris is a 1990 hexagonal-grid variant of Tetris for the classic Macintosh, originally by Dave Markley with a Mac port by Ross Comer. It keeps the falling-block, line-clearing core of Tetris but reworks the playfield and pieces around hexagons instead of squares, so each piece covers the same area as a traditional te…
Hockey 2.3 is a 2-on-2 hockey game for the Macintosh. Players choose from five color-coded teams - Blue, Red, Purple, Silver, and Green - and face the computer or another human at the keyboard, with player ratings either set manually or generated automatically within a configurable team rating cap.Teams and rosterThe f…
Hornet Log (full title "Hornet Pilot's Logbook") is a thank-you-ware companion utility for Graphic Simulations' F/A-18 Hornet 3.0 flight simulator on the Macintosh, written by Charlie Woods (CharlieFSU) of VisionHeart Interactive. It is not the game itself but an external pilot's logbook designed to make Hornet 3.0 fee…
Hunter Deer is a light-hearted point-and-click shooting game from 1995 by Brian Kelley that flips the traditional hunting genre on its head. Cast as a vengeful deer whose friends and family have been picked off by hunters, the player turns the gun the other way for a brisk round of cathartic woodland payback.Role Rever…
HunterDeer is a freeware point-and-click novelty shooter by Brian Kelley of CompleatMac Software, first released in 1995, that flips the deer-hunting genre on its head. The player is the deer, and the woods are full of beer-swilling hunters picking off friends and family. Time for some payback.Premise and toneBilled op…
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* A Unique Collection of Cool Games and Utilities, All-In-One!
* HyperGames is a HyperCard stack, jam-packed with more than 60 exciting games and useful utilities. Creative games include an acclaimed Pong clone, a Pac-Man clone, animations, music makers, mathematical puzzles, educational qui…
HyperManager is a football (soccer) management simulation by Viktor Blåsjö, posted to Info-Mac with rosters drawn from the English Premier League and the Italian first division of its era. You take charge of a club, picking the line-up and tactics for every match while juggling transfers and the board's…
Hyperspeed is a fast-paced PowerMac arcade shooter from Norway-based Yellow Lemon Software, released in 1997 and distributed as shareware for fifteen US dollars. It draws openly on Space Invaders: the player pilots an Exodus SSC-12 spacecraft and fights off an alien invasion threatening the Alliance of Unioned Planets …
Created in 1998 by Rudi Muiznieks as Mac freeware/shareware, iMacGeddon is a short comedic action game in which the player drops translucent Bondi-blue iMacs onto a horde of Bill Gates clones. The 2.46 MB title runs on 68k and PowerPC Macs from System 7.0 through Mac OS 9 and pokes fun at the late-1990s Apple-Microsoft…
Incident at Karrousel Park is a 1992 interactive fiction title by David F. Curran, a writer whose prior credits include the television series Wiseguy. The game opens at the entrance to a fictional amusement park, marked by a large lion statue and a BIG CATS sign, and leans on narrative atmosphere over heavy parser puzz…