This package is designed for use with the application "ACE!" version 1.2.1. ACE! is a save game (character) editor which uses plug-in 'modules' to extend it's use. The complete ACE! package can be obtained from any Info-Mac mirror (version 1.2.1 is the most recent). The "Realmz 5.x" module allows you to edit character…

Adventure is the Macintosh incarnation of Will Crowther and Don Woods' Colossal Cave Adventure, the 1976 text game widely credited as the seed of interactive fiction. Several Mac ports of the original two-word parser exist, beginning with a 1985 commercial release by L.W. James and Associates and continuing through lat…

Adventure Island is a small Macintosh role-playing game written by an independent developer (xphiler / Kim) in which the player has been shipwrecked on an island and must find a way to escape. It was distributed through the Info-Mac archive as a personal RPG project.Shipwrecked premiseThe setup is straightforward: you …

The Adventures of Sean 2.2 is a HyperCard-driven comedy adventure by Andrew Tegelaar of Rancid Tomato, in which you play Sean, a perpetually broke everyman who keeps stumbling into bad situations and conversations with the authorities. The author calls it a wacky interactive cartoon, and the goal is essentially to keep…

Another Fine Mess 1.8 is a graphical adventure by Ray Dunakin, the second game in his Ray's Maze series. Built with the World Builder engine, it sends the player through eerie moors, a desolate battlefield, and an ancient castle, battling bureaucrats, sand pirates, and other monsters across a non-linear web of plots, s…

"...if a detailed, nonlinear plot, plenty of puzzles to solve and strange worlds to explore are what counts with you, you're in luck, because Trouble provides that -- at a rock bottom price. Everything from the graphics to the gameplay to the written descriptions of the rooms is of professional quality." -- Mac Home Jo…

Babel is a 1997 work of interactive fiction by Ian Finley, packaged here as a self-contained Macintosh application requiring System 7 and 1.6 MB of free memory. The player wakes as an amnesiac inside Babel, an abandoned Arctic biological research facility, and recovers the story by touching glowing objects that replay …

Inscape's November 28, 1995 CD-ROM, written and directed by avant-garde collective the Residents and animated by Jim Ludtke, drops you into a sun-bleached roadside carnival where a coma victim, a serial killer, plague, and the IRS are all converging on the same eleven hours. You start as ten-year-old Timmy and can hop …

Got Game Entertainment's December 2004 reissue of Pulse Entertainment's 1996 cult adventure Bad Mojo turns Roger Samms, an entomologist about to skip the country with stolen research grant money, into a literal cockroach. You scuttle through roughly 720 photographic screens of grime under a rundown San Francisco bar, w…

Bears Night Out r4 is a Classic Mac shareware release preserved in this archive as part of the broader catalog of small-developer Mac software. The r4 designation marks a fourth revision, indicating the title saw active maintenance during its shareware run.Classic Mac sharewareLike most independent Mac titles of its er…

Blades of Exile is a 1997 shareware role-playing game and scenario construction kit from Spiderweb Software, developed by Jeff Vogel as the fourth and final entry in the Exile series. Released for Macintosh in December 1997 (with a Windows port the following February), it pairs the Exile III engine with a full-featured…

Blobbo 102 Lite is the free, reduced edition of Glenn Andreas's 1995 Macintosh puzzle game Blobbo, in which the player guides a small round creature around tile-based levels collecting toy chests while dodging an interlocking lattice of traps and pitfalls. The Lite version delivers a sampler set of levels from the full…

Take-Two Interactive's February 1995 graphic adventure, published by GameTek, adapts Tri Tac Games' paranormal-investigation tabletop RPG into a point-and-click party game where the player picks two of six agents - Priest, Hacker, Witch, Thief, Vampire, and Mech - and assigns each character's specialty to puzzle soluti…

Castle Chaos is a 1998 turn-based fantasy adventure from Modern Ancient Software, in which one to four players guide a warrior, archer, mage, or thief through a procedurally generated castle on a hexagonal grid, hunting treasure while a resident wizardess tries to stop them.Setting and storyThe game's frame is a single…

Castle Quest is a small graphical adventure game for the classic Macintosh by Loren Everly, distributed through the Info-Mac archive. The player travels through a series of castles on a quest to rescue a princess, in the lightweight tradition of mid-1990s shareware adventures built for black-and-white and early color M…

Christminster is a 1995 Inform interactive fiction by Gareth Rees, subtitled "An Interactive Conspiracy." The player arrives at fictional Biblioll College in the university town of Christminster after a cryptic telegram from her brother Malcolm, only to find him missing and the college caught in a quietly sinister acad…

Coh (the Info-Mac archive shortname for the Complete Handbook of Outcastia) is a late-1990s shareware data expansion for Data Dimensions' AD&D Character System on Macintosh, bundling new races, classes, skills, spells, and a fresh campaign land for both dungeon masters and players to drop into existing AD&D 2nd…

Combat Aid 1.0 is a small Classic Mac utility credited to Benjamin Birney (benyb2@aol.com) and distributed through the Info-Mac game archive's adventure section. It survives in the archive only as a BinHex-encoded StuffIt download, with the author's brief Subject line as its sole period documentation.Archive placementT…

Cyan's June 1990 HyperCard adventure drops the player into a five-planet cartoon solar system with no score, no inventory, and no win condition - just clickable surfaces, hidden tunnels, and the same patient sense of discovery brothers Rand and Robyn Miller would refine three years later in Myst.Setting and storyThe fu…

Crystal Ball v3.0.6 is a Mac utility for Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition Dungeon Masters, not a divination toy. It bundles the bookkeeping a DM repeatedly needs at the table: random treasure by Encounter Level, XP awards, character and monster generators, a combat tracker, and a name generator drawing on millions of see…

Curses is Graham Nelson's landmark 1993 work of interactive fiction and the first major game written in Inform, the author's then-new authoring system targeting Infocom's Z-machine. What begins as a hunt for a street map of Paris in the attic of an old English country house unfolds into a sprawling puzzle-rich journey …

Dark Seed Solution is a complete walkthrough document for Cyberdreams' atmospheric horror adventure Dark Seed, distributed through the Info-Mac archive as a Microsoft Word file. Compiled by Michael Salsbury, it provides a step-by-step solution rather than a graduated hint list, intended for stuck players who want a dir…

Dark Sun Character Maker 2.5 by Michael LaBauve is a Macintosh utility for TSR's original Dark Sun Boxed Set campaign setting. It creates, maintains, modifies, and prints player characters for the post-apocalyptic Athas world, and handles most of the dice rolling and bookkeeping a player or DM would otherwise do by han…

Death Blade is a 1996 first-person, real-time RPG by Robert Chancellor (Crystal Reality Software) that casts the player as Corwin Ironfist, a city guard trapped in an underground complex beneath a city in grave danger. This package is the smaller 1.1.1 update, which patches an existing 1.1 install and is not a full gam…

Demon World Demo is a sample release of the Demon World game distributed through the classic Macintosh shareware archives. As a demo it is a limited preview of the full title, packaged so that prospective players could try the gameplay loop before committing to the registered version.About the DemoThe download is a pre…

Dicer 1.3.3 is a HyperCard-based dice game in the Yahtzee tradition, distributed as a stack for Classic Mac OS during the heyday of HyperCard shareware in the early-to-mid 1990s. Players roll five dice across multiple turns, banking combinations into a familiar scorecard.GameplayEach turn allows up to three rolls, with…

DiceX 1.0.5 is a free AppleScript Studio dice-roller for tabletop role-playing games written by Andrew Merenbach. It was built to scratch a personal itch with existing rollers, exposing controls for die count, sides, optional bonus, and high/low drop, with a small memory feature to save and restore the last roll.What i…

Dracula's Castle is a 1991 text-and-graphics adventure for the classic Macintosh by Al Staffieri Jr. You are stranded on an island ruled by a vampire, and your goal is to defeat Dracula, locate the treasure hidden somewhere on the island, and escape with it intact.Adventure structureThe game blends typed or menu-driven…

Dune Eternity is a fan adventure game for classic Mac OS based on Frank Herbert's Chronicles of Dune, built in 1999 by Josh Phillips on the venerable World Builder authoring system and released through the Info-Mac archive with original music and graphics throughout.Story and presentationThe game is presented as an int…

Duraci is a classic Mac implementation of Durak, the traditional Russian shedding-style card game whose name translates roughly as "fool" — the loser is the last player left holding cards. The Mac version brings the trump-driven attack and defense rhythm of the table game to System 7 and Mac OS 8 era machines.Durak Rul…

Osamu Sato's 1994 first-person point-and-click adventure, published by Sony Music Entertainment Japan, casts the player as Rin on the soul-eating island of Tong Nou, a landmass shaped like a human head modeled on Sato's own. Borrowing an artificial soul good for 49 days, Rin must complete nine missions, dying and reinc…

Exile: Escape from the Pit is the 1995 turn-based fantasy role-playing game from Jeff and Shirley Vogel's Spiderweb Software, the first entry in the long-running Exile series. Players guide a six-character party of exiled outcasts through a vast subterranean world called Exile, hunting for escape, vengeance against the…

Exile II: Crystal Souls is the 1996 second installment in Spiderweb Software's Exile trilogy, a sprawling shareware fantasy RPG by Jeff Vogel set in the underground prison-realm of Exile, where a six-character party fights an Empire invasion and uncovers the secret of the mysterious Crystal Souls.SettingThe game contin…

Exile III: Ruined World is the 1997 third entry in Spiderweb Software's Exile RPG series, designed by Jeff Vogel. It moves the long-running cavern saga to the surface world and ships as $25 Macintosh shareware with a refined one-click interface and the engine that would soon power Blades of Exile.Setting and storyAfter…

Fantasy Quest (Info-Mac slug fantquest-game) is a graphics, sound, and text adventure for Classic Mac, posted to Info-Mac by tjstone@wkpowerlink.com. It bundles many places to explore and puzzles to solve in the lineage of illustrated text adventures that were a staple of small-Mac shareware in the early 1990s.What it …

Fawn is a 1995 HyperCard role-playing adventure by Greg Gillis of Armadillo Games, set on a futuristic outer-space world of the same name. You play Lance, a member of a special agency, leading a three-character party (Lance, Vincent, and Sarah) through roughly 100 screens of exploration, puzzles, and animated battles.S…