The Probe Demo is the sibling preservation of a Mac shareware preview distributed under the Probe name. It is the companion to a second Probe demo cataloged separately, and both are kept in the archive because their relationship and version differences are not fully documented.Two surviving buildsThe archive holds two …

The Trials of Achenar is a 1997 HyperCard fantasy role-playing adventure for the classic Macintosh by Scott Sams and Colin Reilly. You play a young apprentice wizard learning the trade across a top-down world of colour graphics, sound, music, and animation, posted to Info-Mac on 26 June 1997 as a roughly 3.4 MB BinHex …

Pop Rocket's November 1995 CD-ROM, designed by Spaceship Warlock and Radiskull and Devil Doll creator Joe Sparks, casts you as a freelance music-video producer who has just paid an alien for a one-way trip to the Distortion Dimension, a parallel universe of guitar-shredding pop ephemera. You run a satellite studio, hun…

Twisted! is a World Builder adventure by prolific Mac hobbyist author Ray Dunakin, released in the late 1990s. A mysterious twister whisks the player off to the satirical Land of Ooz, a place every bit as strange as Dunakin's earlier Ray's Maze, populated by caricatured political figures of the era.World Builder RootsT…

Ultima in this entry is Leon McNeill's modern Macintosh update of Ultima III: Exodus -- Richard Garriott's 1983 closer to the Age of Darkness trilogy -- rebuilt for 68k and PowerPC Macs starting in 1995 and ultimately published commercially through LairWare under license from Origin Systems. Version 1.4.2 in this archi…

Ult. 3 Character Editor 1.1.2 is a freeware utility by Michael Trent for tweaking saved characters in the Macintosh remake of Ultima III: Exodus. Posted to Info-Mac in May 1996, it lets players nudge stats upward or, in the author's words, turn their party into PURE GODS. Version 1.1.2 adds Balloon Help and cleans up d…

Version History ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Version 1.0d6 March 1996: Development Release: * Now supports Ultima III 1.3's new variable size Map format!!! * If a Window can't do graphics offscreen, it will perform updates on-screen. This might look a little weird, but it's better than crashing. * Offscreen Graphic scrap spaces are no…

Uncle Zebulon's Will is a 1996 text adventure by Magnus Olsson, written in TADS. It took first place in the TADS division of the inaugural Annual Interactive Fiction Competition. The premise: your eccentric Uncle Zebulon always claimed to be a wizard, and now that he has passed away, you discover it was all true.Story …

Valley Doom is an obscure Macintosh shareware title preserved in the Classic Mac software archive. Detailed catalog records and curator pages for the game have not surfaced in the usual mirrors, so the entry here documents what survives in the archive itself rather than reconstructing facts that cannot be verified from…

Virtual Maze Book 2.0.1 is a maze generator by Robert Schenk, released in 1997 as a free upgrade to the earlier Maze Book Lite. Although it can solve mazes on screen, the program's real strength is producing high-quality printed mazes - the same engine Schenk used to design two maze books published by Dover.From Maze B…

Wanderer I: The Cult of Misery is a freeware Ultima-style role-playing game written exclusively for the Macintosh by Quinn Dunki and released in 1995. The player, hunting the killers of a murdered sister, sets out from the farming village of Horseshoe to grind, gear up, and untangle a wider conspiracy.GameplayThe game …

WCII Maps 3.0 is a freeware pack of five custom multiplayer and skirmish maps for Blizzard Entertainment's Warcraft II on the Macintosh, assembled and distributed by gseckel@bigfoot.com. The author pitches the set as material for "a Saturday evening, when you have nothing to do" - or, more honestly, when you would rath…

Weather is the default Mac OS X Dashboard widget that displays current conditions and a short forecast for a chosen location. Bundled with Tiger in 2005, it became one of the most recognizable Dashboard widgets, sitting alongside Calculator, Stickies, and World Clock on the translucent overlay layer.What it doesEnter a…

Wheel of the Teachings is a 1999 gentle point-and-click adventure by Brian Kelley, published by CompleatMac Software, that weaves Buddhist philosophy into its exploration. Players walk through painted landscapes searching for hidden wheels, each representing a spoke of the Buddha's Eight-Fold Path.GameplayThe objective…

Wishbringer is a 1985 interactive fiction adventure from Infocom, written by Brian Moriarty as an introductory-level text adventure. You play a humble postal clerk in the seaside village of Festeron, drawn into a supernatural conflict after delivering a mysterious envelope to a magic shop.StoryAn old woman's cat has be…

World Builder is Bill Appleton's pioneering graphic adventure authoring system, originally published commercially by Silicon Beach Software in 1986 and released to the public domain in August 1995. Version 1.2, mirrored here from Info-Mac, adds 32-bit compatibility and bundles the Sound Converter, sound libraries, and …

Worlds Apart is a novel-length work of interactive fiction by Suzanne Britton, set in an alternate universe she calls The Higher World. Built on the TADS engine in the tradition of classic Infocom adventures, it casts the player as the protagonist of a sprawling personal tale rather than a puzzle-box.The Higher WorldTh…

Joe Strout's Wumpus is a graphical Macintosh adaptation of the classic 1972 "Hunt the Wumpus" type-in game, published through Codenautics in 1999. The original deduction puzzle becomes a single-player cavern crawl of strategy and luck, with a tight inventory and a Wumpus that bites back.Hunt the Wumpus, reimaginedYou w…

Yipe! III v1.3 is an adventure and roleplaying game for the classic Mac, the third entry in Kev's long-running Yipe! series. Players fight monsters, gather treasure, and work toward saving the town across a tile-based world full of traps, rafts, and a casino tucked into the dungeon.Adventure with RPG bonesCombat agains…