EV Credit Hack is a 1996 utility by Jim Fron for Ambrosia Software's Escape Velocity. It is a simple patch, created with ResCompare, that edits a pilot file to grant the player over 1.5 billion credits, removing all economic pressure from the game in a single click.What it doesThe patch rewrites the credits field of an…

Ev Edit is a third-party scenario and resource editor for Ambrosia Software's Escape Velocity, the 1996 space trading and combat game for the classic Mac. The tool lets enthusiasts open the game's resource files and modify ships, outfits, systems, and missions to build custom scenarios or tweak the original universe.Ed…

Take this survey to determine if you need the EV Target Graphics plug-in: Do you play Escape Velocity? (YES) (NO) If you answered YES to any of the above questions, you need our plug-in! EV Target Graphics replaces the TRI graphics (you know, those boring, hard-to-read ones that appear when you target a ship) with fu…

A third-party plug-in for Escape Velocity Override, Ambrosia Software's 1998 follow-up to the original Escape Velocity. Override expanded the universe roughly fivefold with branching storylines, over 250 missions, and improved graphics, and shipped with plug-in support that fan authors used to build new scenarios like …

EV Update is a patch installer for Ambrosia Software's Escape Velocity, the seminal 1996 top-down space trading and combat game by Matt Burch. The patch brings an existing Escape Velocity install up to a newer point release rather than installing the full game, and is meant to be run against an already-licensed copy.Wh…

F1GP is a 1995 top-down racing game for the Classic Macintosh by Satoru Nishisaka. Despite the name's resemblance to MicroProse Formula One Grand Prix, this is an independent shareware title: a simple bird's-eye-view car race played against a second player at the same keyboard or against the ghost of your own best lap.…

F.A.R.M. Patrol is a 1996 side-scrolling arcade shooter for the classic Mac OS by Five Guys from Stanford. You drive a heavily armed pickup truck across a string of rural levels, blasting enemy vehicles and outlaws before they reach you. The package ships with two starter save files: one parks you at level five, the ot…

Ambrosia Software's 1999 Mac-only side-scroller follows the Habnabit mage Ferazel through a hand-painted underworld of crystal caverns and goblin keeps. Designer Ben Spees layered traversal puzzles, hidden rooms, and weakness-based boss fights onto a platformer foundation that ran natively on PowerPC Mac OS 8 and 9.Set…

Floor Tiles is a small Macintosh shareware puzzle in the tile-matching tradition that flourished on the platform during the System 7 and Mac OS 8 era. The player rearranges or pairs tiles on a grid to clear the board, with new layouts adding wrinkles such as locked tiles, color rules, or timed pressure.GameplayEach boa…

The Flying Nightmares Act Pack is an add-on mission set for Domark's 1994 Macintosh Harrier sim Flying Nightmares, developed by Simis Limited. It bolts additional scenarios onto the base game, extending the strategic Caribbean campaign with fresh sortie objectives for the AV-8B jump-jet pilot.What it addsThe pack is di…

Hi, Here is Fly Swatter, a little game I've written. It is freeware, with the provision that if you use it, please try to send me a note letting me know. The object of the game is to swat a little fly with your mouse cursor, which appears as a fly swatter. Only one fly appears at a time. If you swat him, a new one wi…

Foobar Versus the DEA is a 1996 vertically scrolling shoot-'em-up for Classic Mac OS by Tom Kluge and Dr. Dick (Funner Software). Players pilot the heroine Foobar in a lone-wolf raid on a Drug Enforcement Agency compound to free her boyfriend Ned and destroy NOSEY, the facility's surveillance computer.Politics in pixel…

Released in 2002 by Mitchell Haile under the Degana Games label, Forma is a Carbonized Macintosh puzzle/arcade title in which the player arranges falling block shapes into matching strings of three or more along diagonal, vertical, and horizontal axes. This catalog entry reflects version 2.0, distributed as a 6.43 MB B…

Fracas is a 1996 top-down arcade shoot-em-up for Classic Mac OS by Frank Kane of Cerberus Development, published by Midas Interactive. Players blast through level after level of monsters with varying intelligence and weaponry, accompanied by a sixteen-track stereo soundtrack the readme tells you to crank loud.GameplayT…

Frequon Invaders 1.1 is an arcade game in the Fourier Domain. You control a wave pattern with the mouse, and attempt to destructively interefere with wave patterns of the invading Frequons. Prior knowledge of Fourier transforms is not required. You develop the necessary intuition by playing. It is both visually beautif…

Frog Xing is a 1995 Frogger clone for the classic Mac by James Shaw of Shaw Software, distributed via Quarter Note Software. Guide a frog across a busy highway and a hazard-strewn river to reach docks on the far side, picking up bonuses for extra points along the way.GameplayThe author's release notes call it a tribute…

FS-ATC is a Macintosh shareware air-traffic-control companion for Microsoft Flight Simulator 4.0. It runs in the background, uses undocumented Apple Events to read the aircraft's position, heading, altitude, and speed, and feeds the pilot ATC instructions through the Speech Manager or as on-screen text.What it adds to …

Released in 1998 by German indie author Jonas Echterhoff, Galactic Revolt: The Fall of the Empire (here distributed as a 1.0 beta) is a Macintosh shareware arcade space-combat title. The brief, on-the-tin description: shoot everything that moves while threading your craft through canyon-walled levels without crashing.S…

Galaxus is a 1996 vertical-scrolling space and air combat shoot-em-up for classic Mac OS, written by Martin Christen and published by the Swiss developer Algomedia Software. The player flies a fighter through a series of mission-based levels, dodging waves of incoming enemies and bullets, and uses the cash earned betwe…

Factor Software's 2003 puzzle release Germs, programmed by Michael Weyandt, asks you to manage a Petri dish of brightly-colored pathogens by dragging them into matching clusters before they overrun the board. The Mac shareware sits in the place-the-tile lineage of MacPipes rather than the falling-block tradition, leani…

Geyser is a 1996 Classic Mac OS puzzle adventure by Jean Marie Chanoine Jr. Players step into the role of Darius, guardian of the sacred geyser of Karamanga, solving riddles and assembling mystical keys to unlock the geyser's powers while fending off spiritual forces that threaten the sanctuary.PremiseThe narrative fra…

Gravity Wells is a 2006 OpenGL puzzle/arcade game by Jorge Arroyo Gonzalez, published under the Makasoft label. The player guides a small ship indirectly with the mouse, working through single-screen puzzles set against trippy backgrounds and an atmospheric soundtrack.GameplayEach level is a self-contained puzzle. Rath…

GravityWells with Editor is the level-editor edition of Jorge Arroyo Gonzalez's open-source arcade puzzler from Makasoft, distributed as a 0.9b beta. The player guides a lost ship through twenty single-screen levels by clicking to reposition a gravity well, which redirects the ship's trajectory and speed. This build ad…

Glider 4.0 is John Calhoun's side-scrolling arcade game in which the player pilots a paper airplane through the rooms of a house, riding lift from heater vents while dodging tables, shelves, balloons, and rival gliders. It is the first commercial release in the Glider series and the direct predecessor to Glider PRO.Gam…

John Calhoun's 1994 finale to the Glider series, published by Casady & Greene for Mac, asks the player to pilot a paper airplane room by room through a suburban house — riding updrafts from candles, dodging bouncing basketballs, popping toast, and dripping faucets. PRO finally adds outdoor levels, a built-in house …

Glimmer is a 1996 stereoscopic arcade game by Jeremy Bem that requires red/cyan anaglyph 3D glasses to play. Pure arcade reflexes meet a soundtrack of 26 Bach harpsichord and clavier pieces, producing one of the more idiosyncratic experiments in the late-Classic-Mac arcade catalogue.Anaglyph 3D GameplayVisuals are rend…

Glypha is John Calhoun's classic Macintosh Joust clone, first released in 1990 through Soft Dorothy Software and continued across three major versions for early black-and-white and colour Macs. Players ride an ostrich-like mount across stacked stone platforms, jousting hovering enemies above a pit of lava and dodging t…

Gold Digger: The Lost Mines is a fast-paced, multi-screen platform game by Tad Woods (T&T Software), released in 1995 and described in its own documentation as "the ULTIMATE balance of STRATEGY and arcade-style ACTION." Macintosh Garden frames it as "a cross between Lode Runner and Donkey Kong" - mining gold across scr…

GoldPusher is a 1996 Macintosh puzzle-action hybrid by Erich Friedman with Daniel and Willem Vree, openly inspired by the commercial title Leprechaun but reworked with its own rules, graphics, and feel. The Macintosh Garden listing pitches it as a mixture of puzzle, strategy, and action wrapped in slightly off-kilter v…

Grag and Thog Bonkheads is a 2D single-screen platform arcade game for classic Mac OS, openly modeled on Nintendo's Mario Bros. Players run the cave-troll buddies Grag and Thog as they defend Trollsville from waves of pests, jumping under platforms to flip enemies and then bonking them off. Released in 1996 by 1 A.M. P…

Gravity Balls is a 1994 freeware arcade oddity by Aaron Davidson, published under the Silicon Creek Software banner, in which the player uses the mouse to keep a wandering ball penned inside a yellow rectangle on screen for eight continuous seconds at a time, advancing through faster levels with smaller targets.The obj…

Greebles is a 1997 Mac shareware action game by Peter N. Lewis (Stairways Software) in which you drive bulldozers around 100 grid-based levels, shoving blocks into the titular Greebles, with multi-player support for up to four players on one Mac and up to nine networked machines.Push, smash, repeatYou steer a bulldozer…

Grizzly is a one-on-one fighting game for classic Mac OS in which pre-rendered 3D teddy bears trade punches, kicks, and special moves in arena bouts. Released in 1995 by Adam Winiecki, it leans into a deliberately absurd Mortal Kombat parody: a booming announcer, a giant plush sculpture looming over the stage, and comb…

Grizzly 1.3.1 Preview is a small download from Adam Winiecki of Judah Software that bundles three PICT screenshots from the full shareware release of Grizzly, a one-on-one fighting game starring 3D-rendered teddy bears. It serves as a quick visual sampler for anyone weighing whether to grab the 3 MB main archive.What's…

Grotic is Impression89's hex-grid action-puzzle game; this catalogue entry is the PowerPC-native v3.2 build distributed through Info-Mac as grotic-32-ppc.hqx, sibling to the 68K upload at grotic-32.hqx (node 10577). Macintosh Garden lists the title as a Puzzle Bobble lineage game with both 68k and PPC support.Same game…

Grotic is Impression89's (Rene Bauer's) hex-grid arcade-puzzle game for the Macintosh, originally a 1995 shareware release with the v3.2 update mirrored to Info-Mac in two builds: grotic-32.hqx for 680x0 Macs and grotic-32-ppc.hqx for PowerPC. Macintosh Garden classifies it as an action puzzler in the Puzzle Bobble lin…