Freeverse Software's 3D Pitch (aka Setback) Deluxe is a 2003 Mac shareware adaptation of Pitch - the trick-taking partnership card game known as Setback in New England - rendered as a 3D table of animated, talking computer opponents with optional internet play against real opponents.Setting and themeThe game leans into…
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Released by Freeverse Software in 1998, 3D Spades Deluxe was the studio's follow-up to its breakout Hearts Deluxe, transposing the classic four-player trick-taking partnership game into a first-person 3D table view animated by the company's signature cast of customizable AI "puppet" opponents.Setting and themeThe game …
500 Cards is a Macintosh implementation of "500", the trick-taking card game popular in Australia and New Zealand. Written by Denis A. Birnie and first released in 1994, it offers play against computer opponents or networked humans via NetSprocket, with the official rules bundled.GameplayPlayers bid for the right to na…
5k Poker Dice is the second Macintosh Garden listing of Gypsy King Software's long-running Poker Dice shareware - a duplicate node alongside the primary entry that almost certainly captures a different point release of the same Greg DeBacker title. Either build is a hybrid of five-dice Yahtzee-style play and standard p…
5K Poker Dice (v1) is a Macintosh shareware dice game from the Gypsy King Software / ChezMark lineage that crosses traditional five-dice play with poker hand scoring. It descends from the earlier Killer Dice, twice named a ChezMark Mac Pick, and bundles multiple variants into a single playable app rather than shipping …
A Farewell to Kings is a strategic solitaire card game by Rob Steward (1999) that breaks the linear stacking of traditional patience. Cards connect two-dimensionally on a grid, matching suits to suits and ranks to ranks, and a four-of-a-kind in a square formation forms a removable "book."How It PlaysUnlike most solitai…
A Farewell To Kings for Mac OS X v2.0.1 is Rob Steward's native OS X port of his unconventional strategic solitaire, released 4 September 2001. Unlike linear card solitaires, play unfolds two-dimensionally on a grid: cards are matched by suit and rank in both directions, and four-of-a-kind in a square formation collaps…
Agglomeration is a 1995 Classic Mac card-matching puzzle by Darryl Mlinar, published under the Ocular Jihad Software label. Players work a tableau of twelve cards, hunting for valid groups of three under a Set-style rule where every card attribute must be either entirely uniform or entirely distinct across the trio.Goa…
Alan's Euchre is a 1998 computerized version of the trick-taking card game euchre for the Classic Mac, written by Alan Ewalt of Ewalt Enterprises. The shareware title plays the standard four-handed partnership form with a 24-card deck of nines through aces, pitting one human against three computer-controlled players.Ho…
Alan's Solitaire is a no-frills solitaire card game for the classic Macintosh, written by Alan Ewalt and submitted to the Info-Mac Archive in version 1.0.6. The author's pitch is straightforward: a simple solitaire with minimal system requirements, suitable for older Macs that struggle with the more elaborate commercia…
Allgood Solitaire is a Macintosh shareware solitaire collection from Mike Perry of Allgood Software, distributed via Info-Mac and the developer's site. Version 3.1 -- archived here -- bundles 65 different solitaire variations into a single Carbon application, ranging from familiar staples like Klondike to less common p…
Allgood Spite and Malice is a Classic Mac card game by Mike Perry, part of his Allgood line that also includes Allgood Solitaire. It implements the two-player card game Spite and Malice (also known as Cat and Mouse), in which each player races to empty a face-down pay-off pile by building shared center stacks from Ace …
AntiQuadra 2.0.2 is a freeware Macintosh implementation of an unusual Patience (solitaire) variant by George Stepanek. Version 2 added color card faces and a fat-binary build with native PowerPC code, and the 2.0.2 update fixes a minor bug, refreshes the documentation, and lets the game run cleanly off CD-ROM.GameplayA…
Anubis Casino by Anubis, Inc. is a PowerPC Macintosh shareware program that simulates seven popular casino table games in a single package, designed around large color graphics, flexible chip handling, and per-user preference profiles for sound and keyboard control.Included gamesThe bundle covers Baccarat, Blackjack, C…
Please replace this version 1.5 with any previous version on your system. Thank-you. Here is the long awaited, and latest, release of AWESOME BLACKJACK version 1.5. This version is a SIGNIFICANT improvement over version 1.1. Some of which include:
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Baker's Dozen 2.1.1 is a one-deck solitaire game for the classic Mac by Eric Snider (weasel@netcom.com), released as $10 shareware in June 1993. An earlier version received three mice in MacUser, and the author notes that 2.1.1 is "much better than the version that was reviewed."GameplayBaker's Dozen is a single-deck p…
Now true full screen sizing options with big off-white (easy on the eyes) beautiful cards, animations, sounds, and arcade-like game-play fun. Beat the Dragon 3.0 comes alive at last, setting a new design and animation standard for solitaire games, BTD3 is a must have!
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Bezique is a freeware Macintosh implementation of the classic French/British two-player trick-taking card game, distributed in the 1990s through the Info-Mac archive as a StuffIt-compressed download. The program is reported as 32-bit clean and runs in roughly 300K of memory, making it comfortable on early color and gra…
Bjg Sounds is a small user-contributed sound pack for BJG (Black Jack Game), a shareware Macintosh blackjack title from the 1990s. Rather than a standalone game, it is an add-on resource bundle that replaces the default chip, card and dealer cues inside BJG to give the host application a different audio character on Cl…
Blackjack Deluxe is a 1995 shareware casino blackjack simulator for Classic Mac OS, developed by Ed Trice and published by Circumflex Software. Beyond a straightforward card-table interface, it models the more analytical side of the game, including card-counting theory and multi-deck shoe play.GameplayThe game presents…
Blackjack Gold is a long-running shareware blackjack simulator from Gypsy King Software, distributed in parallel Macintosh and Windows builds since the late 1990s. This entry covers the original Classic Mac OS / early Mac OS X line: a casino-style 21 trainer with extensive rule customization, strategy testing, and card…
This entry covers Gypsy King Software's Blackjack Gold v1.10 — the early Mac OS X (Carbon) port of the long-running shareware blackjack simulator that began life on Classic Mac OS. Functionally it mirrors the Classic build's casino-style 21 game with deep rule customization and card-counting drills, but compiled to run…
Blackjack Royale is a Mac shareware blackjack simulation distributed in the classic Mac OS era, presenting a configurable single-deck-to-shoe casino blackjack table for solo play against a virtual dealer with adjustable house rules.GameplayStandard casino blackjack: hit, stand, double down, split, and (depending on con…
Boxcars Casino is a 1995 casino simulation by Jeff T. Rodeo that bundles a small arcade of gambling pastimes into a single Macintosh application. Players can step up to craps, poker, slots, baccarat, roulette, or blackjack, all rendered for either 256-color or black-and-white displays of the era.Six Games Under One Roo…
Bridge Pro is one of several contract-bridge implementations that circulated as Mac shareware during the 1990s, sitting alongside more prominent titles like Artworx Bridge and 3D Bridge Deluxe. It is aimed at solo players who want an AI partner and three AI opponents at the table, with the standard bidding, declarer-pl…
Briscola 1.2 is Marco Tenuti's Macintosh implementation of the classic Italian trick-taking card game, known as atout in France and trump in English. Released as shareware in the mid-1990s for both 68K and PowerPC Macs, it pits you one-on-one against a computer opponent across a 20-hand match for control of the 120-poi…
Briscola is a traditional Italian trick-taking card game played with the 40-card Italian deck, and this Macintosh shareware port by Fabio Lecca brings it to classic Mac OS with optional QuickTime music. This entry is the demo distribution of version 1.5, the version number bumped to keep parity with the developer's Win…
Briscola Demo is a companion release to the same author's Scopa, packaging a trial version of the classic Italian trick-taking card game Briscola for Classic Mac OS. The MacTrove archive preserves it as a sibling entry; substantive curator-side documentation for this exact build is currently limited.About BriscolaBrisc…
Burbank Rummy is a shareware card game by Scott Henderson, dated 1999 on Macintosh Garden, that mixes traditional rummy with elements of Canasta and Oklahoma Gin. The Info-Mac release archived here is the demo build (version 1.2), which lets players try the game in three-hand sessions before registering.Gameplay and de…
Released by Freeverse Software in 1999, Burning Monkey Solitaire II is a card game for Mac OS that bundles a suite of solitaire variants inside a vaudeville-style theatre populated by a heckling, joke-cracking troupe of cartoon monkeys. It is the direct sequel to Freeverse's 1997 original and a flagship entry in the lo…
Freeverse Software's 1998 Mac shareware solitaire collection wraps a fast Klondike deal in 24-bit card art and a peanut gallery of animated monkeys who heckle, sing, and make monkey noises when clicked. Designed by Bryan Horling and Ian Lynch Smith, it became one of the most-installed Mac OS shareware titles of the lat…
Canfield by Michael A. Casteel is one of the original Macintosh shareware games, first released in 1984 for the 128K Mac and continuously updated for more than a decade. Version 6.0, preserved here, adds full built-in color while still running on hardware as old as a Mac Plus.The card gameCanfield is a Klondike-family …
Card Shell Volume 1 is a collection of color card games for the Macintosh by Ralph S. Sutherland of the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Version 1.01, posted to the Info-Mac archives in August 1993, is a maintenance release that fixes a startup crash on accelerated 680…
Card Shell vol2 is the second volume in the Card Shell collection of solitaire and card games for Classic Mac OS, packaging additional variants on top of the original Card Shell shell so players can keep cycling through new deals without launching separate apps.Card Game CollectionBundles a set of single-player card ga…
Caribbean Stud Poker 1.0 is a freeware Mac program by Tom Rockwell that simulates the popular casino game of the same name. It comes complete with the jackpot side bet, and the read-me explains the full rules so newcomers can learn without prior stud poker experience.The casino game, simulatedCaribbean Stud is a player…
Carte is a 1993 freeware card game for the Macintosh by Art Min, modeled on UNO. The player competes against up to five computer-controlled opponents, each with their own digitized voice commentary. The winner is the player holding the fewest points when one player crosses a configurable ceiling score.How it playsLike …