Casino Blackjack is a 1995 shareware blackjack simulator for classic Mac OS by Scott Sams. It pairs straightforward single-table play against the dealer with sampled voice clips recorded by the author, who taunts the player with calls like "Busted!" after a losing hand.GameplayThe program models a basic casino blackjac…
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Briscola (CED Lecca version) is a 1997 shareware adaptation of the Italian trick-taking card game Briscola for Classic Mac OS, distributed by CED Lecca and bundled with the rules of the game. The Macintosh Garden listing offers both an English and an Italian build, each weighing in just over 800 KB and targeting 68k Ma…
Cedlecca Briscola is the English release of Fabio Lecca's traditional Italian card game Briscola, also known as 'Brisk' in other countries. Published from the dsi.uniroma1.it domain in Rome, it brings the centuries-old four-player trick-taking pastime to the classic Mac with multiple regional Italian deck designs.About…
Chinese Poker is a Macintosh shareware card game implementing the classic Asian poker variant in which each player arranges thirteen dealt cards into three poker hands and scores them head-to-head against opponents. It is preserved here as part of the Classic Mac shareware archive.About the VariantIn Chinese Poker, pla…
Classic Gin Rummy is a 1996 shareware Gin Rummy implementation for Classic Mac OS, originally developed by Soul Fry Software and later distributed by Freeverse. This entry covers the early 1.0.x releases that shipped as a small 256-colour application for System 7-class machines, with the standard knock/gin scoring rule…
Crazy Eights is Blue Willow Interactive's 2004 Mac OS X take on the classic kids' card game, played as a single-player solitaire-style match against the computer. Bruce Bell-Myers built it around an animated dealer named Pepe who hands out tips, sound effects, and a prize-redemption hook that rewards registered players…
CrazyEights is a Macintosh implementation of the classic shedding card game by Dawn MacLaughlin. The player competes against the computer to be the first to discard every card in hand; any player still holding cards when an opponent goes out is penalized points for each, and the match ends when a player's score crosses…
Cribbage is a 1992 card-game adaptation by Chris Christensen, published by Elegant Solutions and best known to Macintosh Garden visitors as the work of the same author behind Columns ][. It brings the classic peg-and-pair scoring game to vintage Macs in a tidy top-down layout that runs cleanly on black-and-white or col…
Desktop Poker 1.0 is a casino-style video poker game by Ryuhei Okita, released as US$10 shareware through Info-Mac. The author describes a stripped-down click-driven design where everything you do happens through buttons or the cards themselves, with an optional DoubleUp side wager after each winning hand.How it playsH…
Released in 1993 by Steve Budrys / Blind Squirrel Software, Deuces Wild is a 68k Macintosh shareware video poker simulator built around the Deuces Wild paytable family — the casino variant in which all four 2s play as wild cards. It bundles four payout schedules in a single application: Deuces Wild, Bonus Deuces, Loose…
Draw Poker (originally posted as "Draw Porker") is a casino-style five-card draw poker game for the classic Macintosh by Daniel J. Gardner of the University of Minnesota, uploaded to Info-Mac on Christmas Day 1994. It plays the familiar bet, draw, and showdown loop against the house, in the spirit of a video-poker cabi…
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InterStellar Software presents Egyptian Solitaire. This is a simple and addictive solitaire game my Mom taught me as a child. The cards are shuffled and 28 cards are dealt face-up and overlapping in the shape of a pyramid. The remainder of the cards are t…
Alan's Euchre is a Macintosh implementation of the classic four-player trick-taking card game Euchre, written by Alan Ewalt and distributed for the Mac through the Info-Mac archive. The release ships in two flavors so that both 68k Macs and PowerPC Macs can run a native binary of the same game.AuthorThe game was upload…
Expert Blackjack 4.0 is a sophisticated Blackjack simulator and trainer for classic Macintosh, distributed via Info-Mac by zed97@concentric.net. It recreates a casino with a six-seat table where chips slide to the winner after each hand, while bundling card-counting drills, strategy testers, and even AI experiments bui…
Five Hundred Cards (or 500 Cards) is a Classic Mac adaptation of 500, the trick-taking partnership card game wildly popular in Australia and New Zealand and a close cousin of Whist, Bridge, and Euchre. Denis A. Birnie's Mac version translates the bidding-and-trick rhythm of the table game into a tidy single-player and …
500 Supreme is a 1995 single-player adaptation of 500, the trick-taking card game that is something of a national pastime in Australia and New Zealand. Authors John McLaughlin and Jonathan O'Brien pair you with three artificially intelligent opponents and let you sit at the table any time the urge strikes.About the gam…
Five Of A Kind is a Macintosh poker game submitted to the Info-Mac archive in March 1995 by Marko Horvatic, a contributor writing from the cromath / math.hr domain in Croatia. The package was uploaded as a re-submission to the Info-Mac SUMEX-AIM mirror network and travelled from there into the funet international mirro…
Forty Thieves is a Classic Mac implementation of the venerable two-deck patience of the same name, also known historically as Napoleon at St. Helena and Roosevelt at San Juan. The Mac version dates from around 1990 and preserves the strict, low-luck character that has made Forty Thieves a benchmark among solitaire vari…
It's only black-and white, but I like it!
When the new Hearts game was uploaded, I noticed that this old gem isn't available in any of the major archives, which is a shame, since it is one of the best games I've ever played on the Mac. No color, no sounds, just a straight and simple implementation of Hearts - but for …
Freecell is a card game similar to Klondike, but where we can only move one card at a time. In the game we find: 8 stacks of cards, 4 home cells and 4 free cells. To win, we must move all the cards from the stacks to the home cells. Since we can move just one card at a time, we use the free cells as temporary storage. …
FreeCell for Mac 1.1 is a Macintosh port of the popular FreeCell solitaire card game, released as shareware by Alberto (alberto@baba.cenamec.org.ve) and distributed via Info-Mac in the mid-1990s. Version 1.1 added an undo function on top of the standard FreeCell ruleset.GameplayFreeCell is an open-information solitaire…
Gallery is a classical solitaire card game for the Macintosh, written by Swiss geographer Adrian Herzog and posted to the Info-Mac archive in April 1993. Version 3.0 introduces extended computer-aided-playing options, balloon help, a preference file, and minor bug fixes over earlier releases.Solitaire with statisticsGa…
Gaps is a Macintosh shareware solitaire game by Thomas Reed that implements the patience variant also known as Montana or Addiction. All cards are dealt into four rows, the Aces are removed, and the player must line up each suit from 2 to King by sliding cards into the holes left by the Aces -- easy to learn, notorious…
Gaps 3.1 X is the Carbonized Mac OS X release of Thomas Reed's long-running freeware solitaire Gaps. The 1998 original ran on System 7 through Mac OS 9; this 2002-era 3.1 build ports the game cleanly to OS X while keeping the same minimalist card layout and rules. The goal is to slide cards into the four empty slots an…
Gin Rummy is a 1992 two-player card game for classic Macintosh by William Hale. A match consists of a series of hands, with play continuing until one side accumulates 100 or more points. The program targets early 68k machines and is documented as 32-bit clean and compatible from System 1 through Mac OS 9.Format of play…
Golf 1.0 is a small monochrome stick-figure golf game for the Classic Mac OS, contributed to Info-Mac by Cathy Dozier. The author cheerfully concedes it is not perfect but recommends it as good fun, an unpretentious shareware diversion in the tradition of single-evening Mac hobby projects.GameplayPlayers take stick-fig…
Hearts is an early Macintosh implementation of the classic trick-taking card game, distributed on Macintosh Garden as version 1.6 from Loki Engineering Inc. Dating to 1984, it targets the original black-and-white Mac and runs under System 1 through System 6 on 68k hardware, making it one of the earliest digital Hearts …
Hearts is a classic Macintosh implementation of the trick-taking card game, released by Loki Engineering Inc. in 1984 for early 68K Macs running System 1 through 6.x. The Info-Mac sibling upload distributes David Skelly's freeware Hearts 2.0 build of the same family.The GameStandard four-player Hearts: avoid taking hea…
Hearts is an early 1984 Macintosh implementation of the classic trick-taking card game by Loki Engineering Inc., one of the first card games written for the original 128K Mac and a small but charming showcase of how the new platform's mouse-and-window interface could refresh long-familiar parlor games.GameplayStandard …
Hearts-Alice is a Wonderland-themed opponent set for FreeVerse Software's shareware card game Hearts Deluxe, contributed by Linda Frasier. Drop the file into your Hearts Deluxe folder and the usual computer players are replaced with Alice, the Mad Hatter, and the Queen of Hearts herself.Wonderland at the tableThe …
Hearts-Camp 96 is a character pack from Freeverse Software that drops three new computer opponents into Hearts Deluxe: Bill Clinton, Ross Perot, and Bob "I'm Still Retired" Dole. It is a topical election-year add-on rather than a standalone game, riding on top of Freeverse's already-popular shareware card game.What it …
Hearts Card Counter is a FileMaker Pro 5.0 helper file by Geffrey Klein, MD, designed for players of online Hearts who, like the author, struggle to remember which cards have already been played. It is not a Hearts game itself but a companion tracker that records played cards and tallies who has already taken points.Wh…
Hearts Deluxe is Freeverse's polished take on the classic trick-taking card game, bringing colorful animated opponents and crisp Mac-native presentation to the venerable Hearts ruleset. The base game shipped with three computer players - Zak, Rob, and Jen - each with their own play style and personality.The GameHearts …
The London Group is an add-on character pack for Freeverse Software's Hearts Deluxe, Ian Lynch Smith's 1994 Macintosh card game. The pack supplies a new trio of computer opponents themed around a London cast, swapping in fresh portraits and table reactions while leaving the underlying Hearts engine and AI untouched.How…
Hearts Deluxe Rex Group is the first plug-in character pack for Freeverse Software's Hearts Deluxe. It adds three new computer opponents to the table - Rex, Elizabeth, and Louis - giving players an alternative cast to the default trio of Zak, Rob, and Jen.What it addsThe pack drops three replacement player personalitie…
Hearts Dinos is an opponent character pack for Freeverse Software's shareware card game Hearts Deluxe. It seats the player across the table from a roster of terrible thunder lizards, swapping the default human avatars for prehistoric reptiles during the classic four-handed trick-taking game of Hearts.An Add-On, Not a S…