16 Marbles is a small shareware board puzzle for the Macintosh distributed in Info-Mac as 16-marbles-10.hqx. The readme describes it as "another nice little board game" whose object is to remove as many marbles as possible from the board, billed as easy to learn but hard to actually solve.GameplayThe player w…
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Abbalone 3D is a Macintosh adaptation by Anomic Software of the contemporary abstract strategy board game Abalone, presented on a hexagonal grid with a perspective view of the playing surface. Released in 1996 as shareware, it ran across the late System 7 through Mac OS 9 era and is preserved by Macintosh Garden alongs…
Abbalone is the sibling catalog record of Abbalone 3D by Michael Christen / Anomic Software (1996), a Mac shareware implementation of the hexagonal marble-pushing board game Abalone. Its primary design goal was a friendly user interface paired with a notably strong computer opponent.Sibling entryThis record (slug abbal…
Achi is a freeware Macintosh implementation of the West African strategy game of the same name, written in 1992 by an author posting from Tulane University (PC0TMYS@MUSIC.TCS.TULANE.EDU). The program is 32-bit clean, runs on any Macintosh with at least 230K of free memory, and supports both human-vs-human and human-vs-…
Assassin is a 1996 animated turn-based strategy game for the Classic Mac by Steven H. Taylor of Wahoo Software, released as shareware. Players program a sequence of simple moves for their character each turn, then watch as everyone's programmed moves play out together, in the spirit of Maxis's RoboSport.Program-and-exe…
Backgammon is a 1987 Macintosh implementation of the classic dice-and-checkers race game, credited to David Young, Stephen D. Young, and Debra Willrett. It is a savvy if unflashy single-player program that pits you against the computer on a clean black-and-white board.How it playsStandard backgammon rules apply: roll t…
Backstab 1.0 Copyright Adam Miller 1992
This is an excellent implementation of a board game commonly called Ataxx, an interesting game which looks easy but is tricky to master. Backstab has color graphics, animation in black & white and color, digitized sound, well documented help, a large selection of computer oppone…
Battleship is a 2001 Macintosh take on the classic naval guessing game from HKA Software, notable for letting two captains square off either across a local network or over the internet rather than only at the same machine, and bringing the long-standing pencil-and-paper standard into a tidy Mac OS window.The classic ga…
Battuere is a strategy game played on an 8 by 8 square board by one or two players (human vs. human or human vs. computer). A variation of Battuere has appeared in Martin Gardner's Mathematical Recreations column in Scientific American. Battuere, like checkers and chess, is a mixture of offense and defense. The rules a…
Black Box is a HyperCard implementation of the classic deduction board game, submitted to Info-Mac in October 1996 by Georg Schulze Icking-Konert of Forschungszentrum Juelich. Players fire imaginary rays into a hidden grid and reason from how the rays exit (or vanish) to deduce where invisible obstacles are placed.Orig…
Blocktoid is a Macintosh shareware Arkanoid clone that brings the classic bat-and-ball brick-breaking formula to the Classic Mac OS. Players steer a paddle along the bottom of the screen, bouncing a ball upward to chip away at walls of colored blocks while keeping the ball in play.Arkanoid LineageLike the Taito origina…
Bo Rad is a 1992 Macintosh puzzle game by Joe Fleck, modeled closely on the classic code-breaking game Mastermind. The player tries to deduce a hidden sequence using only feedback about how many guesses are correct in color and position, a tight loop of logic that suits the Mac's mouse-driven interface.Mastermind, Mac-…
Bushka Tutor 1.1 is a companion package to Christian Freeling's Bushka, distributed on Info-Mac as a self-contained tutorial for the two-player abstract board game. Authored by ed@mindsports.net, it walks readers through rules, strategy, and worked examples without requiring any helper application beyond a Java-enabled…
Buzzword Bingo is a HyperCard stack that generates random Bingo cards from a list of words either typed in by the user or imported from a text file. I suppose this stack could be used to generate legitmate Bingo cards, but it would not be half the fun of generating Buzzword Bingo Cards to be used at staff meetings! Tha…
From macmod Tue Sep 21 08:46:38 1993 Subject: Carotto 1.0.4 ( game ) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 93 11:32:51 +0200 From: debois@pmps14.cern.ch
Carotto 1.0.4 Luc De Bois, (c) 1993 Tricky Soft
Carotto is a fully interactive board game for up to 5 human and/or mac pla- yers. It simulates a car race : you draw the circuit with the…
Carre Arabe Color 1.1 is a HyperCard stack by Cyril Moulard (bill@quadra220.humana.univ-nantes.fr) that explores the classical Arabic magic square, a grid of numbers in which every row, column, and diagonal sums to the same total. Posted to Info-Mac in November 1994, it brings color presentation to a centuries-old recr…
Cartoon 13 Gunshy is a cosmetic modification of the classic Mac shareware tile game GunShy, replacing the standard tile faces with Disney and Warner Bros. cartoon characters. It was contributed to Info-Mac in May 1994 by a user posting as "Mr. Nobody" (kwgst@vms.cis.pitt.edu).About the modThe submission is a modified v…
Cf Chess Systems is a Classic Mac shareware chess utility from the System 7 era, distributed through the same shareware channels that supplied much of the Mac's strategy and board game catalogue. It is preserved here as part of the broader effort to keep small, single-author Mac titles of the period accessible.Gameplay…
Chess Album is a tiny HyperCard 2 stack from 1992, distributed by Mark Zimmermann (science@oasys.dt.navy.mil) as a roughly 6 KB compacted, BinHexed download. It is intended for recording correspondence chess games: drag pieces around a board and type moves into a field on the card.OriginThe stack was posted in November…
Chess Fonts Demo is a Macintosh sampler that showcases a set of chess piece fonts - bitmap or PostScript typefaces whose glyphs render as chess pieces on light and dark squares. It is intended to let users preview the typefaces in word processors or layout programs before registering the full font collection.What chess…
ChessKing is a 1997 hot-seat chess application by Craig Shoemaker, designed to let two people play chess across a single Macintosh and a single screen. The program enforces legal moves, supports several chess variations, and can save out the move list in standard computer notation for later review or sharing.Two player…
ChessKing is a Macintosh chess application from Esoteric Software in Arlington, Virginia, designed to let two people share a single computer and screen for a game of chess. The package supports several chess variants in addition to the standard rules. The chessking-all-to-102.hqx archive is the official updater that br…
ChessMate is a 1993 chess program for the classic Macintosh, published by Quade Publishing Company. It offers one-player, two-player, and self-play modes with 255 selectable skill levels, plus standard quality-of-life features such as undo and redo and a full move log kept in both English and algebraic notation.Modes o…
Chess++ is a 1993 chess program by Steven J. Bushell, written in Symantec C++ with TCL 1.1.3. It pairs a serviceable engine with thoughtful interface touches that helped beginners learn the game, including a hint mode that lights up legal destinations whenever you option-click a piece.Playing and learningThe program of…
Chess Rating Calc is a small Macintosh utility for computing Elo chess ratings. It lets a player or tournament director enter prior ratings and game results to project the post-event rating change, replicating the standard Elo formula on a classic Mac desktop.What Elo measuresThe Elo system, devised by physicist Arpad …
Chess Set! 1.1 is a HyperCard stack by Matthew Eli Blain (Washington University in St. Louis), released October 31, 1993. It is deliberately not a chess engine: the stack provides a chess board and pieces you can move freely, save positions on, and play head-to-head with a friend either locally or across an AppleTalk n…
Chessworks is a Classic Mac chess program preserved on Macintosh Garden, listed alongside a sibling release Chessworks 3.0.1 X. The pair represents an evolving line of shareware chess engines for the Mac, offering board play, move validation, and a configurable opponent for solo players.Core featuresAs a chess applicat…
ChessWorks is Michael Ekim's multiplayer-only chess client for the Macintosh, distributed through Info-Mac in 2001 as version 3.0.1 and pitched as a complete rewrite of his earlier ChessWorks 1.x and 2.x releases. The application talks to a built-in tracker so players can find opponents over the internet or a LAN.Stric…
Chessworks 301 X is the Mac OS X Carbon build of Mike Bailey's Chessworks 3, a customizable chess game written in REALbasic and published by Ekim Software around 2001. Version 3.0.1 packages the engine as a Carbonized application that runs natively on early Mac OS X while remaining backwards compatible with Mac OS 8 an…
Chinese Chess Pro is a shareware Xiangqi program for the Macintosh, written by Tie Zeng and released in late 1993. It implements the traditional Chinese variant of chess, with its river, palaces, and distinctive piece set, in a System 7-era Mac application aimed at both solo and networked play.Computer opponentThe prog…
Chinese Tiles is a single-player Mahjong-style tile-matching game by Predrag Stanojevic, written between 1995 and 1997 and distributed through the Info-Mac board-games archive. Players clear a layout of 144 randomly placed tiles by matching pairs, working with the same tile imagery familiar from the traditional Chinese…
Copyright 1994-95 by Chris W. Johnson, All Rights Reserved. Shareware $12.
Chris' Puzzle transforms PICT and JPEG image files into electronic jigsaw puzzles. The puzzles are based on a unique grid pattern, rather than the traditional puzzle structure of square pieces embellished with hook & eye joints. The unusual pie…
Chriss Tic Tac Toe is a small Classic Mac implementation of the timeless three-in-a-row paper game, packaged as shareware for System 7-era Macs. Like many hobbyist Mac releases from the period, it offers a clean, mouse-friendly take on a familiar pastime, sized for a quick break rather than a long session.The gameTwo p…
ColorMind 1.0 is a classic Mastermind-style code-breaking board game by Patrice Mallette, ported to the Macintosh as a FAT (68k/PPC) binary. Players try to deduce a hidden combination of colors before their guesses run out, with French menus, multiple backgrounds, and stereo sound rounding out the experience.GameplayLi…
Congo Introduction is a Macintosh tutorial package by Ed van Zon of MindSports that teaches Congo, a two-player chess variant designed by Demian Freeling at age seven under the guidance of his father, Dutch games designer Christian Freeling. The package bundles the full rules with an annotated example game.An introduct…
Connect is Miles Michelson's emailware take on the classic Connect Four board game for the Macintosh and Power Macintosh, distributed as a fat binary through Info-Mac. Version 1.1.5 polished a smooth, animated implementation that runs on any color depth and pits the player against a noticeably stronger computer opponen…