Crafty Chess is Rolf Exner's Macintosh port of Bob Hyatt's free Crafty engine, bringing one of the strongest open chess programs of its era to System 7 with native AppleEvent support. Distributed as a fat binary, it plays comfortably on both 68k and PowerPC Macs.The Crafty EngineCrafty was written by Bob Hyatt at the U…
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Critical Mass is a turn-based strategy board game for the Macintosh in which two sides race to push squares of a grid past their safe bomb capacity, triggering chain-reaction explosions that capture neighboring squares. The Info-Mac entry describes it as "an interesting strategy game with 3 levels of play against your …
Cruciverbalist is a freeware/shareware crossword program for the classic Mac OS that doubles as both a solver for published puzzles and a fully featured construction tool for creators - a true cruciverbalist's workbench. This Info-Mac release ships the PowerPC build.SolvingPlayers can solve the program's bundled Cruciv…
Cruciverbalist is a freeware/shareware crossword program for the classic MacOS by Frederick Groth (pmgroth@hal-pc.org). This is the 68k release, with a companion PowerPC native version available. It handles solving, generating, and customizing puzzles, and ships with a word list of nearly 80,000 entries.Solve published…
Cube Strategy is a 1996 turn-based board game for the Classic Mac by Steven Goldberg. Players alternate claiming faces of cubes laid out on a configurable board, and whoever finishes the sixth side of a cube wins it - and earns another turn. The aim is simple: complete more cubes than your opponent.GameplayEach turn yo…
David's BackGammon 2.6.2 is a polished backgammon game for classic Mac OS, billed by its author as easy to use and complete. It runs on any Mac with a 68030 or faster processor, including Power Macs and the G3, and supports both System 7 and System 8.GameplayFive skill levels span beginner to advanced. Play against the…
Depeche Mode 10 Gunshy is a themed tile set for GunShy, E.C. Horvath's 1987 Mahjong Solitaire-style puzzle game for the Macintosh. It replaces the standard tile faces with imagery drawn from the British synth-pop band Depeche Mode, in the spirit of the many fan-made GunShy skins distributed across the shareware era.Abo…
DevilDarts is a darts game by Jason Kravitz with, in the author's own words, a fiendish twist: you must battle your way through six of the best dart players in damnation, challenging your unworldly foes to any one of seven different games. Up to four human or computer opponents can play at a time.PremiseThe hook is str…
Diagonal is a small 1995 two-player abstract board game by Guoniu Han for the classic Macintosh. Each player is given three beads and must arrange them so that they form a diagonal line across the board's grid of locations. It plays as a quick puzzler against a friend or against a built-in computer opponent.GoalThe rul…
Diplomacy Aid is a Macintosh shareware companion utility for Avalon Hill's classic board game Diplomacy. Rather than play the game itself, it assists human players and gamemasters with the bookkeeping that face-to-face and play-by-mail Diplomacy demands - tracking units, supply centers, and order adjudication on the st…
Dirty Dozen is a freeware Macintosh board game released in late 1993 by Nick Triantos and distributed through Info-Mac and umich's mac/game/board collection. The 1.0.1 update from January 1994 fixed a few non-critical bugs in the original 1.0 release while keeping the game free for hobbyist players on the era's compact…
Dominoes is a small classic Mac take on the traditional tile game, written by Dale Blackwell in 1994 at version 1.3. The opening line of its description sets the tone: dominoes has the reputation of being an old man's game, but nothing could be further from the truth. The result is a quick, click-and-drag game against …
Double is a mahjong solitaire game first released for Classic Mac OS in 1996 by PCV enr, with a Carbonized 2.0.4 build that runs on Mac OS 8.1 through Mac OS X. It bundles a generous selection of tilesets and board layouts, giving the familiar pair-matching puzzle a configurable, long-lived feel on vintage Macs.Mahjong…
Dragon is a 1988 top-down strategy game for the classic Macintosh by Mark Nutter, designed for the early black-and-white era of System 1 through System 5 and still launchable through System 7 and Mac OS 9 by way of 68k emulation. It is a compact, single-author shareware effort typical of its time.OriginsReleased in 198…
Emergo Tutor is a classic Mac implementation of Emergo, a draughts-family board game invented by Christian Freeling in which captured pieces are not removed but stacked under the capturing piece, producing tall columns whose top color decides ownership. The tutor presents the rules in playable form on the Macintosh.The…
Enigma is a 1996 Mastermind variant from Freeverse Software, the New York indie outfit later known for Burning Monkey Solitaire and 3D Bridge Construction Set. It pitches itself as "a professional code breaking game" wrapped in a quasi-MYST aesthetic, with talking adversaries who heckle the player between guesses.Maste…
Enigma is an open-source puzzle game inspired by Dongleware's Oxyd on the Atari ST and Rock'n'Roll on the Amiga, released under the GNU GPL and ported to Mac OS X. You steer a small black marble around hand-crafted landscapes, hunting matching pairs of Oxyd stones while dodging traps, lasers, and physics puzzles.Settin…
En Prise is a Classic Mac chess utility whose name comes from the French chess term for a piece left undefended and exposed to capture. Aimed at players who want to sharpen their tactical eye, it sits alongside the era's many small, focused chess tools that ran comfortably on System 7-class Macs.About the nameIn chess,…
Ergo is a game which combines strategy, memory, and plain old guesswork to create an interesting mental challenge. It takes place on a square board covered with tiles (4x4, 6x6, or 8x8). When you start a game these tiles are randomly scattered in several different colors. Your goal is to make all of these tiles the sam…
Eternity (Eternity 1.0.2, also catalogued as 'Eternity: the Battle of the Elements') is a turn-based strategy board game for the classic Mac, released as $15 shareware by Divinity Software. One to four players, human or computer, take charge of fire, air, earth, or water and fight a daily war for tokens scattered in a …
Etoile is a 1994 Classic Mac take on Chinese checkers from Japanese developer Michiko Osakabe, built as a gentle tribute to childhood games played with an older sister. The author's own dedication explains it best: a program made from sweet memories, offered in the hope that players would take a fancy to the same star-…
ExaChess Lite is a freeware version of ExaChess, a full-featured chess database for the Macintosh. ExaChess Lite provides most of the features of ExaChess in a version suitable for maintaining a personal games collection, and is free.
This release, version 1.2, adds several new features and fixes a number of bugs. The…
Stuffed and BinHexed file, with abstract, attached. - Richard ExaChess 2.1 Lite is a freeware version of ExaChess, a full-featured chess database for the Macintosh. You can save, organize, and replay chess games downloaded from the Internet in "PGN" format, such as the week's grandmaster games at and many other sites.…
Fanorona is a Java implementation of the ancient Malagasy board game of the same name, brought to the classic Mac by computer scientist David Eppstein in 1998. It lets players sit down to one of Madagascar's national pastimes without needing the traditional wooden board, stones, and an opponent across the table.About t…
Attached are the final 19 games from the Fischer-Spassky Chess Tournament in Belgrade, Serbia. Fischer defeated Spassky for the 10th time in Game 30 to clinch the $3.35 million prize, winning 10 - 5. Games 1 - 11 are posted to Sumex-aim.stanford.edu as:
/info-mac/game/1992-fischer-spassky-chess.hqx
The games have bee…
Fischer Spassky Sargon IV is a data file rather than a standalone game: it contains all thirty games of the 1992 Fischer-Spassky rematch encoded in Sargon IV's saved-game format, ready to be opened, replayed and analysed inside the Sargon IV chess program for Macintosh. The set was contributed in November 1992 by Frank…
FiveStones is a Macintosh implementation of Go-Moku, the classic Asian board game also known as Connect-Five, written by Xin Xu. The program plays against a human opponent at a range of selectable difficulty levels and is distributed as $10 shareware, with free upgrades for owners of earlier versions.Go-Moku on the Mac…
Flippant is a 1993 board game for the classic Macintosh by Mark Q. Maxham of Apple, distributed as $5 shareware through the Info-Mac archive. Described by its author as wildly affordable and cheaper than lunch, it pits two to four human or computer players against one another in a fast Othello-flavored contest of captu…
Flipper is a freeware strategy board game for one or two players by Joe Strout, released in January 1993 (version 1.2). Players click tiles to cycle through colors or patterns, working to make the whole board match while unmanaged tiles drift on their own. The Macintosh Garden listing credits C.K. Haun and publishers R…
Bushka is a two-player abstract board game by Dutch designer Christian Freeling, distributed on Info-Mac as part of his self-displaying archive of original strategy games. The Info-Mac release packages the rules and a playable presentation so readers can explore the game without any extra software installed on the Maci…
Freeling Emergo is a Macintosh implementation of Emergo, an abstract two-player strategy board game invented by Dutch game designer Christian Freeling. The Mac version brings Freeling's Mind Sports tradition to the desktop, letting players study and contest the game against another human or the computer.A Freeling Abst…
Freeling Games Preview is a small sampler distributed by Ed van Zon to let prospective players try out the Freeling series of abstract board games before committing to a full download. Posted to the Info-Mac archive under game/brd/, it is intended as a lightweight taster requiring Netscape to view.About the Freeling se…
Freeling Glassbeadgame is a Macintosh release in the family of abstract strategy programs associated with the Glass Bead Game tutor preserved on this archive. It belongs alongside its sibling glass-bead-game-tutor entry and is offered here as a companion build for players exploring the same rule set on classic Mac hard…
Freeling Grandchess is part of Abstract Games by Christiaan Freeling, a seven-part Macintosh collection from Solar Software. The set is organized thematically into Chess variants, Elimination, Territorial, Connection, and Bead capturing games, with each part shipped as a self-displaying archive that needs no separate r…
Freeling Havannah is a Classic Mac implementation of Havannah, the abstract connection game invented by Christian Freeling in 1979. Played on a hexagonal board, the game challenges two players to form one of three winning structures: a ring, a bridge, or a fork connecting board edges.The game of HavannahHavannah is par…
Freeling Hexdame is a Classic Mac implementation of Hexdame, an abstract strategy game invented by Dutch game designer Christian Freeling that adapts the rules of international draughts to a hexagonal board. The shift from squares to hexes opens up six directions of movement and capture, turning a familiar checkers fra…