Freeling Medusa is one entry in Christiaan Freeling's collection of original abstract strategy games, distributed for the Classic Mac through the Info-Mac board games folder. It ships as a self-displaying archive: the rules and presentation are bundled together, requiring no separate reader to study the game.The Freeli…
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Fungus is a 1992 Macintosh strategy game by Ryan Koopmans for two to four players, blending the territorial flips of Othello with the falling-shape logic of Tetris. Players spread their fungus across a top-down board, devouring everything in their path as the colony grows across the playfield.Othello meets TetrisThe bo…
Isolation is a two-player abstract board game written as a rulebook for GameMaster, an early-1990s networked board-game server for the Macintosh. It was contributed to Info-Mac in May 1992 by Rhys Hollow of the University of Western Australia and ships as a GameMaster rulebook rather than a stand-alone application.How …
Kalaha is a Macintosh adaptation of the ancient mancala family of sowing games, released by Joachim Kulla in 1998. Built around a board game tradition the author traces back roughly seven thousand years to Egypt, the program offers an easy-to-learn but highly addictive count-and-capture experience for solo Mac players.…
Game of the Winds is Martin Cordsmeier's Shanghai-style tile solitaire for the Classic Mac, with releases from 1998 through 2002. The title translates the Chinese name Pung Chow, and the game brings standard matching-tiles solitaire to System 7 and Mac OS 9 in colour or black-and-white.GameplayThe board is a stacked la…
Game of the Winds is a Shanghai-style tile solitaire for the Classic Mac by Martin Cordsmeier, first released in 1998 and updated through 2002. Its title is an English rendering of the Chinese name Pung Chow, and it brings the familiar matching-tiles board to System 7 and Mac OS 9 in both colour and black-and-white.Gam…
Genius is a digital take on the classic peg-solitaire puzzle, ported to the Macintosh in 1995 by Jeremy Vineyard of Viperware. Players jump pegs over their neighbors on a triangular board, removing the jumped peg each turn, with the goal of leaving exactly one peg standing. It is a small, focused brain-teaser in the Ma…
The Glass Bead Game Tutor is an introductory package for the Glass Bead Game, a two-player abstract board game by Christian Freeling whose name nods to Hermann Hesse's 1943 novel Das Glasperlenspiel. Authored by Ed van Zon of MindSports and submitted to Info-Mac, the tutor walks an interested layman through the rules, …
GNU Chess for the Macintosh, often distributed as GnuChessMac, is a 1995 Mac port of the long-running GNU free-software chess engine. The Mac build was assembled by Dan Oetting and Tom Gerardy and wraps the engine in a native classic-Mac interface, with a top-down board view and standard piece movement.EngineUnder the …
GNU Chess Gaeilge is an Irish-language (Gaeilge) port of GNU Chess for the classic Macintosh, based on the version 3.0.2 codebase of the long-running Mac port maintained by Dan Oetting and Tom Gerardy. It bundles the standard GNU Chess engine and Mac front end with menus, dialogs, and prompts translated into Irish.Abou…
GnuChessMac 4.0 is a free Macintosh chess program derived from GNU Chess 4.0 and distributed under the GNU Public License. The port was originally done by Dan Oetting with help from Tom Gerardy and Erich Oetting, with this 4.0 release packaged for the Mac by Rolf Exner.LineageThe Mac interface is based on the version 3…
Gnu Go on the Mac is a Classic MacOS GUI wrapper around the open-source GNU Go engine, letting players take on a strong free Go opponent without dropping to a command line. The most polished port is Hideyuki Fujiwara's Mac GNU Go 3.2.3 from 2003, which embeds GNU Go 3.2 inside a native PowerPC app.The GNU Go EngineGNU …
GNU Shogi 1.1E for the Macintosh is a port of the UNIX GNU Shogi engine (version 1.1, patch level 02) that plays Shogi, the Japanese equivalent of Chess. Captured pieces can be dropped back onto the board by the captor and almost all pieces can promote, producing an aggressive game that grows more complicated toward th…
GNU Shogi gaijin patch
This patch was designed to make it easier for English-speaking beginners to learn how to play Shogi (a.k.a. "Japanese chess"). It contains a new set of pieces that are marked with their English names, so you can learn the strategy of Shogi instead of learning to recognize the pieces.
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Grand Chess Intro is a small Macintosh introduction to Grand Chess, the 10x10 chess variant invented by Dutch game designer Christian Freeling in 1984. It serves as a primer on the variant's enlarged board, expanded piece set, and revised promotion rules rather than a full tournament-strength engine.About Grand ChessGr…
Grand Chess Yerevan 96 is a compilation of Grand Chess games played at the 32nd Chess Olympiad in Yerevan, Armenia. Twenty-five chess masters with ELO ratings between roughly 2250 and 2350 explored the variant invented by Christiaan Freeling, and every game from the event was recorded for this collection.About Grand Ch…
Halma is a Macintosh implementation of the 19th-century strategy board game of the same name, in which players race to transfer their pieces from one corner of a checkered board into the opposing corner. The Mac version preserves the abstract, jump-and-step gameplay that has kept Halma in print since the 1880s.About th…
Havannah Tutor is an interactive introduction to Havannah, the abstract connection game invented by Christian Freeling. Packaged as a self-contained tutorial of HTML pages and Java applets, it teaches the rules, walks through tactics and strategy, and presents annotated problems and recorded games for study.The game it…
Hero Quest Designer 2.2 is a HyperCard-based scenario editor for Milton Bradley's Hero Quest board game, archived in Info-Mac as hero-quest-designer-221.hqx. The release pitches itself at players bored of the stock quests who do not want to pay roughly ten dollars for a new official Milton Bradley quest pack.What it do…
Hexdame Tutor is a classic Mac implementation of Hexdame, a hexagonal-board variant of international draughts devised by Christian Freeling. The program presents the rules of the hex-grid game interactively on the Macintosh, oriented toward players learning the variant rather than competitive engine play.The game it te…
Hexomania is a strategic board game for two players, or one player against the computer, in which each side races to build an unbroken path of pieces from one edge of a hexagonal board to the opposite edge. The green player connects the top-left side to the bottom-right; the red player connects the top-right side to th…
Hexx is a 1995 puzzle game for the classic Mac by Phil Stroffolino in which players fire colored hexagons toward the top of the playfield, matching three or more of a color to dissolve them and clear the board. Each cleared screen advances the player to the next stage, and the original download bundles two level sets t…
HexxII is a colorful, action-puzzle game in the spirit of Bust-a-Move/Puzzle Bobble. It's great fun, and a must have for fans of Tetris variants.
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Hiarcs Chess 1.0 Demo is the Macintosh demonstration release of the HIARCS commercial chess program, a multi-time computer chess world champion in its DOS incarnation. The demo plays full games and loads positions, but ships with reduced playing strength and several disabled features.Engine PedigreeHIARCS - Higher Inte…
HipHop 1.0 is a compact PowerPC-era board game by an author credited only as Tim, distributed through the developer site galatoire.com. The Info-Mac submission describes the title plainly as "a simple board game," pitched at players who want a short, focused diversion rather than a sprawling strategy outing.A simple bo…
Hotel '02 is a freeware 2D board game for classic Mac OS, written by French developer F. Baronnet in RealBasic in roughly three weeks as his first real video game. Players race to build hotels and trade in antiquities to amass the largest fortune, in a design that openly borrows from Monopoly and similar property-tradi…
Hyper Tic Tac Toe is a Classic Mac shareware variant on the familiar three-in-a-row game, preserved in the Macintosh software archive. The hyper qualifier in the title points to an expanded board or extended ruleset rather than a strict three-by-three grid, but no Macintosh Garden entry or curator note was recovered to…
Indovina is a 1999 Italian-flavored deduction game by DAPPSoft inspired by the classic Guess Who? board game. Players choose one of 24 cartoon faces and race to identify their opponent's hidden character through a series of yes-or-no questions, either against the computer or another player over AppleTalk.GameplayEach m…
io.folders.chess 1.1 is an unusual shareware release by Will Io (a pseudonym of Dwayne Petrey) that turns custom Finder folders and desktop patterns into functional chess sets. The pieces move freely on the desktop, hold captured pieces, are arranged automatically by scripts, and respect Label colors.Sets includedOne s…
The Joy Of Hex is a turn-based, hex-map strategy wargame released in 2000 by hobbyist developer Single Brain Cell. Modelled on classic battalion-level World War II board wargames such as the V for Victory and World At War series, it ships with around fifty pre-built scenarios and a full editor for designing unlimited c…
Kalaha is a Macintosh implementation of the ancient Egyptian sowing board game, part of the wider Mancala family of seed-and-pit games whose origins trace back roughly seven thousand years. The Mac port packages the simple but addictive two-player rules in a compact System 7 application distributed as shareware.Gamepla…
Kaz's Checkers is a 1996 Macintosh checkers program by Andrew Kisliakov, written in Symantec Think Pascal 4.0 as a Year 12 Computing Studies assessment project at Trinity Grammar School in Sydney. Despite its student-project origins, it offers a complete checkers experience for classic Mac OS.Modes of PlayPlayers can c…
KnightEdit 1.5.2 is a chess notation editor for the Classic Mac, released in October 1992 by Eric Peters and distributed as shareware by Carpenter Software of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The author is careful to note that KnightEdit is not a computer chess opponent. It reads and writes long algebraic notation and animates…
La Brisca is a Spanish-language Macintosh implementation of the Italian/Spanish trick-taking card game Brisca, written by Valeriano Setien in Zaragoza, Spain. The author submitted this complete version for the Info-Mac board-games folder, and the read-me notes the program's interface and text are entirely in Spanish.Ga…
Land Slide is a 1993 two-player strategy board game by John O'Fallon, published by Maxum Development Corp. for the classic Macintosh. On a 16x16 grid of hexes, opposing players race to build an unbroken chain of territory across the map while simultaneously trying to block their opponent's bridge from reaching the far …
Le Satellitaire is a pegged solitaire puzzle game built as a HyperCard stack by Claude Vanolst of Luxembourg. The classic peg-jumping board is presented in a clean black-and-white HyperCard interface, distributed as a small demo file freely redistributable on CD-ROM compilations or otherwise.GameplayLike traditional pe…