Line Up! is a 1993 Macintosh take on Connect Four by Berrie Kremers. Players drop colored cubes from the top of a grid and try to line up four of the same color horizontally, vertically, or diagonally before their opponent does, in either single-player or two-player mode.GameplayEach turn you choose a column; the cube …
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Lose Your Marbles is a head-to-head puzzle game released by SegaSoft in 1997, with a Mac port distributed alongside the original Windows version. Players slide three columns of colored marbles up and down to line up matches faster than their opponent, who is busy trying to bury them under falling pieces.GameplayEach si…
Luminous Chess is a 1997 two-player chess program for 68k Macintosh written by Joseph J. Strout. Its distinguishing feature is a board whose squares are color-coded to show the influence of each piece, turning positional pressure into something you can read at a glance. It supports standard Chess and the Grand Chess va…
A game of checkers, including a board editor, playing against the computer, scoring, descriptions of the computer's play analysis, and the ability to save games.
Freeware.
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FREE! chess software. Master strength, loads of features, very polished. (For PowerMacs only - MacChess 2.5.1 is still the current 68K version). Very popular: Over 40,000 downloads of MacChess 2.x on AOL. (If you have MacChess 3.0, download 3.0.e only if you want to have MacChess play automatically against other Mac ch…
MacChess is a solid freeware chess program for the Classic Mac by Wim van Beusekom, first released in 1995 and updated through the late 1990s. It offers a clean top-down board, an in-built engine, and the kind of unfussy presentation that made it a long-running staple of System 7 and Mac OS 9 chess players.GameplayPlay…
MacChess is a solid Classic Mac OS chess program written by Wim van Beusekom and first released in 1996. Distributed as shareware in both English and Dutch language editions, it became a popular choice on 68k and early PowerPC Macintoshes for casual and serious chess play alike.Engine and PlayMacChess provides a comple…
MacChess is a free, master-strength chess program for the Macintosh by Wim van Beusekom, copyright 1999. Version 5.01 is the PowerPC-native release; a parallel 2.5.1 build remained available for 68K Macs. MacChess 2.5 was for years the most-downloaded file in the AOL Mac Board Games library, with more than 26,000 downl…
MacFIBS is a native Macintosh client for FIBS, the First Internet Backgammon Server. It lets a player log in to the public FIBS service, find a partner, play rated matches against opponents around the world, watch ongoing games, or simply chat with other backgammon enthusiasts, all through a familiar Mac-style interfac…
MacIago X 3.5 by ChrisLi is a freeware Mac OS X strategy game based on the classic Othello / Reversi board game. Its name and design are an explicit homage to the 1984 Macintosh game Iago by David Reed, carrying that lineage forward into a modern multilingual release.How play worksTwo sides take turns placing pieces on…
MacLife 2.0 is an implementation of Conway's game of Life for the macintosh. Conway's game of life is a simple cellular automation, wherein cells live or die depending on the quantity of naboring cells.
Right now (version 2.0) this program is still VERY simple and bare bones, although version 2.0 is a complete rewrite…
MasterMind 1.1 is a 1993 Mac implementation of the classic code-breaking board game by Arthur Edelstein. The player tries to deduce a hidden sequence of colored pegs in as few guesses as possible, with each round graded by black-and-white feedback markers in the familiar Mastermind tradition.The classic deduction puzzl…
Mac Pgn is a Classic Mac OS utility for reading and replaying chess games stored in Portable Game Notation, the plain-text format adopted by the chess world in the early 1990s for sharing annotated games. It loads PGN files, walks through the moves on a graphical board, and lets the user follow tournament play and stud…
MacQubic is a Macintosh implementation of Qubic, the classic 3D tic-tac-toe game played across four stacked 4x4 boards. Written by Eric David Belsley and David A. Belsley, the program has long been considered the strongest Mac entry in the genre. The version preserved here is 3.2, released in August 1995 as a fat binar…
MacTurnover is John Lindal's Macintosh implementation of Othello (Reversi), first released in 1991 and updated through version 1.2.2 in 1992. Players can match wits against the computer, hand the mouse to a friend for a head-to-head game, or sit back and watch the computer play itself.GameplayThe standard Othello rules…
Mancala 1.0 is a Macintosh implementation of the ancient African stone-and-pits game, released May 22, 1994 by Todd Clements (tclement@osiris.ac.hmc.edu) of Harvey Mudd College. It is the first public release of the program and is filed in the Info-Mac board-games directory alongside several later, independent Mancala …
Mancala Sounds is a small companion download for Jamie Kowalski's 1989 Macintosh shareware version of Mancala, the ancient pit-and-pebble strategy game played on a board of twelve small pits and two larger home stores. The package supplies replacement sound resources that the main Mancala application loads at runtime.W…
Marienbad is a Macintosh implementation of the classic mathematical game Nim, written by David A. Belsley of Boston College. Version 4.2, released in July 1995, modernised the original 1988 release with a face lift, color icons, and a fat binary built in CodeWarrior so that it runs natively on both 68k and PowerPC Macs…
This is a HyperCard stack that simulates the classic board game Master Mind. The graphics are superb and the gameplay is addictive. The interface is straightforward and elegant. It comes complete with balloon help, online help and documentation.
Master Mind is a simple game of logic. The object is to guess a secret co…
Memo+ is a Macintosh memory card game in which players try to find matching pairs of cards turned face down on the table. The author bundles two distinct modes and a tournament organizer with statistics tracking, plus a small tool for users who want to author their own card-set plug-ins.Game modesThe first mode is the …
Mr.Mind is a small freeware code-breaking game for the classic Macintosh, written and uploaded by Chan Kwok Wing of Hong Kong. As the author puts it, Mr.Mind is a game like MasterMind - the player tries to deduce a hidden code from feedback on successive guesses, the same loop that made the peg-and-board original famou…
Naughts & Crosses 4.0 is a straightforward Macintosh implementation of tic-tac-toe by M. Boxall (mboxall@whitley.unimelb.edu.au). It supports two-player matches against a friend, single-player matches against the computer, and a zero-player mode in which the computer plays itself.GameplayStandard 3x3 tic-tac-toe (k…
Net Othello 1.1b2 is a networked implementation of the classic disc-flipping board game Othello (Reversi) for Classic Mac OS, written by Andrew McGeachie at Boston University and submitted to Info-Mac in August 1993. It lets several users on an AppleTalk network play multiple simultaneous games against different oppone…
NetRisk is a network-aware Macintosh clone of the classic Parker Brothers board game Risk, written by Roy Wood and published under the Silicon Angst Software banner. It is built around AppleTalk so that up to six players on compact Macs can conquer the world together over a local network. The version preserved here is …
Net Tac Toe is a networked take on the classic three-in-a-row paper game, built for Classic Mac OS so two players on separate Macs can square off across an AppleTalk network or local connection rather than passing a single mouse back and forth at one keyboard.GameplayStandard 3x3 tic-tac-toe rules: alternate placing X …
Nubb is an inventive 1993 puzzle game for the Classic Macintosh by Benn Blincoe, published by Laughing Fish and Pointware. Macintosh Garden describes it as a title that superficially resembles Pipe Dream but owes more to Tetris in its actual play, and Info-Mac's own blurb pitches it as an interesting and original strat…
Online Tic-Tac-Toe is a multi-user game add-on for the FirstClass Bulletin Board System on Macintosh, released as version 2.0 by Kitty-Kat Software in November 1994. Rather than a standalone application, it is a package of files that update both the FirstClass client settings and the server configuration so members of …
Ortograf is a Macintosh Scrabble-style word game written by Gilles Blanchette of Logiciels Ortograf, distributed through the Quebec-based teamsoft.com. The Info-Mac archive preserves both the English 1.0 release and a French-language 1.0 (FR) sibling, each shipping the same engine with localised interface and word list…
Ortograf is a Macintosh Scrabble-style word game by Gilles Blanchette of Logiciels Ortograf (Teamsoft), released in both English and French editions. Distributed through the Info-Mac board-game archive as ortograf-10.hqx and ortograf-10-fr.hqx, it offers four difficulty levels and five game modes wrapped in a polished …
OTChess 1.5.2 is a two-player peer-to-peer Internet chess program for the classic Macintosh, released in late 1997. It uses Open Transport for networking, with one player acting as host and the other connecting by name or IP address; cancelling the connection dialog drops the game into a local single-user mode.Networki…
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Ouvrez Le Ban 1.1 is a French-language HyperCard stack distributed in BinHex form for Classic Mac. As a HyperCard title it ships as a stack of cards with scripted buttons and fields, run inside Apple's HyperCard player on System 6 or System 7. The release notes inside the BinHex header identify it as a French shareware…
Pegged by Cary Torkelson is a 1994 Classic Mac take on the traditional peg solitaire puzzle, in which the player jumps pegs over one another to remove them from the board, aiming to leave a single peg standing. It saw multiple shareware revisions across the System 6 through Mac OS 9 lifetime.How to playEach move jumps …
Pente is a shareware Macintosh implementation of the classic board game Pente, submitted to Info-Mac in December 1992 by Michael A. Black. Players win by lining up five of their stones in a row or by capturing five pairs of opposing stones, and the Mac version offers three modes of play across three difficulty levels.R…
Pentominoes 2.0 is a piece-placing puzzle game by Mark Pilgrim, released in 1995 under MerriMac Software Group. The player must fit twelve pentomino pieces, each made of five unit squares, onto a board with no overlaps. Pieces can be rotated and flipped, but each shape may be placed only once per puzzle.Twelve Pieces, …
PGN Viewer 1.3 is a small Macintosh chess program by Dave Airey of Cornell University's Department of Psychology, posted to Info-Mac in March 1995. It loads games stored in Portable Game Notation - the plain-text format used by virtually every chess database - and lets you step through them move by move on a graphical …