PMChess-Clock is a freeware chess clock for the Macintosh by Francois DeBlois. It does exactly what its name suggests: provides a software chess clock for two players sharing one Mac. The program is a fat application, tested on both 68K and PowerPC hardware, and ships with documentation alongside the application.Purpos…
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Poly-Dol 1.09 is a Classic Mac OS board puzzle by S. T. Hong (STH at ecl.psu.edu), a sibling to Poly-Tile. Color pieces sit on a hexagonal or square grid, and the player rearranges them by sliding lines or rotating groups, with the goal of matching a target shape supplied by the puzzle.GameplayPlayers slide pieces alon…
PolyMine is a classic Macintosh shareware puzzle game that reworks the familiar Minesweeper formula on non-rectangular, polyomino-style boards. Instead of the standard square grid, cells are arranged in alternative tilings that change how neighbors relate to one another, giving the deduction puzzle a fresh geometry.Con…
Poly-Off is a solitaire board puzzle for the classic Macintosh, distributed via Info-Mac by STH at Penn State. The goal is deceptively simple: turn every piece on the board grey. Clicking a piece flips its color and the colors of some of its neighbors, with the affected pattern depending on the shape of the switch you …
Polyominoes is a 1989 top-down puzzle game for the Classic Macintosh by Kevin Gong, a Tetris-lineage falling-piece game generalised to polyomino shapes. Built as a 68k application, it runs across the System 6 through Mac OS 9 era and remains playable today under Mini vMac, Basilisk II, and SheepShaver.GameplayThe game …
Poly-Peg is S. T. Han's 1996 take on Peg Solitaire, distributed as part of the Poly-Series shareware bundle of enhanced puzzle-game clones. Players jump pegs over their neighbors to remove them, working a board down toward a single survivor under rules and shapes the user can configure.Customizable BoardsThe Poly-Serie…
Poly-Tile 1.09 is a peg-solitaire-style board game by S. T. Hong (STH at ecl.psu.edu) for Classic Mac OS. Color pieces sit on either a hexagonal or square grid, and the player jumps pieces over neighbors, removing the jumped piece, with the goal of leaving exactly one piece on the board in as few moves as possible.Game…
Property 1.0 is a Mac board-game simulation in the familiar buy-streets-and-build-houses mold, written in THINK C by Graham Loader and themed around the Reading area of England. It was distributed through Info-Mac as a small independent shareware title, with the author flagging it as a first release that may still harb…
Quarto is a 1996 Macintosh implementation of the modern abstract strategy board game by Alan Weiss, version 1.0. Players race to declare a line of four pieces sharing at least one common attribute -- a deceptively simple rule that produces sharp tactical play on a small board.The rulesEach piece carries four binary att…
RChess 2.2.2 is a free, deliberately humorous Macintosh chess program by Robert Purves (with notes from Richard A. Fowell). Its self-described market gap is that it can actually be beaten at its lower levels, and it is given away gratis with no shareware nag or registration request attached.Playing StrengthThe author r…
Dear Moderator,
This is a repost of a recent submission of the file Risk_II.sit.hqx. Please submit this into your info-mac/game directory this last time. This is a colorized version (modified using ResEdit) of the old black/white Risk! This makes excellent use of the 256-color mode of any color Macintosh with a color …
Risk II Improver is a small third-party patch for Risk II, the colorized Mac version of the classic world-domination board game. Created by schreib1@marshall.edu, it enables backgrounding so the game cooperates with other Mac applications and fixes a recurring dialog box error that nagged players of the original releas…
Roll The Bones is a Macintosh dice game by Mikael Sheikh, described by the author as a rather simple implementation of games resembling the classic American dice games Yahtzee and Triple Yahtzee. Distributed through Info-Mac as version 3.2.0, it targets a broad range of classic Mac OS releases.Yahtzee-style gameplayThe…
SargoNoidz is a fast-paced action and strategy puzzle game for the Classic Mac by Rich "Akira" Pizor (pizor@lclark.edu), submitted to Info-Mac in September 1994. Set on a chessboard, the player steers a small face with the keypad and must cross every square at least once before time runs out -- while a growing army of …
Screamer Book is not a board game in its own right but a replacement opening book file for Screamer, a free, master-strength, ExaChess-compatible chess engine for the classic Mac. It expands the engine's library of memorized opening moves, so the AI plays stronger, more varied openings before falling back on its own se…
Screamer Chess is a freely distributed PowerPC chess engine by William Bryant, packaged with a Mac front-end, an opening book, elementary endgame tablebases, and complete documentation. By build 57 the engine plays at a tournament-level strength of roughly 2,380 ELO / 2,560 USCF on the author's G3 tower, with a Mac OS …
SGFFileHelper 1.2 by Peter Berck is a Macintosh utility for Go players who keep large collections of game records in the Smart Game Format or Ishi format. Drop a folder of games on the application and it lists every file in a window with metadata pulled from each record, then hands the chosen game off to an external vi…
Showwit! is a 1996 freeware tile-flipping puzzle from Patrick C. Hew, where a 4x4 grid of tiles conceals a hidden picture and clicking a tile flips it (and a cascading set of neighbours) between revealed and hidden states. The challenge is to puzzle out the right sequence to expose the image.GameplayEach tile click fli…
Side Minder is a small Classic Mac OS utility preserved in the Macintosh Garden shareware collection. Like many one-author tools from the System 7 / Mac OS 8 era, it was distributed as a BinHex-encoded StuffIt archive through Info-Mac and personal FTP mirrors, and survives today only through community preservation.Abou…
Sigma Chess is a long-running, master-strength chess program for the Macintosh by Danish developer Ole K. Christensen, distinguished by a polished native Mac interface, a deep analysis engine, and three-dimensional perspective board that made it one of the most full-featured shareware and freeware chess clients on the …
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To the Info-Mac Moderators:
Here is a revision of a pd game. The creator of this game put it out with the invitation that other folks add to it, which is what's happened. One person in California revised it to use the Simpson icons that…
Smashing Pumpkins 13 Gunshy is a fan skin for Gunshy v1.3, the Macintosh shareware card game. It re-themes the standard Gunshy interface around imagery from the alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins, swapping in custom card backs, backgrounds, and graphics while leaving the underlying game logic untouched.What Gu…
Snack Attack is a children's roll-and-move board game for Macintosh from TJMW Enterprises, designed for ages 3 to 7. This entry is the version 1.1 update: a maintenance release that bundles bug fixes and ships as a fat binary so it runs natively on both 68k and PowerPC Macs. Gameplay is identical to the original 1.0 bo…
Jacem Tissaoui's Snakes And Ladders is a Macintosh take on the centuries-old Indian board game, known in the United States as Chutes and Ladders. Aimed primarily at children, this PowerPC release doubles as a gentle drill for counting and addition while keeping the original race-to-the-finish loop intact.The classic bo…
Snow Col Boxes is a small Macintosh implementation of the classic pencil-and-paper game dots-and-boxes, written in 1995 as a class project by students of Computer Science 112 at Snow College in Ephraim, Utah, under instructor Russell Baird. It was uploaded to Info-Mac alongside two sibling student projects.The gamePlay…
Snow Col Pseudo Checkers is part of a small bundle of class projects produced by students in Computer Science 112 at Snow College, taught by instructor Russell Baird. The package was uploaded in June 1995 and showcases a checkers-style board game written as a course exercise on the Macintosh.OriginThe game came out of …
Snow Col Tic Tac Toe is a Macintosh implementation of the classic three-in-a-row game, produced as a class project for Computer Science 112 at Snow College in Utah and posted to Info-Mac in June 1995 by instructor's contact Mark Gardner (gard9525@badger.snow.edu).OriginThe program is one of several class projects from …
Square Wars Plus is a small Classic Mac shareware action-puzzle title in which the playfield is a grid of squares and the contest is for territory. The Plus edition expands an earlier release with extra modes or options layered onto the base mechanic of claiming and defending squares against an opponent.PremiseThe core…
Stones is a freeware Macintosh implementation of the ancient sowing game known variously as Awele, Ouare, Kalah and Mancala. Author Nathaniel Tagg of the University of Guelph chose the neutral name "Stones" rather than pick one regional variant, and shipped a compact single-player game that the author describes as a fu…
Strategic Overrun is a two-player military strategy game for the classic Mac, credited on Macintosh Garden to Eric Anderson and Erik Chen and dated 1996. The Info-Mac upload describes it succinctly as a strategic war game played like a lot of board war games with pieces on a mapped hexboard.Hex-grid wargamingMacintosh …
Strategram is a strategy board game from Artishock, Inc. of New York, distributed in 1997 as a free demo (version 1.0) to preview the full release. The author's pitch frames it as easy to learn, challenging to play, and as addictive as Solitaire or Tetris -- a board-game-shaped puzzle where, as the title hints, strateg…
SuperMind is a 1994 Macintosh implementation of the classic Mastermind code-breaking puzzle, written by Chris Innanen (InWare) of Johns Hopkins APL. It expands the familiar board-game concept by letting the solver choose pattern lengths from 2 up to 10 pegs, with the Mac taking over the referee role so the game plays s…
Super Othello is a polished Mac implementation of the classic Othello/Reversi board game from Norway's Yellow Lemon Software, distributed as a fat binary with eight levels of computer intelligence and a re-rendered 3D look that pushed the board game well past its 1980s ancestors.Play modesPlayers can take on a human op…
Susan is a quick, subtle two-player abstract board game by Stephen Linhart, first released for the Macintosh in 1991 and updated through version 2.5 in 1994. The Mac edition pairs the original board game with a computer opponent that uses a simulated neural network to actually learn from the games it plays.GameplaySusa…
SUSAN 2.5 Pack is the all-in-one bundle of Stephen Linhart's freeware abstract board game SUSAN, a quick and subtle two-player contest. This Complete edition wraps version 2.5 of the Macintosh game together with two color art sets, a strategy manual, and an advanced intelligence file in a single StuffIt Lite archi…
The SUSAN Manual is a plain-text companion to Stephen Linhart's board game SUSAN, a quick and subtle two-player strategy game. Compiled in 1994 by Tao Rodriguez-Seeger as freeware, it bundles an introduction to SUSAN with basic and intermediate strategy tips, including ASCII diagrams designed to travel freely across th…