Swap 'em Over is a colorful PowerPC puzzle game from Swedish developer Claes Jacobsson under his Sevensquare label, distributed in late-1990s shareware channels via the Info-Mac archive (game/brd/swap-em-over-15.hqx). The author pitched it as more than another puzzle clone.ConceptThe release notes describe the game as …
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Tac Tickle is an abstract two-player strategy board game for the Classic Mac, released in 1992 by John Lindal and published by Absoft Corp. Players take turns sliding their pieces sideways by one square, racing to be the first to line up a target number of pieces in a row.GameplayYou and your opponent alternate moves o…
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Tempest Chess is an online Chess game for FirstClass BBSes. It works via FirstClass forms, so does not require the BBS to be configured for its use. Full documentation included.
It requires FirstClass 2.5 or later for Macintosh, and is distributed as fr…
TicRemote 1.0 is a small Macintosh shareware release by Eelco van Beek that turns tic-tac-toe into a two-player network game played over the Internet. The author pitched it as the first entry in a planned series of remote-play board games, distributed through Info-Mac in the mid-1990s.Tic-tac-toe over the InternetThe h…
Tic-Tac-Toe by Jordan Pinsker is a 1993 Classic Mac implementation of the timeless three-in-a-row board game, offering both a single-player mode against the computer and a hot-seat option for two human players. At about 21 KB it is a quintessential System 7-era pocket diversion.GameplayPlayers take turns placing X and …
Tic Tac Toe 1.0 is a polished take on the classic noughts-and-crosses game by A. Blin, released as Macintosh shareware. The package pairs the simple three-in-a-row rules with detailed three-dimensional graphics and a soundtrack, aiming for a smooth and addictive arcade-style feel rather than the usual bare grid.Gamepla…
Traffic is a shareware sliding-block puzzle game for Classic Mac OS by reddlew, released as version 1.0.1 in the late 1990s. You shuffle cars and trucks around a gridlocked board with the single goal of clearing a path so the silver car can escape onto the open road.GameplayEach puzzle starts with the silver car boxed …
Trampchess 1.0 is a freeware HyperCard stack by Carl Backstrom, released under his Nisseb Softwares label. Despite the name, it is not standard chess: it is a three-in-a-row strategy game with a built-in computer opponent that the author cheekily challenges the player to outsmart against "a pot of cables and chips."Gam…
Trist is a 1993 Macintosh board game by Tom Gooding inspired by the ancient sowing family that includes Mancala. Players move stones around a shared board and try to land on squares holding two or three stones, capturing them for points. A built-in tutorial and adjustable settings ease newcomers into the rules.How it p…
Tri-Tac-Toe is a Classic Macintosh take on tic-tac-toe by Seth Tabberer, originally submitted to Info-Mac in 1994 on Tabberer's behalf by Scott Feneley. The game keeps the familiar three-in-a-row rules but replaces flat X and O glyphs with three-dimensional rendered shapes on a perspective board.3D twist on a classicTh…
Unite is a 1991 two-player abstract strategy board game by Kevin Gong, derived from the classic Lines of Action concept. Players take turns sliding pieces across a grid, racing to be the first to connect every one of their stones into a single contiguous group, a deceptively simple goal that leads to deep tactical play…
Vampire Chess is James Burton's 1994 chess-and-checkers hybrid in which all the pieces look like vampires. Originally released as a demo from his Stanford account, the Info-Mac upload was the full version - the subject line cheerfully announces "Vampire Chess (no longer a demo!)" - with multiple selectable piece graphi…
Vanessa Chess is a 1999 chess program for the classic Mac OS from Manfred Schubert (Schubert-it), notable for being the first multi-document, multithreaded chess application on the Macintosh. It pairs a strong native chess engine with an interface built around standard Mac document conventions, PGN interchange, and HTM…
Vier Gewinnt is a German-language Classic Mac implementation of Connect Four, the vertical four-in-a-row game where two players drop colored discs into a seven-column grid and race to line up four of their own pieces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally before their opponent.GameplayStandard Connect Four rules: pick…
Waste Of Time is a small Macintosh shareware diversion preserved in the classic Mac archive. As the name suggests, it is a deliberately lightweight time-killer rather than a deep game - the kind of single-purpose toy that thrived in the System 7 and Mac OS 8 shareware ecosystem, distributed in compressed StuffIt and Bi…
World Championship Checkers Lite is the freely distributable Classic Mac edition of Gil Dodgen and Ed Trice's tournament-strength checkers engine, released around 1997 as a cut-down companion to the commercial World Championship Checkers (later WCC Gold and Platinum). The Lite build ships the same core search engine on…
Xiola is a memory board game for the classic Mac, distributed as shareware in the mid-1990s by Caesar B. Vielmas of Houston, Texas. It tests recall by playing a sequence of musical notes and asking you to repeat them by clicking multi-colored buttons on screen.GameplayEach round plays a tune, then waits for the player …
Yacht-3D is Roger Eastman's 1997 take on the classic Yacht/Yahtzee dice game for Mac OS, distinguished by rendered three-dimensional dice rolling on a tabletop felt rather than the flat sprites typical of the era. Macintosh Garden preserves a PowerPC build for Mac OS 9 that is also playable under SheepShaver.GameplayIt…
This is a maintenance release of YA-Mancala that (hopefully) addresses the proverbial post-release bugs in YA-Mancala v1.0.
Attention all board game lovers: here is YA-Mancala v1.0.1 (Yet-Another Mancala). This program is, as the name suggests, an implementation of the classic board game Mancala. For those who don't k…
Requires 8-bit color
A grid is divided into zones by two lines which intersect at a particular point. When you click on a point the computer will draw a dot, the color red, blue, yellow, or green indicating which zone that dot is in. If the point is on or very close to a line, you'll get a white dot. The goal is to fi…