Pod Hell Palace Map
| Filename | pod-hell-palace-map.hqx |
|---|---|
| Size | 12.3 KB (12597 bytes) |
| Downloads | 9 |
This entry preserves a player-made map of the large Hell Palace area from Prince of Destruction, a shareware first-person dungeon crawler released for the Classic Mac in the mid-1990s. The file was contributed to Info-Mac on 24 January 1995 by Pamela Sears (psears@scripps.edu) as a reference aid for navigating that level.
What the file actually is
Despite the MAC catalog title referencing Pathways into Darkness, the bundled BinHex notes describe the map as belonging to the new shareware game Prince of Destruction. The slug pod-hell-palace-map reflects that game (POD = Prince of Destruction), so the parenthetical Pathways into Darkness reference appears to be a cataloging mix-up.
Format
The download is a binhexed, stuffed PICT file -- in other words a single image wrapped in a StuffIt archive and then BinHex 4.0 encoded for safe email and FTP transit. Once decoded and unstuffed, opening the PICT in any Classic Mac drawing application or modern PICT-aware viewer reveals the map.
Why it matters
Hand-drawn level maps were a common community contribution for Classic Mac dungeon games whose own minimaps were either unhelpful or absent. Preserving these maps alongside the games gives modern players a chance to finish levels that were originally beaten by passing maps around on bulletin boards and FTP.
Where it lives in the archive
The file is mirrored at info-mac/game/arc/pod-hell-palace-map.hqx; the arc subdirectory is the Info-Mac convention for archive-format (Stuffed) attachments rather than directly executable content.
This file is part of the MacTrove archive. See the Thank You page for the upstream mirrors we rely on. It is BinHex encoded — use The Unarchiver to decode it.
