Raam

RAAM is a divination-style shareware program for classic Mac OS in which the user draws cards on screen to stimulate intuition and predict their own future. Released as version 1.0 by an Australian author (blakelec@ozemail.com.au), it is a small oracle/cartomancy toy rather than a conventional card game.

How It Works

RAAM presents a deck of cards on screen and invites the user to draw and interpret them as prompts for personal reflection. Per the author's own description, the cards are intended to "stimulate your intuition and predict your own future" rather than enforce a specific game's rules. The experience sits closer to a tarot or oracle deck than to a solitaire engine.

Shareware Model

RAAM is distributed as nag-limited shareware. The unregistered version disables the open and save commands plus a subset of the cards in the deck; paying the twenty US dollar registration fee unlocks the full deck and file handling. The download itself is roughly 2.5 MB.

Origin

The program was contributed to Info-Mac by an author at ozemail.com.au, an Australian internet provider of the 1990s, suggesting an independent Australian shareware author working in the small-scale spiritual-software niche that was active on the Mac in that era.

System Requirements

RAAM needs Mac OS 7 or later, prefers a PowerPC processor (though 68k is supported), 4 MB of RAM and a 256-color display. There are no networking requirements, the application is entirely local.