Scopa

Scopa is a Macintosh shareware adaptation of the traditional Italian fishing card game of the same name, written by Fabio Lecca of the Universita di Roma La Sapienza. The Info-Mac archive preserves both the English-language 2.0 release and the later Italian-language 2.1, which between them carry the full set of regional Italian decks supported by the program.

About the game

The author's submission notes describe Scopa simply as "a traditional Italian card game" implemented as Mac shareware. The README for version 2.0 recommends a 13-inch colour monitor and QuickTime 2.0 or later for the in-game music, but otherwise states the program will run on "any Mac" of the period. Italian and English text in the README mirror each other line-for-line.

Editions and decks

Version 2.0 ships as a single English-language build. Version 2.1, distributed in Italian, adds support for several additional regional Italian deck designs - Napoletane, Piacentine, Sarde, and Trevisane - alongside whatever decks were already present in 2.0. Both versions are siblings of the same shareware product.

Author and registration

Scopa was written by Fabio Lecca (lecca@dsi.uniroma1.it). Shareware registration was handled through Kagi, the standard 1990s shareware payment service, at cedlecca@kagi.com.

Provenance

The descriptive details above come from the README text embedded in the BinHex envelopes of scopa-20.hqx and scopa-21-it.hqx as preserved in the Info-Mac mirror. No Macintosh Garden or MobyGames page was located for the Mac edition during enrichment, so no further metadata or screenshots have been added.