Spades
| Filename | spades.hqx |
|---|---|
| Size | 5,095.6 KB (5217876 bytes) |
| Downloads | 5 |
Spades is an early-1990s shareware Spades card game for Classic Mac OS, credited on Macintosh Garden to Michael Wolf and preserved as version 0.50. It is a minimal, single-developer take on partnership Spades for 68k Macs running System 6 or 7, predating the better-known Freeverse Deluxe family by several years and reflecting the bare-bones aesthetic of the period.
Gameplay
Four players sit at the table — the user plus three computer-controlled opponents — and bidding starts with the player clockwise from the dealer, each declaring how many of the thirteen tricks they expect to take. Spades are always trump; players who make their bid score, while those who fall short are penalised. The presentation is functional rather than animated, with cards drawn in plain bitmap style.
Engine and technical changes
The application is a tiny 68k binary distributed as Spades_v0.50.sit (around 20 KB packed). Macintosh Garden lists it as compatible with the early System line through Mac OS 9, and it runs trivially under Mini vMac and Basilisk II. The 0.50 version number and lack of later releases suggest the project never moved past its initial public build.
Development and release
Wolf released Spades as a freely circulating shareware/freeware utility through Mac shareware mirrors of the 68k era; the entry on Macintosh Garden was uploaded in 2024 by user moof to round out the site's coverage of vintage card-game shareware. There is no published documentation of subsequent versions or commercial distribution.
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.
