Prelude
| Filename | prelude.hqx |
|---|---|
| Size | 685.4 KB (701821 bytes) |
| Downloads | 12 |
Prelude is the opening chapter of The Icthian Project, a 1998 point-and-click adventure for the Mac built by Daniel Davis at D.C. Inc. using GameMaker. Archived in Info-Mac as prelude.hqx and on Macintosh Garden as TheIcthianProject_Prelude.sit, it casts the player as a prominent scientist in 2300 AD, just back from a mission to Icarud.
Premise
The player's assistant Mortimer reports that a fusion generation unit the scientist has been developing is nearly complete, but communications with three production regions have gone dark. A competing scientific firm is the obvious suspect.
Engine and perspective
Macintosh Garden lists Prelude as a point-and-click adventure built on GameMaker #1, the same Mac authoring system behind a long line of late-90s shareware adventures.
Compatibility
The Macintosh Garden listing tags the game for System 7.0 through 7.6 and Mac OS 9 on 68k architecture, with SheepShaver called out as a known-good emulation target.
Distribution
Info-Mac distributes the BinHexed copy as game/prelude.hqx; Macintosh Garden mirrors a 553 KB StuffIt build (MD5 18f8ae2460b2574938cfda53fceb0212) and credits Daniel Davis as author and D.C. Inc. as publisher.
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.
