Color Mind

ColorMind 1.0 is a classic Mastermind-style code-breaking board game by Patrice Mallette, ported to the Macintosh as a FAT (68k/PPC) binary. Players try to deduce a hidden combination of colors before their guesses run out, with French menus, multiple backgrounds, and stereo sound rounding out the experience.

Gameplay

Like the plastic peg-and-board original by Mordecai Meirowitz, ColorMind asks the player to crack a secret color code by submitting guesses and reading the feedback after each row. A correct color in the correct position and a correct color in the wrong position are signaled separately, narrowing the search space until the chances run out or the code is broken.

Mac OS Polish

The game ships with multiple selectable backgrounds and stereo sound effects, both unusual touches for a small shareware deduction game of this era. A built-in French language menu set hints at the author's home market and makes ColorMind one of the few bilingual Mastermind clones on the Info-Mac board game shelf.

System Requirements

ColorMind is distributed as a FAT binary, so it runs natively on both 68k Macs (with Color QuickDraw) and PowerPC machines under classic Mac OS. The author specifies a minimum of 3000K of free application memory to launch the game.

Distribution

Submitted to Info-Mac in 1996 by Jennifer Mallette (augustja@lamar.ColoState.EDU) on behalf of author Patrice Mallette, ColorMind is shareware that the author explicitly permits redistribution of, including bundling on commercial CD-ROM compilations.