Niftee Tron Aggrivator
| Filename | niftee-tron-aggrivator-10.hqx |
|---|---|
| Size | 856.8 KB (877395 bytes) |
| Downloads | 4 |
Niftee-Tron Aggrivator 1.0 is a deliberately confounding Macintosh puzzle by Charles Mangin (option8@mindspring.com), released as part of his Niftee-Tron line of small Mac diversions. The author set out to design a puzzle even he could not solve, then admitted (after the fact) to having cracked it exactly once.
A Puzzle by Design
The Aggrivator is a single-screen puzzle game with intentionally simple rules but a fiendishly difficult solution. As an extra twist, the author refuses to spell those rules out in the documentation and challenges players to deduce them through experimentation alone.
Floppyware Distribution
Like all Niftee-Tron creations, the Aggrivator is distributed as Floppyware: users are encouraged to copy it onto floppy disks and pass it freely to friends. There is no shareware fee; if the program raises a smile, the author asks only for an email at option8@mindspring.com.
Author
Charles Mangin, who self-identified as a terminal geek and mental hygienist, ran the Niftee-Tron mini-label out of option8.com and mentalhygiene.com. The Aggrivator was uploaded to the Info-Mac game archive as niftee-tron-aggrivator-10.hqx.
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.
