Dart Board

Dart Board is a 1997 Macintosh sports shareware title by Jim Plamondon that turns the desktop into a virtual dart lane. Players throw darts at a digital board with the mouse, choose between six game modes, and can swap in any PICT image to use as a custom target, including the bundled novelty boards of U.S. politicians.

Game modes

Six selectable modes cover a range of darts variants, letting players move beyond simple bullseye practice into the scoring rules used in pub-style matches. The chosen mode determines how throws are tallied and when a session ends.

Custom boards

One of Dart Board's signature features is its support for arbitrary PICT files as the target image. Anything that can be saved or scanned into the standard Mac picture format can be loaded as a board, and the package ships with parody targets featuring the president, the vice president, and the Speaker of the House.

Versions

Two builds are catalogued on Macintosh Garden, v1.0.5 and v1.0.6, both distributed as fat binaries that run on Mac OS 9. The changelog between the two point releases is not documented on the listing.

System requirements

Dart Board requires a 68030, 68040, or PowerPC Mac running System 7 or later, with a 640x480 monitor in 256 colors or better, 2 MB of RAM, and roughly 1 MB of disk space.