Sim Harbor

SimHarbor is a harbor-management simulation for the classic Mac OS by Paul Gronemeyer of AntSoft Entertainment. The city council hands you 200,000 pounds in starting capital and asks you to build a working Atlantic-coast harbor: lay piers, place equipment and storage, and service over 120 distinct ship classes.

What you do

You design the layout of the harbor, balance build costs against shipping revenue, and try to climb into the "green" zone of profitability. Building an efficient pier-and-crane network -- and then keeping ships moving without congestion -- is the core puzzle.

120 ships and a town to please

The 1.2.x line bills itself as "the best looking and best playing harbor simulation of all," with 120 ship types, a wide catalog of buildings, and animated dock activity. Updates added smoother animations (no more "ghost buildings"), tightened the path to profitability, and shored up overall stability.

System requirements

SimHarbor needs a Power Macintosh with a screen between 640x480 and 1024x768. It runs natively on Mac OS 7.x through 9.2 and via the Classic environment on early Mac OS X.

Shareware terms

SimHarbor is shareware with a 30-day trial. The author offered an unusual twist: send a useful bug report or constructive suggestion and your registration is comped. AntSoft tracked the project from a GeoCities site through MacUpdate, MacGameFiles, and VersionTracker listings.