Quovadis

Quo Vadis is a 1991 black-and-white sliding-tile puzzle for the classic Macintosh by Andrea Pellizzon. A compact implementation of the well-known Klotski puzzle, it is preserved in the Macintosh Garden archive as a small Compact Pro archive and runs cleanly across the System 6 to Mac OS 9 era under emulators such as Mini vMac and SheepShaver.

The Klotski Puzzle

Klotski is a 10-tile sliding puzzle in which the player must maneuver a large square block out of a confined frame by sliding the surrounding rectangular and square pieces around it. There is no rotation or lifting; only orthogonal slides into adjacent empty space.

Mac Implementation

Pellizzon's Mac version preserves the classic layout and rules in a tidy black-and-white window suited to the original compact Mac displays. Its small footprint (around 56 KB packed) made it a popular bulletin-board and shareware-disk inclusion in the early 1990s.

Compatibility

The early 68k build runs from System 6 in Mini vMac up through Mac OS 9 in SheepShaver, making it one of the more emulation-friendly puzzlers from the period.

Preservation

Quovadis.cpt is mirrored in the Mac shareware archive and listed on Macintosh Garden, where its single screenshot documents the spartan but readable puzzle interface.