Swoop

This is a second Macintosh Garden upload of Ambrosia Software's Swoop (1995), David Wareing's pulse-quickening Galaxian-style arcade shooter. The primary Garden entry (nid 10809) is already enriched; this duplicate node preserves an alternate package - typically a different version, archive format, or contributor's bundle of the same game.

About the game

Swoop is a fast vertical shoot-em-up in which you defend Earth against the Swoopers, a sinister alien race that has disabled the planet's defenses. The player pilots a "George Pal class fighter ship" through wave after wave of swooping attackers - a classic Galaxian formation pattern enriched with smooth Mac-native animation, full-color sprites, and Ambrosia's trademark sound design.

About this upload

Macintosh Garden carries Swoop under both /games/swoop (the canonical entry, with v1.0.2 and v1.0.1 plus the add-ons package) and this /games/swoop-0 mirror. The "-0" suffix is a Drupal node-uniqueness artifact rather than a version distinction; treat the canonical /games/swoop page as authoritative for binaries and screenshots, and consult the Info-Mac archive at game/arc/swoop-101.hqx for the original 1995 BinHex release with its Swoop High Score Contest README.

System requirements

68k Macintosh, System 7.0 through 7.6 or Mac OS 9. Runs under SheepShaver and Basilisk II for modern emulation. Registered users of the period were eligible for Ambrosia's Swoop High Score Contest (Sept-Dec 1995), with cash and t-shirt prizes - a nice snapshot of mid-90s shareware community marketing.

Credits

Designed and programmed by David Wareing of Adelaide, Australia. Published by Ambrosia Software, Rochester, NY - the same studio behind Maelstrom, Apeiron, and Escape Velocity.