Outland Card Lobby
| Filename | outland-card-lobby-111.hqx |
|---|---|
| Size | 215.0 KB (220187 bytes) |
| Mac OS | System 7 |
| Architecture | 68K |
| Downloads | 9 |
Outland Card Lobby is the card-game lobby client for the Outland online gaming service, a mid-1990s Macintosh-focused multiplayer network. The lobby application let registered Outland members find opponents, chat, and launch into card games hosted on the service's servers from a single Mac OS desktop entry point.
The Outland Service
Outland was a subscription multiplayer gaming network aimed at Macintosh users in the mid to late 1990s. It hosted match-making and game servers for a small library of titles, with separate lobby clients fronting each game category.
Card Lobby Role
The Card Lobby client handled the card-game wing of that catalog. Players logged in, browsed open tables and chat rooms, and joined a seat to start a game with whoever else was online.
Preservation Note
Outland's central servers are long gone, so this client is preserved for historical reference rather than live play. The binary is most useful for studying period multiplayer Mac client design and Outland's lobby protocol surface.
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.
