Pop Rocket's November 1995 CD-ROM, designed by Spaceship Warlock and Radiskull and Devil Doll creator Joe Sparks, casts you as a freelance music-video producer who has just paid an alien for a one-way trip to the Distortion Dimension, a parallel universe of guitar-shredding pop ephemera. You run a satellite studio, hun…

Rocket Science Games and SegaSoft's five-CD adventure, released January 10, 1997 on Windows and May 13 on Mac, sets you down in the year 2066 as nanotech engineer Lilah Kerlins, asleep in a tent next to a black mountain that should not exist. The mountain is what is left of Ceres, an atmospheric repair satellite that h…

Blades of Exile is Spiderweb Software's 1997 RPG and scenario construction kit by Jeff Vogel, the fourth Exile title. This upload represents a later distribution of the game (likely a Carbon-era or post-2007 open-source build), packaging the Exile III engine with three official scenarios and the tools to author and pla…

Synergy Inc.'s 1993 Japanese interactive movie, expanded by Cryo Interactive into the 1997 four-CD Past as Future edition, drops you into a dieselpunk dictatorship where streamlined trains, brass instrument panels, and 1930s flying machines are state-of-the-art tomorrow tech. You play a government agent hunting the mis…

Inscape's November 28, 1995 CD-ROM, written and directed by avant-garde collective the Residents and animated by Jim Ludtke, drops you into a sun-bleached roadside carnival where a coma victim, a serial killer, plague, and the IRS are all converging on the same eleven hours. You start as ten-year-old Timmy and can hop …

The Manhole is an open-ended children's adventure created by Rand and Robyn Miller at Cyan, Inc. and released in November 1988 for the black-and-white Macintosh. Built entirely in HyperCard with HyperTalk, it lets players lift a manhole cover and wander a beanstalk-fed world of whimsical locales. It is the foundational…

Osamu Sato's 1994 first-person point-and-click adventure, published by Sony Music Entertainment Japan, casts the player as Rin on the soul-eating island of Tong Nou, a landmass shaped like a human head modeled on Sato's own. Borrowing an artificial soul good for 49 days, Rin must complete nine missions, dying and reinc…

Cliff Johnson's 1987 puzzle classic casts you as the Fool wandering a Tarot-themed kingdom, weaving short story chapters together with dozens of inset puzzles. Solving acrostics, jigsaws, and cryptograms gradually reveals a hidden meta-puzzle, the Book of Thoth, that ties the whole narrative together.Story and structur…

This FileMaker 4 (easily converted to FileMaker 5) database provides drag and drop indexing of disks and folders. It gathers information about each file, such as path, name, size, dates, type, creator etc., during indexing. Plus, it has the speed and power of a relational db. Duplicate files can be determined almost in…

Adobe Acrobat is a family of application software and web services developed by Adobe Inc. to view, create, manipulate, print and manage Portable Document Format (PDF) files.From Wikipedia: Adobe Acrobat (CC BY-SA 4.0)

APPLES BC E-NEWS A FREE electronic newsletter by Corbett Enders & Chris Stevens, co-editors. Apples BC E-News is the Official Electronic Newsletter of the Apples BC Computer Society. In This Issue * Around Vancouver - The Abbotsford International Airshow * Photoshop Tips * The Imagination Works - Clip Art, Ya come a…

Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe for Windows and macOS. It was created in 1987 by Thomas and John Knoll. It is the most used tool for professional digital art, especially in raster graphics editing, and its name has become genericised as a verb although Adobe disapproves of s…

Connect is Miles Michelson's emailware take on the classic Connect Four board game for the Macintosh and Power Macintosh, distributed as a fat binary through Info-Mac. Version 1.1.5 polished a smooth, animated implementation that runs on any color depth and pits the player against a noticeably stronger computer opponen…

Someone asked me to upload the free translator for AFE that Microsoft produced. This translator will supposedly convert AppleWorks documents to MS Works docs. I don't know if it will handle the databse or spreadsheet portions or not. I have been informed that this particular translator will only handle documents of up …