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…

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)

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…

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 …

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)

Publisher: MetrowerksOS X era fullMacintosh Tools CD for Metrowerks CodeWarrior 8 Pro.Other versions on this site: CodeWarrior 6 Lite

Publisher: AppleOS 9 finaliTunes is Apple's popular software for mp3 playback, listening to internet radio stations etc. Not much use with emulators, but if you've got old Macs this software is invaluable and increasingly hard to find.Other versions on this site: iTunes 1.1.2

Publisher: Appleoriginal iTunesiTunes for Mac OS X / macOS. Originally released in 2001 (in conjunction with the first iPod that same year), iTunes is descended from the music player SoundJam MP from Casady & Greene, which Apple acquired in 2000.Other versions on this site: iTunes 2.0.4

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…