Maclotto 11 Demo

MacLotto 1.1 Demo is John Spicer's lottery number-generation utility, archived to Info-Mac under game/ despite being closer to a database tool than a game. The author is candid in the upload: "MacLotto is a (surprise!) number generation program which supports multiple lotteries." The demo is the limited evaluation build of a $15 US shareware release.

What it does

Spicer's feature list from the BinHex header: support for 56 lotteries with more on the way; importing of past winning number sets, either singly or from a text file; lottery wheels accepting up to 3 required numbers in each set; saving generated lists to disk; and printing lists directly. The pitch is that lottery players using systems and wheels need a tool for the bookkeeping, not the betting.

Catalogue note

Like Lingotto and other lottery-system builders that landed in info-mac/game/, MacLotto isn't a game in any conventional sense - there is no opponent, no scoring, no playfield. The categorisation reflects Info-Mac's broad reading of "game" as anything related to gambling or numbers, not a design choice by the author.

Distribution and registration

Demo distributed as maclotto-11-demo.hqx; the full program was "$15US, direct or from Albert's Ambry," the latter being the well-known 1990s Mac shareware reseller at alberts.com. Author John Spicer's contact details on the upload: home phone (302) 730-8836, work (302) 678-8100x114, with a project page at www.ezol.com/~spicerj/dragon.html.

Provenance

Author description and feature list from the BinHex header in maclotto-11-demo.hqx are the only canonical sources. Macintosh Garden has no entry under games/maclotto or apps/maclotto; no MobyGames record exists. No screenshots are available without a MG mirror.