Filed under: Gaming, Software, Cult of Mac
A treasure trove of classic Mac games
This weekend I was reading Mr. Barrett's site (a Mac tech who has helped me out of more than a couple of jams) when I saw his link to this fantastic collection of classic Mac games. I wasted a good deal of the early 1990's playing SimCity, The Fool's Errand and of course, Maelstrom. This was back when System 7.6 was all the rage and everyone was in awe of the one SE/30 we had at work.So, go and dust off that 4400 you have in the basement (or pick up an emulator, as Mr. Barrett suggests) and have some old school fun.
[Via Mr. Barrett]
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_victor said 12:31PM on 6-20-2005
For you really retro gamers, don't forget the Asimov ftp archives of old Apple ][ stuff...
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Chris K said 2:22PM on 6-20-2005
Even my old LCII was dated around System 7.6. An SE/30 would be laughable!
That said, Armor Alley over LocalTalk was awesome. I wish there were a similar game available today.
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Callum said 3:27PM on 6-20-2005
Hey that's great. Anyone run the game Jeopardy? Like that crazy US TV Show... we got our first Mac 2nd User from my mother's best friend - she worked in an International School and it came loaded with all kinds of Americana which jaded my 10 year old mind. I remeber sitting in the back room in one of my childhood houses playing Jeopardy late (9ish) into the night. If someone could send me over an emulated version - I'd probably cry.
Thats where it all started. Anyway - today I'm trying to answer a question to justify throwing out my PC, and to help a few friends make the switch. Why can't I run PC Games on a mac? If they were recompiled (oh, I hear your programming laughter) why don't developers make games for macs - just money and markets - or is it that crazy world of 'architecture'. Because Macs are going intel - will it be easier to 'port' games to OS X?
I'm trying to install Linux - to run Dembian and hopefuly Counter-Strike on X - anyone know if this is possible. I'm really stuck, but c'mon whats a hobby without pain... and Open Firmware! Link.
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Andrew Kaufmann said 3:28PM on 6-20-2005
Oh, man... I can just see my productivity level dropping... I'm a sucker for old games. Just what I need, MORE distractions from the important task of wasting time in a more productive way, like commenting on TUAW posts...
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Mark Sumner said 3:54PM on 6-20-2005
Hey, I was pleasantly surprised to see my old "Wizard's Fire" game on the list. I wrote the thing as a learning exercise back in the days of the 128K Mac to get familiar with Quickdraw and how to handle some graphics problems using only integer math. We were writing a Logo program for kids, and the same line drawing routines that dropped the "fire" in this game went into the turtle's line drawings.
There was a day when it was the most downloaded Mac program -- of course that was also the day when downloading meant CompuServer, GEnie, or your friendly neighborhood bulletin board.
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Ricky said 9:28PM on 6-28-2005
The site is down now... what a shame.
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