Macintosh Recreation

See also: Macintosh Humor, Macintosh: The Final Frontier: Star Trek items for the Mac, and Totware: Games for youngsters

I am going to try an organization based upon the existing Mac Games newsgroups. Feedback appreciated, though sorry if I do not have time to respond personally.

Classic Mac Games

Action

comp.sys.mac.games.action

Newsgroup for discussion of Macintosh action games

Poing!

Ambrosia Software

(Makers of Maelstrom, Chiral, Apeiron, and Swoop)

First-person Shoot-'em-ups

• The Marathon Page, the Marathon Spoiler Guide, and the Physics Model Editor
• MacDoom
• Dark Forces for Mac and the general Dark Forces page
• Wolfenstein 3D

Bolo Home Page and Guides

A tank game in which you play over the network against human opponents

Dark Castle, one of the all-time classics! (Now in color...)

A Dark Castle Demo is available. There is also a Darak Castle FAQ

Adventure

comp.sys.mac.games.adventure

Newsgroup for discussion of Macintosh adventure games

Ultima III

A new Macintosh port of the original

Scarab of Ra

Card Games

Solitaire Till Dawn

Offers twenty-six varieties of solitaire!

Eric's Ultimate Solitaire

Flight Simulators for Macintosh

comp.sys.mac.games.flight-sim

Newsgroup for discussion of Macintosh flight simulators

There are many fine pages on Macintosh flight simulators, so I shall just cover the highlights here, and direct you to them for more information.

• A10-Attack! from Parsoft
  • A10-Attack! FAQ and primer

• F/A-18 Hornet from Graphic Simulations Corporation
• AirWarrior
• For further information:
  • Scott Cherkofsky's flight sim page
  • Tom Morrison's flight sim page

Kittyhawk Software

"The Greatest Paper Airplanes" shareware program; provides a brief bibliography too

Strategy Games

comp.sys.mac.games.strategic

Newsgroup for discussion of Macintosh strategy games

TacOps

A modern land-based warfare tactical simulator, with opportunities to play against the computer or another human (via net, modem, or mail). Extremely educational; written by a retired USMC Major.

Spaceward Ho!

Strategic Conquest

Harpoon from Three-Sixty

Well, Harpoon offers lots of promise, especially the new Harpoon II, however Three-Sixty

• "Myst" web page and a hints page.

• SimCity Manual (by Maxis) and SimCity 2000 FAQ

• Rebel Assault (PC LucasArts Games page, but contains hints and cheats lists).

• Interactive Fiction archive

• RoboWar

• SimTower

• Pac-Man

• NetFest (for those in Alberta)

Frequently Asked Questions

• comp.sys.mac.games FAQ (HTML; current)
• A10-Attack! FAQ (HTML; current)
• F/A-18 Hornet FAQ
• Marathon FAQ
• Ambrosia Software FAQs
  • Apeiron FAQ (html; current)
  • Chiral FAQ (html; current)
  • Maelstrom FAQ (html; current)
  • Swoop FAQ (html; current)

• Bolo FAQ (HTML; current)
• Blobbo FAQ (HTML; current)
• Hellcats Over the Pacific FAQ (HTML; current: 2.4)
• Civilization FAQ (U.S. mirror) (HTML; current)
• SimCity 2000 FAQ (HTML; current)
• Spaceward Ho! FAQ (HTML; current)
• Darak Castle FAQ
• Pathways Into Darkness FAQ (2/2/94)
• Realmz FAQ
• 7th Guest FAQ (text)
• CoreWar FAQ
• Adventure Authoring Systems FAQ
• See Macintosh Recreation for walkthroughs.

Walkthroughs (Solutions)

• "Beyond Zork" (HTML)

• "Myst" (HTML)

• Realmz Bywater tips

• "Lemmings II: The Tribes" (HTML)

• "Journeyman Project" (text)

• "Labyrinth of Time" (text)

• "Prince of Persia 2" (text)

• Alone In the Dark

• Flashback (text)

• Ultima III walkthrough (HTML)

Miscellaneous

comp.sys.mac.games.misc

Newsgroup for discussion of Macintosh game topics that do not fit elsewhere

Resources for playing head-to-head via modem (usually over the Internet)

• AppleTalk over Internet FAQ
• Outland Home Page
• Sim-Net

Info-Mac/Game courtesy of the HyperArchive

Don't forget to check out the Commercial area for demos and patches

Other Web Sites

Mac Game Resources on the Internet

Part of Christina Schulman's comp.sys.mac.games FAQ (the definitive resource)

The Entertaining Macintosh: E.M. at U.K. Home or E.M. at U.S. mirror

A most impressive collection!

Timo Eloranta's Mac Games page (Finland)

Macintosh Entertainment Software (Australia)

Cult of Macintosh games page

GamesDomain: GD at U.K. Home or GD at U.S. mirror

An attempt to provide references to all gaming material on the web, though unfortunately a thankless task which shows in the lack of depth.

Newsgroups

• comp.sys.mac.games.announce

• comp.sys.mac.games.action
  • alt.games.marathon

• comp.sys.mac.games.adventure

• comp.sys.mac.games.flight-sim

• comp.sys.mac.games.strategic

• comp.sys.mac.games.misc

• comp.sys.mac.games.marketplace

• rec.games.bolo

• comp.sys.mac.programmer.games

Vendors

• Delta Tao

• LucasArts

• Semicolon Software

January 1, 1996 - Robert Lentz (ralentz@ralentz.com)