classic Macintosh games?

[Soviet Conscript]

been building up my classic gameing computer collection lately and i came across the oppertunity to buy an old Macintosh SE. now in all my life my only experence with anything apple has been my apple IIgs which i aquired not to long ago for the wealth of classic apple II gameing but i really know next to nothing about the Macintosh line.

i kinda like the compactness of it but the B/W built in monitor is kinda well....b/w. i suppose it was done for cost saveings but its just wierd they were useing b/w monitors for these computers into the 90's even from what i've read.

so my question is are they any good mac games? exclusives?

[todesengel]

Deja-Vu and Shadow Gate are real good.

[tom]

Quarterstaff and other Infocom classics.
and Glider

[Jorpho]

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=72820
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=30737

[Clownzilla]

Glider is a Mac legend that I wish would be remade for Xbox Live.

[le geek]

The Fool's Errand, The Fool's Errand and The Fool's Errand.

[Bojay1997]

Glider is a Mac legend that I wish would be remade for Xbox Live.

The original programmer has released Glider Pro for free download on his website. There's even a version for OSX. http://homepage.mac.com/calhoun/Glider%20PRO.html

[Volcanon]

google macintosh garden for abandonware mac games.

Btw - don't bother with IIGs or Mac SEs. If you want a pre-OSX mac, get one of the early iMacs (Anything except the first revision), and stick OS 9.2.2 on it. You can run basically anything except the most ancient of games (like stuff made for System 1.0 or something).

Anyway:

1) Diamonds
2) Simcity, Simcity 2000, Simanything
3) Civilization I
4) Marathon, Marathon 2, Marathon Infinity (all available for free online now)

[ice1605]

Glider is an epic win game. I played Glider PRO all the time (still do, occasionally). It is too bad that the house editor was never ported to OS X...

[Kitsune Sniper]

Btw - don't bother with IIGs or Mac SEs. If you want a pre-OSX mac, get one of the early iMacs (Anything except the first revision), and stick OS 9.2.2 on it. You can run basically anything except the most ancient of games (like stuff made for System 1.0 or something).

Aren't iMacs prone to failure, though? And I think they aren't capable of reading old Mac-formatted floppies...

[Vectorman0]

Aren't iMacs prone to failure, though? And I think they aren't capable of reading old Mac-formatted floppies...

I've had good experience with iMacs, other than the very first iMac revision. They haven't been any less reliable than other computers on average.

[Kitsune Sniper]

I've had good experience with iMacs, other than the very first iMac revision. They haven't been any less reliable than other computers on average.

Well, I've only -heard- they weren't very reliable. Maybe all those reports were from the first models, like you say.

But I'm still not so sure about the floppies.

[cbroddy]

I had many great years playing Mac games in the 1980's. Here are some of the games I used to play often.

Dark castle
Beyond dark castle
Zork I
Where in the world is carmen sandiego?
Ground zero
Continuum
Lode Runner
Dungeons and Dragons
Transylvania
Airborne

[AB Positive]

Someone just bequeathed me a 1992 all-in-one mac running OS 7.2... so I guess I'll be checking the mac garden too now

One question though... where can one find a "CD Caddy"


(good thing it still has a floppy drive)

[Soviet Conscript]

Btw - don't bother with IIGs or Mac SEs. If you want a pre-OSX mac, get one of the early iMacs (Anything except the first revision), and stick OS 9.2.2 on it. You can run basically anything except the most ancient of games (like stuff made for System 1.0 or something).

kinda defeates the purpose for me. i'm the guy with 3 pcs one with xp, one dedicated and optimized for mid-late 90's windows and one for DOS

any OS reccommendations for a mac SE? i'm assumeing i need a os boot disk since on startup i just get a little floppy image with a question mark.

[Jorpho]

any OS reccommendations for a mac SE? i'm assumeing i need a os boot disk since on startup i just get a little floppy image with a question mark.

Heh. You're not thinking of running Linux, are you?

You might as well go with System 7.5.3, which you can download for free from Apple. Start with the System 7.5 Network Access boot floppy.

A few other games to consider:
System's Twilight
Captain Magneto
Little Pythagoras

[Soviet Conscript]

Heh. You're not thinking of running Linux, are you?

You might as well go with System 7.5.3, which you can download for free from Apple. Start with the System 7.5 Network Access boot floppy.

A few other games to consider:
System's Twilight
Captain Magneto
Little Pythagoras

i take it that its not so easy as i can use a 1.44mb pc floppy?

i missed all the floppy confusion growing up apperently 720, 800, dd 13...something, 1.44

i had an amiga 500 and a c64 as a kid and i knew nothing else. i didn't get a pc till 96 like 10 years later. hell i just assumed the 1.44 disks were the same the amiga used. i didn't even get into learning about the big evolution of the floppy till a few years ago when i started running into this stuff.

[Jorpho]

A Mac SE supports high-density disks, and there are no problems reading and writing high-density Macintosh-formatted floppies on a PC. (The problem is only with the double-density floppies.)

HFV Explorer should do the trick if you can't find anything else.

[chrisbid]

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[Diatribal Deity]

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