Retro Mac Gamers

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Comment by David Alstott on August 6, 2009 at 11:54am

1993 Valkyrie Helicopter Sim.

http://retromaccast.ning.com/photo/albums/valkyriecobra-1

Valkyrie by Don Hill was initially introduced on floppy disk in 1993. In 1997 it was renamed Cobra Strike and was produced on a CD. The simple controls allowed one to play skillfully within a few minutes.

Comment by David Alstott on August 5, 2009 at 8:37am

I just posted some scans and pix of Pathways Into Darkness the 1993 Bungie game which has to be the first native FPS for the Macintosh.

http://retromaccast.ning.com/photo/albums/pathways-into-darkness

Sometimes you need several pieces of older Mac hardware to get from here to there which at times seems impossible.

I made the screen shots on a Powerbook 540c where the game is played, and then transfered them to a floppy disk. Then I copied the floppy to a PCMCIA card by using a Powerbook 3400. I thought I would need to use my Pismo to get the copy from the PCMCIA card to a USB thumb drive. Fortunately I remembered I had a PC card reader which took the shots directly into the MacBook Pro for editing and posting here.

Comment by Nick Hoover on March 1, 2009 at 9:23pm

Thanks y'all...

Comment by John on March 1, 2009 at 9:22pm

Here is a site I found http://www.hot.ee/macgames/

Comment by Lars (WhyOSX) on March 1, 2009 at 7:14pm

'Wolfenstein' was published on semi-commercial CDs with the German issues of 'MacUp' and 'MacWorld' in early 1994. They must have been in the American magazines a little bit earlier.

Comment by Lars (WhyOSX) on March 1, 2009 at 7:09pm

A while ago some other members began to dig in their memories for older games, you can find this here:
http://retromaccast.ning.com/profiles/blogs/despite-my-better-judgement

Comment by Nick Pericles on March 1, 2009 at 6:51pm

Bolo http://www.lgm.com/bolo/

Under the games section of http://www.jagshouse.com/classicsoftware.html

Ambrosia also has lots of good games and demos http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/old/

Escape Velocity FTW

Comment by Nick Hoover on March 1, 2009 at 6:16pm

anyone know where to buy or download some of the PowerPC or 68000 a vintage game like Wolfenstein 3D?

Comment by Nick Pericles on January 24, 2009 at 9:52am

I believe that first game you described is bolo and there is a port for osx, xbolo and it is still awsome

Comment by Alex Spangler on January 15, 2009 at 3:31pm

I used to play the game where you adjust the cannons power and angle. And sum city. And the brick game. And on my performa I have power pete