May 06, 2013 Vintage and obsolete products. Question: Q: How can I run classic Mac games on my Mac, I am running Mac OS X. I would like to run some of the old educational cds I have but none of them will work on my mac. I am running Mac OS X 10.6.8. I was wondering if anyone out there could post a step by step tutorial to getting old games to run. Sep 13, 2017 Kirk's love for Apple and Mac gaming lead him to Applelinks.com in 1997, where he would eventually become editor. He was then hired to become editor of AppleTell.com before it was bought out and shut down eight years later. During this time, he also contributed to GamerTell, Inside Mac Games, Mac Gamer’s Ledge, and Dealerscope. If you're planning on running the treasures of the past you'll find here on real old Macintosh hardware from the 90's, you sir/madame, deserve to win an Internet! For others, there's SheepShaver, a PowerPC emulator capable of running Mac OS 9.0.4 down to Mac OS 7.5.2 and there's Basilisk II, a 68k emulator, capable of running Mac OS (8.1 to 7.0).
Collection of Apple Macintosh shareware games, sourced from a large collection of (UK edition) Apple Mac magazine cover CDs, spanning mid-1990s through to early-2000s. Compiled, sorted and uploaded by vintageapplemac.com.
Each zip file contains alphabetically-sorted StuffIt archived files. The .zips were made in OSX El Capitan and the .sits were made in OS9.2.2 running natively on vintage Apple hardware using Stuffit 5.5. To preserve file integrity, once you have unzipped each main archive on your modern machine, do not unstuff the games in anything other than classic Mac OS. Listing for this archive: shareware_games_d: d-thing 1.0.sit D.S.R. v2.5.sit D3D Download Demo.sit DAK!.sit Daleks ET 2.0.sit Daleks ET 2.0.sit.sit Daleks ET.sit Darby & Pete.sit Dark Corona 1.0.1.sit Dark Corona PEGASUS 1.0.5.sit Dark Corona PEGASUS Insta….sit Dark Corona.sit Dark folder.sit.sit Dark Forces FAQ.sit Dark Forces.sit Dark Rose Special 2.0.sit Dark Vengeance Demo 1.2.sit Dark Vengeance Demo.sit Dark Vengeance NetPack 1.sit DarkRage Public Beta.sit Darkwood 1.2.sit Darkwood 2.0.sit Dart Board ƒ.sit Dart Board.sit Darts 1.0.sit darts 201.sit DARTS.sit Das Blinken Lights.sit David's Backgammon .sea.sit David's BackGammon 2.2.1.sit David's BackGammon 2.91.sit David's BackGammon 3.7.4.sit David's BackGammon Demo.sit David's Backgammon.sit David's Hell.sit Dawn of Aces 1.3 Demo.sit DayOne.sit DeadEnd 1.1.2.cpt.sit Deadlock Demo .sit Death Blade ƒ.sit Death Blade.sit Death From Above 1.4.sit Death from Above Screensh….sit Deathground Demo ƒ.sit Deathground Demo.sit Deco 1.0.2.sit Deco 1.0.sit Deco ƒ.sit Deco.sit decryptov3.0 Folder.sit Deep Sea.sit Deer Avenger 2 Demo.sit Deer Avenger Demo.sit Default Folder 3.0.6.sit Delirium 1.1.sit Delirium 1.2.sit Delirium 1.2.sit.sit Delirium.sit Delirium1.2.cpt.sit Deluxe Klondike.sit Demon 1.0b1.sit Demon Warrior.sit Depacker.sit Desert Trek 1.02.sit Desk Drop 1.0.sit Desk Fighter -TURBO- 1.4.sit Desk Fighter 1.1.sit.sit Desk Invaders II.sit Desk Invaders.sit DeskBots 1.5.sit Desktop Cigarette 1.0 beta.sit Desktop Cigarette ƒ.sit Desktop Poker.sit DesktopValet3.0.1.sit Despair.sit despair16.sit Destroy Installer.sit Destroy the Necronomicon ….sit Destruction!.sit Devil in a Blue Dress 1.5.sit Devil's Cubes 1.0.1.sit DevilDarts 1.0.sit DevilDarts 2.0 Fat.sit DevilDarts.sit DGamm371.sea.sit Diablo II Cheater 1.0.sit Diablo Spawn.sit Diaggle 1.2a.sit Diaggle.sit Diagonal 22.sit Diagonal-22.sit Diagonal-22.sit.sit Diamonds 1.6.sit Diaper Dash v 1.2.sit Dicer 1.2.sit Dicer 1.3.3.sit Differences Game™.sit Digital Messiah v.2.0 ƒ.sit Digital Messiah.sit Digital Vendetta patch 1.0.sit Digital Vendetta.sit Digital Wipeout 1.1.sit Digital Wipeout 2.0.sit Digital Wipeout.sit DigVen folder.sit DigVen.sit Diku Ticker.sit Dinkum.sit DinoDefenderInstaller.sit Dirt Bike 2.1.sit Dirt Bike 3.0.sit Dirt Bike 3.1.sit Dirt Bike 3D 1.6.sea.sit Dirt Bike 3D 1.6.sit Dirt Bike 3D.sea.sit Dirt Bike 3D.sit Dirt Bike 4.3.sit Dirt Bike.sit Dirty Dozen 1.0.sit Dirty Dozen.cpt.sit DiskCatalogMaker 2.3.5.sit Disklosure 1.3.2.sit Distant Suns 5.0 Demo.sit DM Ambient Sound Installer.sit DM Fixer.sit DM Updater -> v.2.0.1.sit DocJet 1.1.0.sit DogfightCityDemoInstaller.sit DogRaces.sit Dolch Sight Words.sit Dole15.sit Dollshouse.cpt.sit Domain 1.0.sit Dome Wars 1.0.3.sit Dome Wars 1.0.5.sit Dome Wars 1.0.sit Dome Wars 1.0.sit.sit Dome Wars 1.2.sit Dome Wars.sit DomeWars 1.0.5.sit Domino v1.4a.sit Dominoes 1.0.sit Dominoes 1.1.sit Dominoes 1.2.sit Domitrix 1.2 Shareware.sit Doom extras.sit DOOM I (shareware edition….sit Doom II WADs.sit DOOMenstein.sit Dope Wars ƒ.sit Dope Wars.sit DOPE-110.sit Dos4Mac ƒ.sit Dos4Mac.sit Dots.sit Double (FAT) .sit Double.sit Down&Out PPC.sit DoZ.sit Dr. Jäkel 0.9.4.sit Dr. Jäkel 0.9.5 ƒ.sit Dr. Jäkel 0.9.5.sit Dr. Macinto 2.5.sit Dr. Max.sit Dr.Macinto 2.8.cpt.sit Dr.Macinto.sit Dracula's Castle 2.3.sit Drag'n Back 3.3.4.sit Dragon 1.03.sit.sit Dragon Cavern 2.0.sit Dragon Cavern Lite.sit Dragon Clash 1.0.sit Dragon Grabber 1.1.sit DragonClash 1.0.sit DragonMaze 1.1.sit DragonMaze 1.1.sit.sit DragonMaze 2.2™ Demo.sit DragonMaze.sit DragThing 2.9.sit Dream 1.7.1 PPC patch.sit Dream Wars! 1.0.sit Dream Wars! Installer.sit Dream Weaver ƒ.sit Dream Weaver.sit Dream3D.sit DreamLight® Verttice™ 2.0.sit DrMax10.sit.sit Droids 1.0 ƒ.sit Droids 1.0.sit Droids 1.1 ƒ.sit Droids 1.1.sit Droids 1.2.sit Droids 1.3.sit Droids.sit Drol.sit Dropper.sit Drop•FlattenMooV.sit DSATFighter05b5.sit Duck Quest 1.3.sit Ducky folder.sit Ducky.sit DukeEdit.sit Dumbot 0.4.sit Dust.sit DX Ball Shareware.sit Dynamic VideoPoker 3.6.1.sit DZoneDecDanInstaller.sit DZonePredInstaller.sit DZoneRagRavInstaller.sit
If you're new to the Macintosh, or even if you've had one for a while, you may be interested in putting the work aside from time to time and playing games on your lovely machine. Macs may not have the same number of games as Windows PCs, but there are still plenty of places to get them if you know where to look. Here are some of my favorites. What are yours?
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Valve's Steam service has been available for the Mac for a while now, and offers a pretty rich combination of indie and commercial titles for the Mac. They have their own Mac OS X section, which makes it very easy for Mac gamers to find what they're looking for.
What's more, Valve puts Mac gamers on a pretty even playing field with their Windows counterparts when it comes to sales and promotions — so you can usually get the same remarkable discounts. This weekend, for example, they're doing a free play weekend for the popular FPS Borderlands 2, with a 50 percent discount available as well.
Mac App Store
I've already said my piece about what I perceive to be the problems with the Mac App Store. But those issues notwithstanding, Apple deserves credit for bringing forth a robust marketplace for Mac app developers. What's more, Mac App Store is baked right in to OS X and uses Apple ID credentials, which means that it instantly has a potential user base of almost half a billion accounts, many more than the total number of Macs in use today.
The Mac App Store features indie and commercial titles alike, and also keeps lists of top paid and top free games, so there's something to appeal to gamers regardless of the budget. You can usually find the latest hot releases for Mac offered here, but sometimes it's a good idea to compare to Steam to see if you're getting the best deal.
MacGameStore
Even before the Mac App Store launched, MacGameStore came on the scene to provide Mac gamers with the latest downloads. In fact, they've been serving up games to Mac customers since 2005.
You can buy games directly from the web site, though there's a handy app that you can use if you prefer. MacGameStore regularly runs specials and deals, and if demos are available you can find links to them there too.
GameAgent.com
GameAgent.com started out as Mac game publisher Aspyr's way of reaching out to its own customers, but since then it's grown into an active Mac gaming service that offers downloads not just of Aspyr games but of other company's products too. They sport deals, favorites and games under $10, to make it easy to find something you might like.
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If you set up an account with GameAgent, you can also use their Mac Match service to find out what games are supported on your system, taking the guesswork out of system requirements. https://renewdrive.weebly.com/fleetwood-mac-future-games-studio.html. You can also create a wish list, get access to special deals and more.
Feral Interactive
Mac game publisher Feral Interactive is a perennial darling of the Mac App Store, but you can usually find their games through other Mac game services too. If you'd prefer to go direct to the source, Feral is happy to take your money — they run their own Mac game download service, which is exclusive to their games. https://renewdrive.weebly.com/classic-game-emulator-mac.html.
Feral follows the 'traditional' model of Mac game publishing — they license top rated games from PC and console game publishers, then produce and publish Mac versions. So if you want the new Tomb Raider game, for example, or XCOM: Enemy Within, you know where to look.
GameTree Mac
TransGaming is a company that mostly stays behind the scenes — they're content to convert games to the Mac using their Cider technology (which has its distant origins in the open-source WINE project) and let the publishers themselves to the heavy lifting. But they also operate their own game sales service, called GameTree Mac.
GameTree Mac has the usual Mac-compatible products from other commercial and indie game publishers, but they also sport the titles that TransGaming has worked on, which often can't be found through other services. So there are some exclusives there that might peak your interest.
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GOG.com — what was once branded as 'Good Old Games' — specializes in selling 'vintage' computer software. They do have some more recent releases like Torchlight, for example, but much of their specialty has to do with resurrecting games from the DOS and early Windows era, recycled to run on modern hardware.
They're much better about supporting the Mac than they used to be, and you can usually find games for $6 — $10 without too much of a problem. Just be advised that GOG.com games are typically running inside some emulation layer or shell in order to operate and haven't been updated, so you're getting the real look and feel of vintage games, with their unusual control schemes and blocky graphics to boot.
GamersGate
GamersGate is another online service where you can download Mac and PC games alike. The service is clientless, just like most of the other services we've talked about, but one cool thing about GamersGate is that they have 'gamified' the experience of using their service with a rewards system.
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The more active you are on their boards — posting reviews, ratings, solving problems for other gamers, and more — the more 'Blue Coins' you'll earn, which will get you discount on future orders. You'll also gain experience points, which will entitle you to special discounts on games.
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More and more Mac game publishers are hopping on board with support for the platform for their own download services. Electronic Arts' Origin, for example, is where you'd go to download SimCity and connect to other players. Want to buy popular Blizzard games like World of Warcraft or Diablo III? Off to Battle.net with you, then.
So look around — Mac games are a lot more available than you might think. And have fun gaming!
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