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Mac Game Resources on the Internet

Compiled by Christina Schulman, [email protected]
Last update: 23 Mar 1996

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This guide is intended as a quick reference to the various
game-specific FAQs, homepages, and other useful Macintosh game
resources on the net. It is an appendix to the comp.sys.mac.games FAQ,
the Frequently Asked Questions list for the comp.sys.mac.games
hierarchy on Usenet. The subgroups of comp.sys.mac.games are:

comp.sys.mac.games.announce Announcements for Mac gamers. (Moderated)
comp.sys.mac.games.action Action games for the Macintosh.
comp.sys.mac.games.adventure Adventure games for the Macintosh.
comp.sys.mac.games.marketplace Macintosh games for sale and trade.
comp.sys.mac.games.misc Macintosh games not covered in other groups.
comp.sys.mac.games.flight-sim Flight simulator gameplay on the Mac.
comp.sys.mac.games.strategic Strategy/planning games on the Macintosh.

Please read the comp.sys.mac.games FAQ before posting to these groups.
FTP it from
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/macintosh/games-faq or
send mail to [email protected] with the line "send
usenet/news.answers/macintosh/games-faq" in the body of the message.

There is an HTML version of this Resource Guide at
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/csmg-faq/resource-guide.html. A plaintext
version can be FTP'd from
ftp://ftp.ambrosiasw.com/pub/csmg-faq/resource-guide.txt. There is a
list of recent additions to this page at
http://www.pitt.edu/~schulman/whatsnewmg.html. The contents of this
page are copyright 1996 by Christina Schulman.

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There are FAQs for many of the more popular Macintosh games. Try
looking in the info or games directories at the major ftp sites.
Another good place to look if you have WWW access is Dave Stanworth's
Games Domain, at http://www.gamesdomain.co.uk. There is now an
American mirror of the Games Domain at http://www.gamesdomain.com.

Here is a partial list of Macintosh game resources on the net. I'm not
responsible for any inaccuracies, omissions, or outright lies on this
list, but please email any additions or corrections to me at
[email protected].

A-10 Attack! FAQ:
Petteri Sulonen's A-10 Attack! FAQ and Primer are at
http://www.seittipaja.fi/Web_Sivut/A10FAQ/A10FAQPage.html.

A-Train:
Maxis's official A-Train page is at
http://www.maxis.com/products/a_train/index.html.

Action Games:
Dave Coufal's Mac 3D First Person Games Home Page is at
http://methane.mit.edu:8001/user/coufal/mac3d.html.

Activision:
Activision's homepage at http://www.activision.com has
information about Return to Zork and the Infocom classic text
adventures.

Advanced Gravis:
Advanced Gravis Corporation, which makes the Mousestick, Gravis
Gamepad, and other joysticks and Mac peripherals, has a
homepage at http://www.gravis.com.

Air Warrior:
John "Wolfman" Wolf maintains a page dedicated to Air Warrior
on the Mac at http://www.cris.com/~Jrwolf/aw313.shtml. For
general Air Warrior information and a FAQ, try Rocketman's Air
Warrior Page at http://ddi.digital.net/~rocket/. There is an
Air Warrior newsgroup, alt.games.air-warrior.

Ambrosia:
The official Ambrosia homepage is at http://www.ambrosiasw.com.
It contains information about Ambrosia products such as
Maelstrom, Apeiron, Chiral, and Swoop.

Angband:
Jason Holtzapple's Angband FAQ is available at
http://www.paranoia.com/~jth/angfaq1.txt. There is also a
Usenet newsgroup, rec.games.roguelike.angband.

Apeiron:
The official Apeiron FAQ is available by ftp from
ftp://ftp.AmbrosiaSW.com/pub/FAQs/Apeiron_FAQ.hqx and on the
web at
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/Ambrosia_FAQs/Ambrosia_FAQs.html.

Appletalk Games Over the Internet:
Tom Morrison's FAQ on this subject is at
http://www.xmission.com/~morrison/AoI/home.html. See also the
Internet Modem Players Listing.

Arcade Games:
John Komp maintains a list of Mac versions of various 80's
arcade games. Email him at [email protected] with the
subject "Mac Arcade List Please" or go to it on the WWW at
http://www.tikkabik.com/mac_arcade.html.

Atomic Games:
The Atomic Games homepage, with information about Atomic
products such as Operation Crusader, is at http://atomic.com/.

Blizzard:
Blizzard Entertainment, the maker of Warcraft: Orcs and Humans,
has a homepage at http://www.blizzard.com.

Blobbo FAQ:
The Blobbo FAQ is available on the WWW at
http://www.skypoint.com/members/gandreas/BlobboFAQ.html or by
ftp from ftp://www.gamesdomain.co.uk.uk/pub/faqs/blobbo.faq.

Bolo FAQ:
The Bolo FAQ is at
ftp://noproblem.uchicago.edu/pub/Bolo/!FAQ.txt and in HTML
form at http://prog.vub.ac.be:8080/~gpappas/Bolo/faq.html.
There is an entire Big 7 newsgroup devoted to Bolo:
rec.games.bolo.

Buried in Time:
There is a Buried in Time page with FAQ, walkthrough, and
screenshots, at
http://www.macsonic.com/users/macsonic/bit.html.

Burn:Cycle:
The Burn:Cycle homepage is at http://www.burncycle.com/.

Card games:
Jouni Miettunen maintains a comprehensive list of Macintosh
card games at http://www.webwaves.com/games/card/mac/.

Casady & Greene:
The Casady & Greene homepage is at http://www.casadyg.com/. It
contains information and demos for C&G games such as Glider
Pro, Zone Warrior, and AmoebArena.

CH Products:
CH Products, which makes the Flightstick Pro and other
joysticks, has a homepage at http://www.chproducts.com.

Children's Shareware:
An excellent web page devoted to shareware games for children
is Tigger's Children's Shareware Page at
http://remarque.berkeley.edu/~tigger/sw-kids.html, which
groups games by the age they're intended for, briefly describes
each one, and provides links to download the games from
multiple archives. It also has a page for children's shareware
that will run on black and white Macs at
http://remarque.berkeley.edu/~tigger/mac/oldmac.html.

Chiral:
The official Chiral FAQ is available for ftp from
ftp://ftp.AmbrosiaSW.com/pub/FAQs/Chiral_FAQ.hqx and on the
web at
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/Ambrosia_FAQs/Ambrosia_FAQs.html.

Civilization:
For the Civilization FAQ, send email to [email protected] with
the subject "Civ FAQ please", ftp it from
ftp://www.gamesdomain.co.uk/pub/faqs/civilization.faq, or go
to http://www.gamesdomain.co.uk/civfaq1.html on WWW.

Mark Lilback's Civilization Page at
http://www.lilback.com/civilization/ includes a mirror of the
Civ FAQ and a page devoted to Civ on the Macintosh at
http://www.lilback.com/civilization/mp/macciv.html. This Mac
Civ page includes game hacks and a patch that allows Civ to run
without crashing on PCI Macs.

Confederate Grey:
Confederate Grey, a Civil War game very similar to the old Mac
version of Risk, can be downloaded from
http://www.moneytracker.com/cg.

Daedalus Encounter:
The official Daedalus Encounter homepage is at
http://www.mechadeus.com/daedalus/daedalus.htm.

Dark Castle:
Dark Castle was originally a Very Cool black and white game by
Silicon Beach for the Mac 512k. It is now available PPC native
and in color from Delta Tao; there are screenshots, a FAQ, and
a downloadable demo on their Dark Castle '95 page at
http://www.outland.com/deltatao/darkcastle.html.

Dark Forces:
Brad Oliver's Dark Forces for the Macintosh page at
http://www.primenet.com/~bradman/darkforces.html includes a
Mac level editor and a patch to allow the game to run without
the CD-ROM, as well as a slew of custom levels. The Dark Forces
homepage at http://deepthought.armory.com/~tdalton/DarkForces/
and Dark Forces FAQ at
http://gpu.srv.ualberta.ca/~kloepelm/df.html were developed
for the PC version, but much of the information is useful for
the Mac version too. There is a Dark Forces newsgroup,
alt.games.dark-forces.

Deadly Games:
Deadly Games, makers of WWII strategic games such as Battle of
Britain and U-Boat, have a homepage at
http://www.deadlygames.com.

Delta Tao:
The Delta Tao homepage is at http://www.outland.com/deltatao/.
It contains information about Delta Tao products such as
Spaceward Ho!, Strategic Conquest, and the new Dark Castle.

Discis:
The Discis web site at http://www.goodmedia.com/discis includes
demos and hint guides for Jewels of the Oracle and Karma: Curse
of the 12 Caves.

Discworld FAQ:
The Discworld Games Page at
http://lspace.cp.tn.tudelft.nl/games/discworld/page.htm
includes screenshots, FAQ, and walkthrough. The Discworld FAQ
was written for the PC version, but most of the gameplay hints
are useful for the Mac version too. It's also available by ftp
from ftp://www.gamesdomain.co.uk/pub/faqs/discworld.faq.

Domark homepage:
The Domark homepage is at http://www.domark.com/domark/. It
contains information about Domark products such as Out of the
Sun and Flying Nightmares.

Dongleware:
The Dongleware homepage at http://www.dongleware.de has
information about, and downloadable demos for, the various
incarnations of the excellent puzzle game Oxyd and the CD-ROM
game Bolo (not to be confused with the popular tank game).

DOOM E-zines:
The MacDoom Review, an independent e-zine in DocMaker format
that is devoted to news, reviews, and issues related to
MacDoom, is available on the WWW at
http://www.voicenet.com/~reeltime/mdr.html.

DOOM FAQ:
The rec.games.computer.doom.* FAQ is available at
ftp://ftp.mantis.co.uk/pub/doom/periodic/RGCD_FAQ. Several
other DOOM FAQs are available at
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/games/doom/ and are
listed on the WWW at
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/games/doom/
top.html.

DoomGate:
DoomGate, the entry point to the network of DOOM-related sites
around the planet, is at http://doomgate.cs.buffalo.edu/. I
don't have the space or time to list the other
(non-Mac-specific) DoomWeb pages here, but for sheer coolness
I'll also list http://www.mantis.co.uk/doom/3ddoom.html, which
shows 2 cross-eyed stereographic scenes from DOOM.

Dungeon Master II:
The Dungeon Master II page at
http://www.pacinfo.com/~rtaylor/dm2.html includes complete
indexes of available characters, equipment, and spells.

Electronic Arts:
The EA homepage is at http://www.ea.com/. But they've pretty
much abandoned the Mac, so why bother?

Exile:
Spiderweb Software's official homepage for Exile: Escape From
the Pit and Exile II: Crystal Souls at
http://members.aol.com/SpidWeb/root_page.html has FAQs,
screenshots, and downloadable copies of both games.

Jim Foley's excellent Exile pages at
http://www.engr.wisc.edu/~foley/exile/exile.html includes an
online manual for the game and Mark Bradburn's Exile Spoiler
Pages.

Rob Lewandowski's Exile pages at
http://www.servtech.com/public/heathera/exile.html has a
detailed item catalogue and a tourbook for the various
locations in Exile.

F/A-18 Hornet:
Graphic Simulations Corporation's official Hornet homepage is
at http://www.computek.net/graphsim/hornet2.0.html.

Tim van der Leeuw's Unofficial Hornet Page is at
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~tnleeuw/hornet/hornet.html.

The Hornet FAQ is on the web at
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~tnleeuw/hornet/hornet.html, and it can be
ftp'd from ftp://chemotaxis.biology.utah.edu/Public/ or
ftp://williams.edu/pub/Hornet.Archive/.

The Hornet Tactical Briefing Page at
http://www.wupper.de/sites/abalkin/F18/hornet.html lets you
share your replays with other net pilots.

Factory:
The Factory Page at http://agora.rdrop.com/~pcal/factory/
includes the downloadable game, a new scenario, and
screenshots.

Flashback:
The Flashback Walkthrough Page at
http://www.veldt.com/~jgor/flashback/ is organized by level.
The game's publisher, MacPlay, has a downloadable demo at
http://www.macplay.com/website/demos/demos2.html.

Flight Simulators:
Tom Morrison's Mac Flight Simulator Page, with the world's
loudest yellow background, is at
http://www.xmission.com/~morrison/MFS/index.html. Wear
sunglasses.

Scott Cherkofsky's Macintosh Flight Simulator Page at
http://www.shirenet.com/~crusader/html/Flight_Simulators.html
is a good clearinghouse for Mac flight sim URL's and
information, including a discussion of the Thrustmaster and
other joysticks.

FloorTiles:
A downloadable copy and information about FloorTiles are
available at Karl Bunker's web page at
http://users.aol.com/karlbunker/.

Glider Pro:
The official Glider Pro page at
http://www.casadyg.com/gliderp.html includes the latest
updater and a fistful of downloadable houses. There is also an
unofficial Glider Pro page at
http://falcon.cc.ukans.edu/~cubsfan/glider/glider.html.

Graphic Simulations Corporation:
Graphic Simulations Corporation, makers of FA-18 Hornet, have a
homepage at http://www.computek.net/graphsim/.

GT Interactive:
GT Interactive, which publishes Doom II for the Mac, has a
homepage at http://www.gtinteractive.com.

Indiana Jones:
For hints and walkthrus for LucasArts' Indiana Jones games (and
everything else you ever wanted to know about Indy), go to
http://www.softaid.net/msjohnso/game.html.

Infocom games:
The Infocom page at http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~pete/Infocom/

has detailed information on each of the late great company's games,
including walkthrus, bug reports, and packaging details (now that's
thorough). My personal favorite: The Lurking Horror! The Lost
Treasures of Infocom are now available on 2 CDs from Activision.

Interactive Fiction:
For information about Infocom games, the Scott Adams adventures, or
just about any other sort of text adventure, check out the Interactive
Fiction archive at ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/. Also check out the
Interactive Fiction Page at
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/wsr/Web/IF/homepage.html.
The Usenet newsgroups rec.arts.int-fiction and rec.games.int-fiction
are devoted to the creation and solving of text adventures.

Internet Modem Players Listing:
This list at http://www.xmission.com/~morrison/IMPL/home.html can put
you in touch with others who want to play networked computer games,
both via modem (sorted by area code) and IPRemote. For an explanation
of IPRemote, see Tom Morrison's FAQ on playing Appletalk Games Over
the Internet.

Jewels of the Oracle:
The official homepage at
http://www1.goodmedia.com/discis/jotohome.html includes a demo, a
hierarchical hint guide, and an interview with the creator.

Kernel Productions:
Kernel Productions, which makes the Choicestick joystick adapter, has
a homepage at http://www.kernel.com.

Killer List of Videogames:
This is an exhaustive list of 80's videogames. Excellent reading for
wallowing in nostalgia. The list is in several parts at
ftp://wiretap.spies.com/game_archive/gameList/. Read the "INFO" file
first.

Lemmings:
A page with more information than you could possibly want about all
the versions of Lemmings on various platforms is at
http://stud1.tuwien.ac.at/~e8826423/Lemmings.html.

Links Pro:
The official Links Pro page at
http://www.accesssoftware.com/links_golf/golf.html includes playing
tips and information about the various courses. The Links Pro
Macintosh Tour Page at http://www.magic.mb.ca/~pminer/links.html
allows you to enter your single-player recorded games in a tournament
with other players.

Loderunner:
The ftp site for homebrew Loderunner levels is
ftp://wcl-l.bham.ac.uk/pub/djh/loderunner/. To upload levels, contact
Ron Hunsigner at [email protected].

LucasArts:
The official LucasArts homepage is at http://www.lucasarts.com/.

MacPlay:
The homepage for MacPlay, the Mac division of Interplay, is at
http://www.macplay.com. It includes information and demos for MacPlay
games such as Castles: Siege & Conquest, Wolfenstein 3D, Kyrandia, and
Flashback.

Maelstrom:
The official Maelstrom FAQ is available for ftp from
ftp://ftp.AmbrosiaSW.com/pub/FAQs/Maelstrom_FAQ.hqx and on the web at
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/Ambrosia_FAQs/Ambrosia_FAQs.html.

Marathon:
The best source for patches, editors, hint files, homebrew levels, and
just about anything else having to do with Marathon you can imagine
(and lots of things you can't) is the Marathon HyperArchive Northwest,
maintained by Claude Errera ([email protected]) at
http://www.ese.ogi.edu/pub/entertainment/marathon/. It has hundreds
of maps for both Marathon 1 and Marathon 2, several complete scenarios
for Marathon 1, the latest versions of all available editors, shapes,
and artwork, and links to most of the good Marathon pages out there.
All files are local, and can be accessed via ftp at
ftp://wmj.ese.ogi.edu/pub/mac/entertainment/marathon/.

The newsgroup alt.games.marathon is a good place to meet fellow
addicts.

Marathon Demo FAQ:
Send email to Aapo Puskala at [email protected] with the subject
"Marathon FAQ please".

Marathon Engine FAQ:
Send email to Jeff Eaton at [email protected] with the subject "Engine
FAQ please". Jeff adds that a copy of the FAQ will be sent
automatically; questions about how to get past the crushing room in
Defend This! wil be ignored. :-)

Marathon HyperArchive:
The Marathon HyperArchive is a graphical interface to
ftp://ftp.amug.org. It is at
http://www.amug.org/~marathon/steve/hyper/index.html and is
maintained by Steven M. Wood ([email protected]). Amug is a
very very busy site (you're not the only one whose life has been
consumed by Marathon, you know), so you may have difficulty connecting
during peak hours.

Marathon Spoiler Guide:
The latest version of the spoiler guide can be found at
http://www.amug.org/~marathon/spoiler/ or via ftp at
ftp://www.amug.org/~marathon/spoiler/msg2.txt. You can also send
email to Michael K. Neylon at [email protected] with the subject
"Marathon Spoiler Guide Please".

Master of Orion:
There is an extensive MOO FAQ at
http://www.gamesdomain.co.uk/moo/moo13.html and a MOO Strategy Guide
at http://www.gamesdomain.co.uk/moo/moostr1.html.

Maxis:
Maxis's web site at http://www.maxis.com/index.html includes tech tips
and screenshots for Sim City 2000, SimTower, A-Train, SimEarth,
SimLife, and SimEverythingElse.

Microprose:
The Microprose/Spectrum Holobyte homepage is at
http://www.microprose.com/.

Myst:
Cyan has lots of information and links for Myst on their homepage at
http://www.cyan.com/.

Doug Ingram's excellent Myst Hint Page at
http://www.astro.washington.edu/ingram/myst/index.html has a
hierarchical system of hints so you only see the answers you need.
Michael Neylon's Myst Walkthru at
http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~mneylon/myst/ provides hints
rather than exact puzzle solutions. And for the truly stuck (or very
impatient), Peter MacDougall's extensive Myst Help page at
http://www.itsnet.com:80/home/lminer/myst/ includes exact solutions
and saved games (IBM PC format only, unfortunately).

Operation Crusader:
The Operation Crusader homepage is at http://atomic.com/Crusader.html;
and an extensive Operation Crusader FAQ is available at
http://atomic.com/cru/OC_FAQ.html.

Origin:
Origin, which produces the Wing Commander games, has a homepage at
http://www.ea.com/origin/english/index.html and a Macintosh product
page at
http://www.ea.com/origin/english/prod-info/macintosh/index.html.

Patchlist:
The Patchlist is a list of fixes that the legal owners of certain
games can apply to the programs to bypass the irritating copy
protection schemes. It is available at several WWW locations:
http://www.apanix.apana.org.au/~geoff/files/gphl-current.txt,
http://www.gamesdomain.co.uk/info/gphl.html, and
http://gwis.circ.gwu.edu:80/~gwugs/ghpl/.

Pathways Into Darkness:
David Coufal's Pathways Into Darkness Page at
http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/dcoufal/pid/ includes the demo and
upgraders, David Reevely's PID FAQ, "Pathways into Cheating", the "PID
Basic Survival Guide", maps, and much more.

Poing!:
The Poing! homepage at http://www.opendoor.com/Rick/Poing.html
includes a downloadable copy.

ReadySoft:
ReadySoft, publisher of Dragon's Lair and Space Ace II, has a homepage
at http://www.readysoft.com/.

Realmz:
You can find the Realmz FAQ at
http://enterprise.bih.harvard.edu/~ichou/rlmz25.html, or send email
to Ivan Chou at [email protected] with the subject "Realmz
FAQ please".

The Books of Realmz at
http://www.seas.ucla.edu/~grayson/realmz/Realmz_Books.html include
hyptertext guides such as the Book of Items, the Realmz NPC Doc, the
Book of Beasts, the Realmz Scenario Summary, and the Realmz Acronym
Dictionary. I recommend these pages highly to any serious (or
seriously addicted) Realmzer.

There are several great Unofficial Realmz Pages, including Bill
Fergerson's at http://www.outreach.com/realmz, Jim Foley's at
http://www.engr.wisc.edu/~foley/realmz.html, and Claude Errera's at
http://www.ese.ogi.edu/pub/entertainment/realmz/. These include FAQs,
new game scenarios, updaters, and links to each other.

Realmz: Prelude to Pestilence FAQ:
Send email to Bo Lundqvist at [email protected] with the
subject "Realmz Prelude Faq please" or ftp it from
ftp://www.gamesdomain.co.uk/pub/faqs/realmz-prelude.faq.

Robosport:
Jeff Eaton maintains a Robosport ftp area at
ftp://users.aol.com/afaeaton/robosport that includes an arena editor
and a patch to remove the 16-color limitation. Submissions (movies,
arenas, etc) can be uploaded to ftp://users.aol.com/afaeaton/incoming.

Scarab of Ra:
The Scarab of Ra page at http://www.opendoor.com/Rick/Scarab.html
includes a downloadable version (1.4) that will work on modern Macs.

Semicolon Software:
Semicolon Software, producer of Solitaire Till Dawn, Poing!, and
Scarab of Ra, has a homepage at
http://www.opendoor.com/Rick/Semicolon.html.

The 7th Guest FAQ:
The 7th Guest FAQ is available in hypertext on the WWW at
http://www.stack.urc.tue.nl/~remya/t7g/t7g.html, and you can ftp a
plaintext version from ftp://www.gamesdomain.co.uk/pub/faqs/T7G.faq.
This FAQ does not contain the solutions to all of the puzzles, but it
has a considerable number of hints and solutions.

7th Level Software:
7th Level, which published Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time, has
a homepage at http://www.7thlevel.com that includes demos and online
registration.

Sim City 2000:
Maxis's official Sim City 2000 page is at
http://www.maxis.com/products/simcity2000/index.html.

The Sim City 2000 FAQ is on the web at
http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~hanson/simcity_2000.faq.html. You can
also get it by sending email to Kevin Endo at [email protected] with the
subject "SC2K FAQ please" or ftp it from
ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/th/thx/.

SimTower:
Maxis's official SimTower page is at
http://www.maxis.com/products/simtower/index.html.

For the SimTower FAQ, send email to Brad Stuart at [email protected]
with the subject line "SimTower FAQ please." It's also available as a
Web page at http://cville-srv.wam.umd.edu/~bvs/simtower.html.

Snavely:
A downloadable copy and information about Snavely are available at
Karl Bunker's web page at http://users.aol.com/karlbunker/.

Solitaire Till Dawn:
The Solitaire Till Dawn page at
http://www.opendoor.com/Rick/Semicolon.html includes playing tips and
a series of in-depth articles on "Winning at Solitaire." Solitaire
Till Dawn is also notable for having a "magnetic mouse" option for
addicts with carpal tunnel syndrome.

Spaceward Ho!:
Delta Tao's official Spaceward Ho! homepage is at
http://www.outland.com/deltatao/spacewardho.html. For the Spaceward
Ho! FAQ, send email to [email protected] with the subject 'SPHO
FAQ' (without the quotes, all uppercase), or anon ftp it from
ftp://ftp.cc.columbia.edu/pub/beecher/spaceward-ho-faq. It's also
available as a Web page at
http://www.columbia.edu/~beecher/ho/spaceward-ho-faq.html.

Speedbump:
The Speedbump homepage at http://www.xmission.com/~qkumber/index.html
includes screenshots and a downloadable demo.

Spiderweb Software:
Spiderweb Software, which writes the Exile games, has a homepage at
http://members.aol.com/SpidWeb/root_page.html.

SSG:
SSG (Strategic Studies Group), makers of Warlords II, have a homepage
at http://www.ssg.com.au.

Starplay:
Starplay Productions, makers of ShadowWraith and the pinball games
Crystal Caliburn and Loony Labyrinth, have an ftp site with demos of
their games at ftp://ftp.usa.net/users/starplay/.

Strategic Games:
Michael Hanson ([email protected]) maintains an excellent
Macintosh Strategy Games List, with pointers to further information,
at http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~hanson/mac_strat_games.html.

The Simulation Gaming Home Page at
http://world.std.com/~ctate/strategy.html isn't Mac-specific, but
it's an excellent source of information about strategic games.

Strategic Simulations, Inc.:
SSI, producers of Allied General, have a homepage at
http://www.ssionline.com/.

Swoop FAQ:
The official Swoop FAQ is available for ftp from
ftp://ftp.AmbrosiaSW.com/pub/FAQs/Swoop_FAQ.hqx and on the web at
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/Ambrosia_FAQs/Ambrosia_FAQs.html.

Syzygy Cult:
The Syzygy Cult, makers of Mantra and Space Gypsy, have a homepage at
http://www.biddeford.com/~benyc/home.html.

TacOps:
There is a very thorough TacOps Information Resource at
http://www.astro.nwu.edu/lentz/mac/recreation/tacops/home-tacops.html
.

The author of the game answers questions on
comp.sys.mac.games.strategic in the form of the TacOps Gazette. Old
Gazettes are available at
http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~hanson/csmgs/msg_summaries.html#TacOp
s.

A list of people interested in playing TacOps by email is available at
http://PersonalWebs.myriad.net/backlash/PBEM.html. Players are grouped
into skill levels (neophyte, beginner, intermediate, advanced,
expert).

Thrustmaster:
Thrustmaster, which makes a line of joysticks and other flight-sim
controls for the Mac, has a homepage at http://www.thrustmaster.com.

Tolkien:
Frederik Ekman maintains a list of Mac games related to the works of
J.R.R. Tolkien, author of Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, at
http://www.lysator.liu.se/tolkien-games/mac.html.

Total Distortion:
The publisher's homepage at http://www.poprocket.com/ includes hints,
tech support, and downloadable graphics and sounds from Total
Distortion.

Trilobyte:
Trilobyte, the makers of 7th Guest and 11th Hour, have a homepage at
http://www.tbyte.com/.

Theldrow:
The Theldrow homepage, from which the game can be downloaded, is at
http://www.skypoint.com/members/gandreas/Theldrow.html.

Ultima III:
The Ultima III Macintosh homepage, maintained by the author of the Mac
version, is at http://www.swcp.com/~beastie/ultima3.html. The
cross-platform Ultima WWW Archive is at http://www.udic.org/ultima/.

Unlimited Adventures:
There is a large collection of Unlimited Adventures updates, art,
news, and freeware and shareware modules at
ftp://ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/pub/frua/. ( The files with the .sit
extension are Macintosh modules.) There is also a UA page at
http://www.io.com/~nclegg/unlimadv.html.

Virgin:
Virgin Interactive Entertainment, which published 7th Guest, has a
homepage at http://www.virgin.com.

Warcraft:
The official page for Warcraft: Orcs and Humans is at
http://www.blizzard.com/rwar.htm.

Warlords II:
The Warlords II FAQ is available at the Warlords II homepage, at
http://www.princeton.edu/~rfheeter/w2home.html. This page is
maintained by Robert Heeter, [email protected]. The
official SSG Warlords II page is at
http://www.ssg.com.au/index_files/warlords_ii_home.html.

Wing Commander III:
Origin has a Wing Commander III page at
http://www.ea.com/origin/english/prod-info/macintosh/wing-3/index.htm
l. The Wing Commander III FAQ is very PC oriented, but much of the
gameplay information is useful for Mac players, too. It's available on
the WWW at http://www.gamesdomain.co.uk/games/wc3main.html. There is
also a Mac-specific Wing Commander page at
http://chronic.dartmouth.edu/off_line/wc3.html that includes hints,
pictures, and animation.

Wolfenstein 3D:
Doug Ingram maintains a site at
http://www.astro.washington.edu/ingram/wolf.html that contains
everything the Wolfenstein addict could possibly need: level editors
and random level generators, WolfenCheat, WolfenZoom, and fistfuls of
homebrew Wolf levels.

World of Xeen:
A plaintext Xeen FAQ is available at
ftp://ftp.shore.net/members/wombat/xeen/XEENfaq.txt; you can get it
by sending email to Rabid Wombat at [email protected] with the
subject "Xeen FAQ please". There is also an HTML version at
http://www.shore.net/~rschrock/xeen/, but it requires the use of
Netscape 2.0 or higher to view it.

WWW pages:
For want of a better category, pages that are collections of Macintosh
game links are listed here. This Resource Guide is intended to list
online resources that are specific to particular games or game genres,
so I'm only listing a few pages here, the ones I consider the best
available. (It's my Resource Guide, so I get to decide which are the
best! :-)

Dave Stanworth's Games Domain is the biggest, most popular
games-related site on the planet. It's cross-platform; the PC
predominates, but there is an abundance of Mac links and FAQs. The UK
site is at http://www.gamesdomain.co.uk. The United States mirror at
http://www.gamesdomain.com is updated daily and is much faster for
users on the left side of the Atlantic.

Juhani Sirkia's Cult of Macintosh is dedicated to "blind faith in all
things Apple." The collection of games links is at
http://www.utu.fi:80/~jsirkia/mac/games.html.

The Entertaining Macintosh is now only at Princeton (go tigers) at
http://www.princeton.edu/~pjcreath/macgames/index.html.

Timo Eloranta's Mac Games Page is at
http://www.uta.fi/~sttiel/mac/games.html.

Yahoo's list of Macintosh Games links is at
http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Software/Macintosh/Games/
.

Xconq:
The Xconq homepage, including a browsable manual, is at
http://www.cygnus.com/~shebs/xconq.html. Complete sources and Mac
binaries may be ftp'ed from
ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/xconq/xconq-7.0.1.tar.gz and
ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/xconq/xconq-7.0.1.sea.hqx, respectively.

X-Wing:
Jeff Till's Unofficial Mac X-Wing Page at
http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/mcb/hunter/xwing.html includes a strategy
guide, a screenshot gallery, and a Thrustmaster joystick configuration
file for the game.
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