Smarty is the second of three CD-ROM games by Theresa Duncan.

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From [the Wikipedia article for Theresa Duncan][1]:

> Theresa Duncan (October 26, 1966 ? July 10, 2007) was an American
> video game designer, blogger, filmmaker and critic. By the late
> 1990s, she was recognized as one of the most critically acclaimed
> game designers for young girls.
>
> [...]
>  Duncan created three influential CD-ROM computer games for young
> girls in the second half of the 1990s: [Chop Suey][2], Smarty, and
> [Zero Zero][3]. These games were designed as alternatives to her
> traditionally male-oriented field where the few "girls' games"
> created embodied a "model of boy-catching self-fulfillment". Duncan
> spoke out against market-tested girls' games characterized by an
> "earnest blandness" and a "perfunctory feminism [like] slapping the
> pink bow on Pacman".
>
> All three games created by Duncan are story-based and revolve around
> search and discovery. 1995's [Chop Suey][2] is an interactive
> storybook, where two young girls explore the town of Cortland, Ohio.
> Smarty (1996) tells the story of the titular young girl's visit to
> her Aunt Olive for the summer?there she hosts a spelling radio show,
> explores small-town life, and visits a mysterious dime store.
> Released in 1997, [Zero Zero][3] follows a young girl named Pink�e
> in fin de si�cle Paris who hops from rooftop to rooftop, explores
> the catacombs, and experiences the city.

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There's so little information about these games, I never knew if the
last two of them were simultaneously released for the Mac or not.
However, I recently purchased a copy of Smarty on eBay, and was
surprised to discover that a Windows/Mac hybrid was (re)released in
1998. (But again, whether or not the Mac version was released in 1996
is still unverified.)

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Compatibility
Architecture: 68k PPC

I quickly tested the PPC version in SheepShaver running Mac OS 8.6 and
it seemed to work. The 68K version, however, crashes in Basilisk II
running System 7.5.5, and I'm not sure why. All of the extensions are
present and the (virtual) monitor is set to 256 colors.

  [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresa_Duncan
  [2]: http://macintoshgarden.org/games/chop-suey
  [3]: http://macintoshgarden.org/games/zero-zero