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- Subject: Mac Game Resources on the Internet FAQ
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- Mac Game Resources on the Internet
-
- Compiled by Christina Schulman, schulman+@pitt.edu
- Last update: 23 Mar 1996
-
- ------------------------------
-
- 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 mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu 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.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- 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
- schulman+@pitt.edu.
-
- 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 jk0101@medtronic.com 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 djh@wcl.bham.ac.uk 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 hnsngr@sirius.com.
-
- 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 (errera@ese.ogi.edu) 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 puskala@cc.helsinki.fi with the subject
- "Marathon FAQ please".
-
-
- Marathon Engine FAQ:
- Send email to Jeff Eaton at AFAEaton@aol.com 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 (smwood@fuji.ccs.neu.edu). 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 mneylon@engin.umich.edu 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 ichou@mercury.bih.harvard.edu 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 Bo.Lundqvist@contactor.se 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 thx@netcom.com 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 brad@cfar.umd.edu
- 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 woodburn@indirect.com 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 (hanson@cs.stanford.edu) 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, rfheeter@phoenix.princeton.edu. 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 rschrock@shore.net 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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