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Archive-name: macintosh/games-resource-guide
Last-modified: 1996/03/23 Posting-Frequency: bimonthly URL: http://www.ambrosiasw.com/csmg-faq/resource-guide.html See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge 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/ 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/. 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/ 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/. Bolo FAQ: The Bolo FAQ is at ftp://noproblem.uchicago.edu/pub/Bolo/ 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/ 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/. 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/ 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/. 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/ 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/. 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/. 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/ 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/; 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. ------------------------------ If you link to this page, please let me know so that I can notify you if it moves. Copyright 1996 by Christina M. Schulman, Mar-96 -- Christina Schulman http://www.pitt.edu/~schulman schulman+@pitt.edu User Contributions:
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