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About the Macintosh Garden
The Macintosh Garden is an abandonware games archive, dedicated in particular to supporting the Macintosh computer platform. A notable feature of Macintosh Garden is its emphasis on game emulation, encouraging users to run historical and in some cases genre-defining games on modern systems.
Games featured on the Macintosh Garden have been discontinued by their publishers and are no longer commercially available. The Macintosh Garden aims to preserve these games for future generations, providing documentation and downloads of the original game files. With respect to copyright, non-qualifying games are removed upon request and a link to the game's purchase page is provided.
The website is primarily a wiki, allowing contributors to upload game files and screenshots as well as edit descriptions and other details. Software is categorized by genre, year, author and publisher.
Originally founded in 2001, by 2007 the archive held over 900 games and 6960 user comments. Throughout this time the site was hosted by Home of the Underdogs until late 2008 when the host went bankrupt. The Macintosh Garden has since been relaunched and plans are underway to preserve the archive itself with the University of Portsmouth's KEEP Project.
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My antivirus sw on the WinBlows machine reports it as MacOS:Nvir
Link?
Games 8 of the VAS has a virus.
The new forum called Talking About Macintosh has opening today. You can register here:
http://sheepmyshaver123.freevar.com/forum/index.php
Thank you for bringing back the VAS!
Edited by IIGS_User: I've added it to the 'Friends' area on the main page
Visit my vMac Applications site here:
http://sheepmyshaver123.freevar.com
Glad to see this site back up, I've been using the old one since 2002, and when it went offline I really had a very sad feeling. Thank you so much for bringing it back up. Will be making my donation to suppose the cause, and I encourage others to do the same, this site is invaluable.
Thanks to my friend Bob from Montréal; Sparkz (1993) now relives for iPhone / iTouch.
See under the same in iTunes USA / Canada. Bob has done a good job and Sparkz now a staff favourite at iTunes and a top seller in its categories.
Thanks for your comments and encouragements.
Marc D.
I have been looking for apps and games for my old iMac G3 (with OS 9), and I'm so happy to found you, thank you very much! Please keep the good work...
I am new here! I have an iMac Bondi Blue I can use again because of this site!
THANK YOU MACINTOSH GARDEN!!!
BEST MAC SITE EVA!!!
oh... and i am a pc... with quad core windows 7 as min comp..
i got a Power Macintosh running system 8.6 though lol
I have the apple ID called morunapple. Here is the link of Apple Recovery Archive:
http://spftp.info.apple.com/Apple_Recovery_Archive/
You can find all system software 7.1.2-9.2.2, all Apple Software, all Performa restores and more.
However, I cannot access because I not the Apple Service Provider. I also don't have the GSX access credentials to get here.
Edit: This one is came from my ISO of Apple SSW Recovery 2 CD.
An archive of most Apple software is available on the Support Professional Web Site
The Apple Software Recovery Archive, containing disk images of most Apple software, is available from the Support Professional Web Site. Support Professional authorized contacts have been given a password and access information to this site. If you are unable to access this server, send a message to adm...@spmail.info.apple.com.
PS: add adm...@spmail.info.apple.com
Want to access the incomplete Mac Archive? Here is:
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=7e8a22f588d7ab0836df4e8dca141969dc570...
Regarding discussion about mycatisbigfoot's iDisk, please cont. at
http://macintoshgarden.org/forum/status-update-macintosh-garden
is there a password on it? Cause I can't Get connected to it.
Great, we could need further download locations.
You guys can use my idisk,
Its mycatisbigfoot
It has read and write, I have 17GB on it
You can download the AUTOCADs, Appleworks, etc..
from here (and much more)
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=b88e2ce4ed1308ff91b20cc0d07ba4d2499b7...
Yes I was referring to Aquazone Deluxe, sorry for the confusion. Someone seeded all the apps I requested except for autocad, but I'm glad to hear they will be more easily available in the future.
Aquazone is under 5 MB so it's available as a direct download. If you meant Aquazone Deluxe, I've added an alternative download link for it. The other apps you request will be added to a list I'm compiling to address the problem.
Not all the files are just drag and drop. Some may be archived, some may simply be disk images in formats that aren't supported. One way to do it is to make sure that you have Disk Copy 4.2 in your virtual Macintosh, it seems to have the most options when it comes to mountable disks.
Another possibility is that the filesystem of the disks is incompatible. They may be formatted HFS+ which is not supported on systems before 8.0
I've been trying to get myself set up with old computers and software the last few days and it's been fun. I've run into some of the very same problems you have, but they're all fixable. It's actually harder if you're doing it on a real computer since you can't use something to help. You're stuck with what's on your old computer
can someone seed the torrents? specifically autocad, aquazone, and apple works 5.0.4 + 6
um.... are any of the bandwidth problems going to be fixed?
anything over 200mb can't be downloaded
I have downloaded , (get ready to call me a noob) and when I drag the files into vmac it says the game is unreadable by macintosh even though the site said it was compatible , please help , I run vista
Hi, I am a very recent user on this site. The concept seems Outright AWESOME, but many of the files hosted here are unfortunately unavailable because of 1) Files bigger then 100 cannot be hosted by owner, couse it's expensive. All that is understandable. But what's up with people putting up torrents of games and not seeding at all? Every game I've tried to download via torrents so far has 0 seeders.
I've also been looking for Number Maze. I seem to recall that the reward (upon completion of the maze) was to have a random object added to a room. It was really pointless, but I remember laughing about some of the silly things that my brother and I would win. Anyway, I have a floppy disk of Number Maze at my parents' house, but unfortunately that is thousands of miles away in another country (and is probably unreadable by now anyway).
Hi everybody,
I also recall the publisher was Great Wave if that helps. Does anybody remember this one? Google is of little help...
I've been looking for "Number Maze" for a few years now. It is a math-oriented educational game (I remember fractions were the word of the day, but there was other things in it) while you guide your bee (or another animal perhaps) unlocking doors until you get to a house.
I remember that game from my SE/30, but I used to play at a friend's because we could play it in glorious color.
Hello, back im my younger days, i used to draw and edit my works a lot using Photoshop 1.0.7, which now resides on my dead Macintosh Classc II =( fast forward a few years, i got a Macintosh Performa 5215CD which works like a charm, now im trying to open again all my works from the past years, but i dont know what kind of format does that photoshop used, because i cannot open any of my works with newer version of photoshop, ok problem is, i downloaded photoshop 1.0.7 from here (awesome site btw ^^) but when i try to unstuffit it says that the file is corrupt >< any help would be great!
Thank you, Euryale. You're a lifesaver.
Forgive my bad memory balrog but what are we were talking about?
Agent5, it was published by Electronic Arts,
I wiil upload a screenshot.
@MacWise: Just email me at arm3...@gmail.com and I'll help you out with it.
Thank you! That's exactly the sort of information I was hoping for.
One last question regarding the game - Can anyone who can run the game tell me who the publisher for the Mac version was? I assume it was Electronic Arts but someone else has suggested it might by ORIGIN Systems
Thanks You for the clarification.
It's just to prevent robots. There's no download limit yet. If there was we'd post info, though I would prefer no download limit. =)
is there a download limit? or do you have to log in just to prevent robots from downloading files
It most certainly was. I bought it and played it. Not sure I still have the original media, I may have given it away with my IIci.
Well no, I know. It's most certainly for the Mac. While I've been having trouble running it in an emulator I recall playing it on an ancient G3. I was just wondering if it had ever been released officially as a stand alone game.
@Agent5:
You can download it, so yes, it's for Mac.
Does anyone have evidence that the Mac version of Populous was ever actually released? A cover scan, or something similar? I know it exists on the site, but that doesn't necessarily mean it was released.
Lagoman-- Only a Macintosh with a built in (or Apple-made) floppy drive will be able to copy the Lagomorph disk. If you don't have one where you are, I would be glad to pay the shipping cost so you can send me the disk and I can upload it here. Please write me at wint...@gmail.com
I also believe HFV Explorer isn't compatible with 64 bit windy OS.
@mrnukem:
That utility won't work with 800K disks, but only with 1.4MB disks. The floppy drive hardware in PC's is simply incapable of reading or writing 800K Mac disks.
http://www.fenestrated.net/~macman/stuff/HFVExplorer/
The above freeware utility will let you read and write mac disks on your Windows PC. I use it all the time to transfer info and to create disk images for my MAC SE
I have a copy of an old school Mac game called Lagomorph. But is on a 720k floppy and I have no way of getting it off of there. Any suggestions?
Lagoman
I got to play it a few times back circa 1989-90 but my copy is long gone. You were flying a B-17 bomber, shooting at German planes. The crew would chime in with comments like "Can't Breathe, Skipper" or "Skipper, we're freezing back here".
I'd appreciate anyone with knowledge chiming in. And a wonderful website, I am glad it exists. Let me find a job and I'll donate. The old black and white Macs had a charm all their own that I kind of miss.
Re: C & C
I got this as a freebie for taking out a magazine subscription. A great, great game, but it's on 2 CDs, far too big for the site.
Although I have seen copies of the game available by other means, weighing in at just 40MB. It's the Movies and the extra music on the 2CDs that take up 95% of the space, so it is possible that this 40MB version is playable.
Of course, if you have an Intel Mac, you could buy a set of discs with every version of C&C ever released for PC for about $5 and play it under BootCamp / Parallels. I could even play the PC version under VPC on my MDD.
@hackattack
All the games were originally made for mac but we do try to support people on other operating systems. Head over to the , look for the Windows Emaculation tutorial.
so i have a windows computer for this program and i really wanna get these games to work on but the whole process is complicated since its a macintosh based gaming site..i need help step by step on what i need to download, how to make the emulations work, how to apply the games to the emulation so that i can get going on playin these games because i really wanna play em so bad!! im so confused on what to do!! i downloaded the sheepshaver and baslik emulations and also a game and tried to get them to work but my computer says theres an error and wont run anything so help me step by step exactly what i need to do please!!
@moltm4785, sorry not sure anyone has any other copies?
http://macintoshgarden.org/games/taskmaker