Trivia

Each month we feature a few legacy Mac trivia questions. The answers are at the end of the column.

• Which Mac model, released only in Japan, was the ultra-thin, ultra-light PowerBook—code-named “Mighty Cat”—that never made it to the US?
• Which Mac model was the first to offer an internal CD-ROM option?

Links

My friend Eric Schwarz of ClassicMacWEEKly tipped me off to a neat site: It has pictures of many strange and wonderful Macintosh prototypes on it. Everything from a “flat screen” SE to a translucent Portable. Although the site is in French, the pictures can be enlarged by clicking on them, and most are self-explanatory. I want a Paladin!

Tips

My friend Gary Lyons informed me he has “a ton of complete older software on floppy disk for 68K Macs…” If there’s something you need, let me know and I’ll see whether we can provide it for you.

Games

Last month I asked for input on some older Mac games. Getting a few mentions were:

• “The Uninvited”—it’s a System 6, 1st-player game from 1986, but won’t work any longer.
• “Starglider ll”—by MicroPlay Software. I used to play this one on my Mac Plus. (the Plus still runs, but not the game.)
• “PT 109”—the coolest old war game ever! This one still works well even on a minimum Mac OS 8.6!
• “Space Rogue”—a leap in role playing games in its time. This one also runs on Mac OS 8.6.
• “The Scarab Of Ra”—my personal favorite Mac game. It is still available at this page. A challenging, ever-changing, maze-based game that even works with Mac OS 9.1.

ATPM staffer Greg Tetrault mentioned that Delta Tao has modern versions of two games: Dark Castle and Strategic Conquest He also mentioned he has a number of older games he would be willing to part with. You can contact Greg here.

Quote of the Month

“So we went to Atari and said, ‘Hey, we’ve got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we’ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we’ll come work for you.’ And they said, ‘No.’ So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, ‘Hey, we don’t need you. You haven’t gotten through college yet.’”—Apple Computer, Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak’s personal computer.

Trivia Answers

• The PowerBook 2400c/240
• The Mac IIvx