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If Monks Had Macs

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Category:	Books & Multimedia
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Year released:	1988
Author:	Brian Thomas
Publisher:	The Voyager Company
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Download ifmonkscd.cdr_.sit (49.83 MB)
For System 7.0 - 7.6 - Mac OS 9

Manual

Emulation
This game works with: SheepShaver, Basilisk II,

It's hard to define exactly what If Monks Had Macs is. On just one CD-ROM, you can enjoy fiction from G.K. Chesterton and Nathaniel Hawthorne; read essays about various subjects such as art; learn more about the JFK assassination; and play games like Meat & Conversation, an adventure game in which you play as a monk whose vivid imagination defies reality and questions the human soul. Though its hard to define as a game, all of this content makes If Monks Had Macs a truly mind opening experience that is hard to forget and even harder to pull away from. The software was later released as freeware in 2009 and included new content not seen in the original CD-ROM release.

Description source: Adventure Legends/If Monks had Macs
See also Applelinks.com and developer's page Rivertext.com who made this freeware in 2009.

Amazon.com Buy link: If Monks Had Macs

'If Monks had Macs' CD image
If_Monks…_CD.cdr.sit (49.8 MB)
For Mac OS 7.0 to 9.2.2

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k

Any color Macintosh, 3,500K of free RAM, 13" (640x480) monitor.

Comments

by Slik - 2013, November 2 - 10:11pm

Rather buried in the author's site is the original 1988 freeware version which works nicely on System 6.0.8 in Mini vMac. He requests that the hosting page not be linked, but you can get there from the "archived here" link at bottom of his "ancient history" page. I remember seeing that version in college; it epitomized just how cool Macs were compared to any other personal computer in the 1980's.