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Through the Looking Glass (aka Alice)

As Alice, you must outmanoeuvre a fast-moving array of enemy pieces on a chessboard.

Likely the first game ever made for the Mac, and the only one ever developed and retailed by Apple. The author has also released a 25th anniversary version for the iPhone.

I bought this game shortly after getting my first 128K Mac back in 1984. It was a lot of fun back then, and it came in really nice packaging that resembles a small cloth-bound book (which I still have). It never received much marketing by Apple due to the perception at the time that the Mac was not a serious productivity tool. Andy Hertzfeld wrote a wonderful article about the game's history on Folklore.org. - [unknown reviewer]

This game, or at any rate a still from it, was shown during the Mac's introduction at the 1984 Apple shareholder's meeting. You can get the video of the meeting here. When I first watched the video, I was surprised to see what was obviously a game on the Mac's screen, given Apple's wariness of games on the Mac in those early days. - ibookworm

(Together for the first time online: this package contains the full contents of the original game disk, a minivMac-bootable image of said disk, two pre-release versions of "Alice," and a guide to the game's scoring and secrets.)

Emulation doesn't really do this game justice; it is too fast even at Mini vMac's slowest speed. Play it on a real Mac for full effect.

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k

Unlikely to play well on anything above a compact Mac. Emulation is fine.
Will run is OS 9.2.2 and on a G3, but entirely too fast, and WILL crash at some point. Use a slower Mac and older OS for best results.

Type N for New Game, Q to quit. Requires a black-and-white Mac or vMac.

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