Macintosh Garden - TADS

1893: A World's Fair Mystery

mrdav — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 09:55:45 +0000

1893 A World's Fair Mystery is a text based adventure game with a strong educational flavour, and accompanied by dozens of black and white archival photographs. There are hundreds of intricately described locations and the photographs add so much to the experience, illustrating the grand architecture of the many sprawling buildings, and the magnificent boulevards, statues and fountains that comprised the exhibition.

Sunset Over Savannah

Bolkonskij — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:38:39 +0000

Winner of the 1997 XYZZY Award for Best Writing, Sunset Over Savannah is a medium sized text adventure in the style of Infocom's Zork, Planetfall, and Trinity.

It's been a week of pure bliss, but your vacation in Savannah, Georgia is almost at an end. Soon you'll be back at your hateful job. If only you had enough courage to leave your job and begin a new life! With heavy heart, you set about to explore Savannah's glorious beaches one last time. Perhaps there you'll find the magic you need to set your feet on a new path...

Enhanced

someperson — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:48:56 +0000

A cyberpunk text adventure.

Here you are, trying to survive yet another day in the big city with no money, no job and no hope. As you walk down the street in the government research project area, you suddenly see a sign reading: 'Volunteers needed for military research project! Do you want to make money? Do you want to help your country? Can you start at once? No special skills needed. Enter here.' Everything on the list sounds good to you, so you enter the door and sign up. That's when your nightmare begins...

Lost New York

Carl — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 08:31:37 +0000

They say you can never get to know the true New York as a tourist -- but this is going to turn out to be no ordinary vacation. What you thought would be a quick jaunt to the usual tourist traps instead uncovers an odd find that sends you hurtling through time, coming face-to-face with history. A history that you realize you are going to have to change if you ever want to find your way home...

This is the freeware version, without the hint system. If anyone has the full version, please upload it.

John's Fire Witch

toprak — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:35:06 +0000

It's a cold weekend in December of 1990, and it's been far too long since you have seen your friend John Baker! But you've finally managed to take some time out of your schedule to drive to Columbus and spend some "quality time" together. Quality time, of course, means that you and he are going to sample every bar that Ohio State University's High Street has to offer.