Here's a thing I've been working on. I love playing games on my little collection of 1990s-era Macintosh retro computers, but I'm pretty uninterested in hunting down 25-year-old CD cracks. I've been spoiled by the convenience of digital game distribution.

But game *demos* are perfect bite-sized morsels of nostalgic fun that take almost no effort to get running. They were intended to be distributed!

What if there was a website where lots of those game demos from magazine cover CDs were individually available for download? What if that site had an http-only mode so you could access it directly from an old Macintosh?

So I started building that. Say hi to https://classicmacdemos.com

It's very "minimum viable product" and there are only a couple dozen games so far. It's a bit of work to find and package up an individual demo, so I do one or two whenever I have some down time.

Old computer people - send suggestions. What would make this fun for you?

#retrocomputing #retrogaming #macintosh

Carousel, my DOS "typewriter" and latest labor-of-love homebrew project, is now officially released. Aaaahh! Scary and fun!

There's a li'l in-game carnival prize up for grabs for the first 25 downloads, too. ;-)

https://partytimehexcellent.itch.io/carousel