About the Macintosh Garden
The Macintosh Garden is an
abandonware games archive, dedicated in particular to supporting the
Macintosh computer platform. A notable feature of Macintosh Garden is
its emphasis on game emulation, encouraging users to run historical and
in some cases genre-defining games, on modern systems.
Games featured on the Macintosh Garden have been discontinued by
their publishers and are no longer commercially available. The Macintosh
Garden aims to preserve these games for future generations, providing
documentation and downloads of the original game files. With respect to
copyright, non-qualifying games are removed upon request and a link to
the games purchase page is provided.
The website is primarily a wiki, allowing contributors to upload game
files, screenshots and edit game descriptions and other details.
Anonymous user ratings are allowed, however user registration is
required to comment or download. Games are categorized by genre, year,
author and publisher.
Originally founded in 2001, by the year 2007 the archive counted at
over 900 games and 6960 user comments. Throughout this time the site was
hosted by Home of the Underdogs
until late 2008 when the host went bankrupt. The Macintosh Garden has
recently been relaunched and plans are underway to preserve the archive
itself with the University of Portsmouth's KEEP Project.