The Surgeon is a educational medical simulation. The goal is to try to diagose and perform surgery on your patient, and to follow the correct procedures. You need to follow very specific approach, as even not scrubing before the surgery can cause...

LAZlife is an early (B&W) game of life simulation that offers a couple settings to play with.  You can set the simulation speed, resolution (very high resolution can be achieved) and the shape of the life bits.  

Balance of Power is the world's first computer peacegame. This simulation allows players to become either the President of the United States or General Secretary of the Soviet Union. Extraordinary artificial intelligence routines and general...

Short for "Raconteur." A conversation simulator with a loopy personality. To return to the Finder, type "quit".

Toy trains, model railroads, and computers go back a long way. Many of the early hackers met and worked at MIT's Tech Model Railroad Club. While they made significant advances in computing, they never did get the trains computerized—until...

The showpiece of the public domain game collection is Billiard Parlour; an impressive simulation that converts the Mac's screen into a pool table (see Figure 4). Created at Reed College by Richard Crandall, Scott Gillespie, and S. Lew using...

Welcome to the CORE WARS system for the Macintosh! Core Wars is the Ultimate game for HACKERS. It was designed by A. K. Dewdney, and described in his "Computer Recreations" collumns which appeared in the May '84 abd March '85...

A cellular automaton simulating predator/prey relations. User input is limited to defining the rules and initial conditions. See also: Core Wars

Eliza is a program for the Apple Macintosh that carries on a simplistic conversation in English. It reproduces the behavior of the classic program of the same name written by Joseph Weizenbaum. The original program gained a measure of...

Squire: The Financial Planning Simulation is a 1-player financial simulation game. The player starts off with a $70,500 investment at the age of 36, and an initial $500 monthly disposable income. The goal is to maximize the player's...

"Harrier to command carrier, I am approaching target island. Register enemy aircraft approaching at rapid speed, location ten o'clock, closing. Wait... 1 detect missile launch, location corresponding to enemy position. Am releasing flare...