## Description
_Mac OS X_ (ten) is an operating environment for Apple’s computers dating
roughly from the turn of the millennium, succeeding its OS 9.
As OS X runs the Darwin operating system under the hood, a variant of UNIX, it
also incorporates some common UNIX applications, including the Emacs text
editor, which in turn contains minimal implementations of several common games
(or “amusements”) including `tetris`, `pong`, `eliza`, `hanoi`, `snake`,
`gomoku`, `life` and the text adventure `dunnet` among others (a complete list
of which can be obtained inside Emacs by hitting the very Emacsian key combo
Control-h p then selecting “games”.)
In addition to these games, Max OS X includes a Chess application (based on
glChess) that has been running with the Sjeng strong chess engine since Mac OS
X v10.4. Furthermore, it contains a simple Tile Game widget on the Dashboard.
Up to the 2006 Intel hardware changeover, OS X also contained Classic
Environment, a “hardware and software abstraction layer” (or emulator of a
sort), allowing users to run programs (including games) from previous versions
of the Mac OS, while more recent versions include Rosetta, which allows the
execution of programs (including games) written for the Mac’s prior PowerPC
hardware under the new Intel architecture.
Minimum System Requirements | ||
OS | Mac OS X 10.0 (Cheetah) |