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I was recently having a conversation with another developer who grew up using Macintosh computers and we were both reminiscing about some of our early development experiences on Mac. Finally, after the PowerPC transition, I used a Power Macintosh 8500 which ran all of the later versions of “Classic” Mac OS. Then I moved up to a Macintosh IIsi running System 7. I started using a Mac with System 6 on a Macintosh Classic.

It includes System 1 all the way up to Mac OS 9.x. This is often referred to as “Classic” Mac OS. His parents have since released Stunt Copter into the public domain.Before macOS, and before OS X, there was just Mac OS.

Sadly, Duane Blehm, author of the Macintosh original, passed away several years back. Those wanting to try before they buy should have a look at the free Mac OS X adaptation from Antell Software.

As the iPhone version looks and plays like an ’80s game, StuntCopter may have limited appeal to those without a special place in their heart for the 1987 Macintosh original. The developer indicates that, while the graphics and sound have been pulled directly from the original, the actual game code has been completely rewritten for the iPhone. All we know is you’ll love the challenge of StuntCopter the addictive gameplay will keep you coming back for more. Does he fall or is he pushed? That’s not for us to decide. The company has the following to say about the title.Īll classic Mac users will remember StuntCopter – the game where you drop an endless supply of flailing little men from a perfectly good helicopter into a horse-drawn cart. Nerdgames has just released an accelerometer-controlled iPhone version of this simple Mac classic through the App Store. Kill all your men, the driver, or the horse and it’s game over. The higher the helicopter, the more points per successful drop. StuntCopter is a rather basic game where the player controls an onscreen helicopter with the objective of dropping little men into a moving horse-drawn, hay-filled cart. Another such title surely worth mentioning is the simple classic Stunt Copter. Crystal Quest, Glider, and Dark Castle are on the list. Oldshool Mac gamers will likely remember a shortlist of classics that provided real entertainment betweens sessions of MacWrite, MacPaint, and other more “productive" titles.