Uploaded April 2022 | Updated September 2026, 22 minutes ago
This black and white port of 'Archon' from Free Fall Associates and Electronic Arts (EA near its infancy!) was released in 1986. It uses a higher resolution than most ports of its early days and offers surprisingly fast combat animation for the unsuspecting Macintosh gamer. This technical feat is in great part thanks to the late Jim Nitchals who made a few ports of the game, including this one. It truly is only compatible with a Mac 512 or a Plus (and now, mini-vMac) because of page flipping. It will have issues on a Mac SE or later, including sound glitches.
This game has been unplayable/unfoundable on emulators for AGES, refusing to work in mini-vMac for the longest time. I remember trying to scour the web for a working copy despite the copy protection way back in 2004. Only my physical copy would work on my physical Mac Plus back then. A cracked version finally found its way around 2010.
The video signal comes straight from 4 wires from inside the Macintosh Plus, into a RGB2HDMI device that I self-assembled by using the info in this project: github.com/hoglet67/RGBtoHDMI
This black and white port of 'Archon' from Free Fall Associates and Electronic Arts (EA near its infancy!) was released in 1986. It uses a higher resolution than most ports of its early days and offers surprisingly fast combat animation for the unsuspecting Macintosh gamer. This technical feat is in great part thanks to the late Jim Nitchals who made a few ports of the game, including this one. It truly is only compatible with a Mac 512 or a Plus (and now, mini-vMac) because of page flipping. It will have issues on a Mac SE or later, including sound glitches.
This game has been unplayable/unfoundable on emulators for AGES, refusing to work in mini-vMac for the longest time. I remember trying to scour the web for a working copy despite the copy protection way back in 2004. Only my physical copy would work on my physical Mac Plus back then. A cracked version finally found its way around 2010.
The video signal comes straight from 4 wires from inside the Macintosh Plus, into a RGB2HDMI device that I self-assembled by using the info in this project: github.com/hoglet67/RGBtoHDMI
