The Sargon series were the connoisseur's chess games at the time. This edition includes variable move times, ranging from 5 seconds to infinity. Moves can be undone and you can swap sides during the game. The search feature displays its calculations as you play, which can be useful to learn from. Special tactical situations, opening move sequences and checkmate practices …

The original SARGON was written by Dan and Kathleen 'Kathe' Spracklen in a Z80-based computer called Wavemate Jupiter III using assembly language through TDL Macro Assembler. The name was originally written entirely in capitals because early computer operating systems such as CP/M did not support lower-case file names. SARGON was introduced at the 1978 West Coast Computer Faire where it …

Cribbage is a card game that has been popular for centuries. In this adaptation, you compete against the computer in a standard game trying to beat your opponent to a score of 121. Points are scored according to standard cribbage rules: The game gives you a beginner play mode where the computer scores all points for both of you, or …

Factor Blast is an educational game where two players (or one player versus AI) take turns picking numbers from a grid. The starting player can choose any of the number which is then blasted and removed from the grid. The second player then has pick numbers that are factors of the first player's number. For example if player one picks …

Don't Shoot That Word! is an educational game that plays like a shooting gallery game. A number of words move across the screen and the player has to shoot the correct ones down by hitting a bulls-eye located above them. There are two variations of the game: reading game and rhyming game. In the reading game the objective is to …

The daughter of Millicent Hyacinth Sizemore, Cartier-Blanche Sizemore a construction heiress has been kidnapped and if she is not found by midnight then she will be murdered, so you, Al Clubs, a private detective has been given the job to find her. You must explore the city looking for clues and talk to people in your quest for the missing …

Search and scour the medieval landscape for the Holy Grail!

The Sargon series were the connisseur's chess games at the time. This edition includes variable move times, ranging from 5 seconds to infinity. Moves can be undone and you can swap sides during the game. The search feature displays its calculations as you play, which can be useful to learn from. Special tactical situations, opening move sequences and checkmate practices …

This text adventure transports the player deep into the South American jungles, in the footsteps of renowned archaeologist Dr. Paul Jamison - a friend who had disappeared under unknown circumstances on his quest to unearth the ancient secrets of the Inca Empire. Spurred on by a mysterious note from Jamison, and by the sole item he had left you (a …

An obscure and arguably the first text adventure creation program for the IBM PC. Released in 1985 it is a fore runner to today's point and click authoring systems, using a series of DOS based menus and pop-up windows to create your world and all the objects and characters that populate it. CNCS gives you the power to create games …

The Great Maine to California Race is an educational game that teaches geography and facts about the American states. The game is for two players (or one player against the computer) who both control a dragster. The aim of the game is, as the title says, to drive from Maine and reach California before the opponent does so. In each …