ChipWits is a 1984 puzzle game released for the original black & white compact Mac. You had to program a robot making it through mazes and overcome challenges. The game garnered a solid fan base, but unfortunately, compatibility broke with later versions of the Mac OS, leading to many players missing this early Mac gaming gem.

Mac Garden user VMSZealot sets out to change that by porting ChipWits to C and making it compatible with later versions of the Mac OS, stating the mission with "Wouldn't it be nice if you could run it on your Mac SE, LC475 or PowerMac?".

More info: Macintosh Garden.

The excellent website Classic Mac Networking regarding all things old Mac + networking has seen a major update. Author MK 5.58 provides what can easily be considered the net's best resource on Classic Mac Networking. Best of all, the page is open & unencrypted - Classilla will display it nicely out of the box! Take a look around!

Cameron Kaiser released beta 6 of his Lynx port for (classic) Mac OS. The text-based browser is now available in a special PowerPC version too. Mostly UI improvements and bugfixes have been added. A detailed post on the developer's blog goes into the difficulties with this update and his future plans for MacLynx, like adding built-in Crypto Ancienne for onboard TLS. Download MacLynx from the official website.