Balance of Power IIgs is a strategy game in which you head one of the two great powers of the Cold War era and sift through advice on how to handle political crises. Handle them well, and your national prestige increases. Handle them badly, and the world is destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. The author, Chris Crawford, has made the game freeware. I've reproduced his e-mail to me below. Ignore the references to PSB (another of his games). Enjoy, -Gareth Jones (gslj@intergate.ca) Subject: Re: old games Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 09:19:24 -0700 From: Chris Crawford Organization: Orbiting Mind Control Lasers, Inc. To: gslj@intergate.bc.ca References: 1 Sorry, but there's no other version of PSB that supports other color depths. I always hated that damn color depth system Apple used. Nowadays it's not an issue, thank god. As to Balance of Power, it's already freeware. I have the Mac and Wintel versions available for download on my website at www.erasmatazz.com. By implication, the other ports are also freeware. Chris Gareth wrote: > Hello, Chris > > I'm contacting you for two reasons: selfish and altruistic, > respectively. > > The selfish one first: the first of the only two games that I've bought > for my Macintosh is your excellent "Patton Strikes Back". I loved that > game on a Mac LC III, but its 16-colour requirement means that I cannot > run it at all on an iMac. I don't suppose that anyone ever did a > 256-colour version, did they? > > The altruistic one: I'm one of a few people running around trying get a > reasonable sample of Apple II programs released as freeware for > archiving on the net and enjoyment. We've had a fair bit of luck: most > of the programs by Beagle Bros, Quality Computers, Penguin/Polarware and > others have become copyrighted freeware. I was wondering if you would be > willing to do this with Balance of Power for the IIgs. (Which I own, and > enjoy, or I wouldn't have asked :-) > > Thanks for many hours of fun on two computer platforms. > > -Gareth Jones