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Hey old school Mac gamers, Bolo is back!

Classic game “Bolo” died on Mac more than two decades ago. It’s back for modern Macs for free on Steam now, and on the App Store for iPhone later. You need to try it.

Vintage computer setup on a white table with two beige Macintosh Classic II computers, keyboards and mouse, surrounding a central Imagewriter, in the Mac Museum in Australia
Bolo, on classic hardware – Image Credit MacMuseum.au

Ages and ages ago, when I was still in the Navy and transferring from one duty station to another, my brother was visiting. It was freezing and snowing, and we were basically stuck in the hotel room, with a U-Haul outside with everything I owned in it.

In a hotel in Saratoga Springs, we hooked up a very rudimentary network with Farallon PhoneNet connectors between my Classic II and a Mac Portable obtained from, I think, Shreve Systems, and played network games all afternoon.

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