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An aside on retro gaming on Mac

I’m not much of a gamer. In fact, I don’t think I’ve played any games in the past decade.

But I do have very fond memories of playing a couple games on an old translucent iMac G3 in the school computer room in primary.

On some late night Wikipedia rabbit hole I ended up on the page for Antz and was reminded of the old-school-cool games I’d played: Bugdom and Nanosaur.

It turns out, they’re been immortalised and ported to run on macOS with Apple Silicon. You can download them (for free): Nanosaur and Bugdom2. They run like a charm and with beautiful graphics scaling to boot!