I’ve got Hangman Plus running on the Macintosh LC 475, and it’s bringing back a few memories. This is one of the earliest Macintosh games I remember playing, although I don’t think it was on an LC 475 back then. Naturally, I thought I’d give it another go and see how well I could remember my letter guessing!

This is Hangman Plus 2.0, and I’ve started with the animals category. You’d think that would be fairly straightforward, but I still managed to make a complete mess of guessing the letters. The answer turned out to be turkey. How I didn’t spot that sooner, considering the number of them wandering around outside, is anybody’s guess!

There are quite a few categories to choose from, including American state capitals and presidents. Probably more useful if you happen to live in the United States! Still, it’s a great little game, and there’s something rather enjoyable about playing it on an old Macintosh again.

The LC 475 is running from a 2 GB CompactFlash card, with around 1.9 GB of free hard drive space. Plenty of room for even more 68k games! I’ve also used dd to make a disk image and copy it to my other CompactFlash cards, so I’ve now got a backup of the system rather than relying on just one card.

I’ve still got a few things I’d like to do with this Macintosh, particularly finding a proper full 68040 with a working FPU. For now, though, it’s running nicely and keeping me entertained. Even if I’m not particularly good at Hangman!