Introduction to Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection
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Summary
The article introduces Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection, a set of small computer programs implementing one-player puzzle games that run on Unix, Windows, and the web. The collection includes various puzzle games for entertainment and mental stimulation.
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· 3 pulled2023-09-20: I'm sorry to say that I'm no longer going to be able to build the MacOS version of these puzzles.
My Mac was very old and had been struggling for a while; it's now stopped working, and I don't intend to buy a new one.
If someone else would like to volunteer to maintain the Mac front end code and provide a downloadable application, I'll help them
This page contains a collection of small computer programs which
implement one-player puzzle games. All of them run natively on Unix
(GTK) and on Windows. They can also be played on the web, as Java or
Javascript applets.
