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The 1986 Risk game on the Apple Macintosh

If you played around with the original Apple Mac (or Mac Plus) in the late 80's, you may remember the Risk game:

Now I have a Mac SE and a Mac Classic, along with all my old disks, but I never boot them up these days.

I long to play Risk though, and none of the new PC versions have quite the same feel as the old ones, so I occasionally get a Mac down from my loft and boot it up for a few games.

I recently decided to try out an emulator and see if I could copy the game over to the PC. To cut a long story short, I succeeded, and to save you the effort, I offer you the following download:

Mac emulator for Windows including Risk game (408 KB)

The zip file contains version 3.0.2 of Mini vMac for Windows, emulating a Mac Plus, along with the Mac Plus ROM, and a minimal Mac Plus System 6.0.8 boot disk containing the Risk program. It also contains a Windows shortcut which will start the emulator and boot from the disk image in one go. Just click the "Risk" shortcut to get going!

Please note that to use the Mac Plus ROM legally, you must own an Apple Mac computer with the appropriate ROM.

I would also like to point out that the Risk game was written by Antonie J. Engel a.k.a. Tone Engel, and is copyright to him. As far as I can tell from my research, there was never any way to purchase a copy, and it freely circulated amongst Mac owners. If Tone does not approve of his program being distributed in this way, please contact me and I will remove the download.

The version of Risk here has been slightly modified by me (back in the early 90's) to give more interesting player names than "Player 1", etc. I seem to remember I used a resource editor to do this.

UPDATE: I've had a number of people contact me who have modern Macs and would like to get this game working on it. I haven't got easy access to a modern Mac to test it out and write detailed instructions, but there are a few options:

• Download one of the Mac versions of the Mini vMac emulator, and then download my Risk zip file above. You'll need the "riskboot.dsk" and "vMac.ROM" files out of my zip file.
• Try to run the Risk game directly on your Mac. I'm not sure how well the modern Macs cope with older Mac programs - but it might run in the Classic environment. Nick Beland sent me this zip file containing just the Risk game, which you can try.
• Try to run the newer Risk II game directly on your Mac. Again, it may not work on modern Macs, but you can try. I haven't tried to get this working in the emulator as it requires colour, which Mini vMac doesn't support. I found this somewhere on the net, and haven't tested it, but it might be helpful. It's a Mac hqx compressed file.

If you get bitten by the bug to play with Mac nostaglia, check out Mini vMac further, and add a larger hard disk to your emulator.

If you still have your old Mac and want to transfer files over to the emulator, you need to format a 1.44 MB floppy on the Mac, copy the files onto that, and then use Gemulator Explorer to read the Mac disk on your PC - use the "Create Image File From Physical Disk" option to create a ".dsk" file that Mini vMac can open.

Incidentally, I only found one other website describing this Risk game. Surely more people remember and love this game!

If you have any questions or comments I'd love to hear them.