Mac Source Ports features native app builds of source ports of your favorite games for both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs, signed and notarized whenever possible.
Developer: LucasArts
Release Date: February 7, 1998
Most of the time an expansion pack is just more content, usually some new enemies, etc. Star Wars Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith is an expansion to Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II but it featured more improvements like colored lighting and improved textures. It also featured Mara Jade, the most popular Expanded Universe character in history.

Developer: LucasArts
Release Date: October 10, 1997
The second entry in the franchise, Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II (aka Star Wars: Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight) evolved with the times. Whereas the first game was a sprite-based FPS similar to DOOM and Duke Nukem 3D, this game was a polygonal affair, contemporary to Quake.

Developer: Monolith Productions
Release Date: November 10, 2000
And now we have the first No One Lives Forever game on modern Macs again.
The Operative: No One Lives Forever is the first in the series that I believe was supposed to be titled The Operative with different subtitles but in typical Game Industry Naming Logic, they decided the subtitle was going to be the name of the series.
Anyway, like its sequel is a comedic first-person shooter in a 1960's Bond-esque world with a hip female protagonist. And like the second game, has been impossible to buy for years now for tedious business reasons.
And like the second game we now have a reverse engineered source port on the Mac. Similar to the Fallout 3/Fallout: New Vegas debate, there's a divide as to which of the two games people prefer, but now you can try them both out and see for yourself.

Developer: Monolith Productions
Release Date: October 1, 2002
I may have overused the term Cult Classic on this site, but this game goes one step further: it's one of gaming's Holy Grails.
No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s Way is the second entry in the NOLF series. You play as Cate Archer, a spy for U.N.I.T.Y., a British counter-terrorism group fighting the H.A.R.M. organization. Basically it's a parody/homage to the James Bond movies of the 1960's with a stylish, groovy protagonist. The game was critically well recieved and is beloved within gaming fandom.
So why is it a White Whale? Because it has been commercially unavilable for many years now. It's a bizarre situaiton where the companies involved with making the games have been bought and sold and absorbed enough times that no one knows who owns the rights. The parties involve are willing to spend the effort to quash efforts from GOG and Night Dive to reissue the game but not enough to actually hash out the rights.
So consequently it was absolutely not on my Bingo card for this year that someone would figure out how to run the game on Apple Silicon. So if you fall in the Venn Diagram of people who want to play this game and are willing to figure out how to get the data on your Mac, prepare yourself for one of the best games money can't buy, though not for lack of trying.

Developer: New World Computing
Release Date: June 8, 1999
There's lots of game series whose entries reflect the evolution of gaming technology, but not many of them can lay claim to staring the series on the Apple II and Commodore 64.
Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor is the seventh entry in the mainlne Might and Magic series, which runs parallel to the Hereos of Might and Magic series. Released in 1999 (the Best Year for Gaming, Ever) it is the second game in the series to use a 3D engine. The OpenEnroth project aims to implement Might and Magic VI, VII and VIII, but at the moment only VII is playable.

Developer: id Software
Release Date: June 22, 1996
Source Code Release Date: December 21, 1999
Quake is a first-person shooter, the first in the Quake series, which added polygonal enemies, advanced geometry, and a soundtrack by Nine Inch Nails. A fascinating example of grappling with technology changes in parallel to gameplay, it spawned entire industries of modders and mutiplayer gaming.
The vkQuake port was derived from the QuakeSpasm Spiked port and uses Vulkan on macOS by way of MoltenVK. In addition, vkQuake recently added support for the remastered version of Quake from Night Dive Studios.
And because I've had a few requests for it, we are now hosting a build of DarkPlaces as an alternative port.
If you want to experience what it was like to play Quake at laumch before the advent of GLQuake or hardware acceleration, we have added Chocolate Quake as an additional option.

Developer: Simtex Software
Release Date: September 1993
Described by some as "Civilization in space", Master of Orion is a 4X strategy game where you lead one of ten alien races to conquer the galaxy via dominaton or diplomacy. You start small, with a single homeworld and few resources and build out from there. There are different types of planets, the various races have different specialities, and there is a variety of technologies available to persue. The ultimate world to conquer is the titular Orion, which is also the hardest to conquer.
Although simplistic by today's standards, the game has developed a cult following, multiple sequels, spiritual successors, and even a reboot.
NOTE: the 1oom source port is compatible with the original, DOS-based version of the game from 1993, not the reboot from 2016 named Master of Orion: Conquer the Stars, which is sometimes just called Master of Orion. Most retailers sell the 1993 game in a 2-pack along with its first sequel under the titme Master of Orion 1+2.

Developer: Oddworld Inhabitants
Release Date: September 18, 1997
A cheery game with a grotesque protagonist and a dark premise, Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee is one of the best selling PlayStation games of all time. This side scroller has you playing as Abe, an enslaved creature trying to rescue as many of his comrades as he can once they discover that management is about to go all "Soylent Green" on them for their next product line.

Developer: Oddworld Inhabitants
Release Date: November 17, 1998
Following a year later, Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus continues the story of Abe as he once again tries to save himself and others from becoming consumer products, a bevarage in this case. This game is considered both a sequel as well as a spin-off of the original title.

Developer: Cavedog Entertainment
Release Date: September 27, 1997
Total Annihilation is an RTS game with a cult following. Whereas other games in the genre focused on resource scarcity or micromanagement of units, it focused on resource streaming and large scale battles across bigger maps.
The game's designer, Chris Taylor, would go on to make spiritual sequels in the form of Supreme Commander amd Planetary Annihilation.

Developer: Tom Kidd / Mac Source Ports
Release Date: February 23, 2022
Extractor is an app from Mac Source Ports that extracts files from GOG Windows-based installers. Think of it as a GUI version of innoextract.
Right now, Extractor does exactly two things: lists the files in an installer, and extracts the files from an installer. We hope to expand it in the future but for now it's a simple application.

Developer: Hard Light Productions
Release Date: February 11, 2024
Knossos.NET is a utility that aids in downloading and configuring the FreeSpace 2 Open Source Project, aids in configuring the content from a GOG installer or other location, and can even help with mod management and multiplayer support. Check it out if you want to play FreeSpace 2 with as little hassle as possible.
