MacSoft Games is a Minnesota, United States based computer game publisher and porter specializing in porting Microsoft Windows computer games to the Macintosh. Among its releases are Civilization II, Quake, Lode Runner 2, Duke Nukem 3D, Unreal, Age of Empires, Age of Mythology, Rainbow Six, Neverwinter Nights (including Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide and Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark), and Halo. MacSoft is owned by Destineer. It has been suggested that some sections of this article be split into a new article entitled Professional Sports Minnesota . ... A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. ... In computer science, porting is the adaptation of a piece of software so that it will function in a different computing environment to that for which it was originally written. ... Microsoft Windows is a family of operating systems by Microsoft for use on personal computers, although versions of Windows designed for servers, embedded devices, and other platforms also exist. ... Mac OS, which stands for Macintosh Operating System, is a series of graphical user interface-based operating systems developed by Apple Computer for their Macintosh line of computer systems. ... Civilization II , or Sid Meiers Civilization II, is a turn-based game, the sequel to Sid Meiers Civilization. ... Zombies attacking the player. ... Lode Runner 2 was a computer game released in 1998 for Mac OS and Windows. ... Duke Nukem 3D is a first-person shooter developed by 3D Realms and released on January 29, 1996 by Apogee Software, featuring the adventures of Duke Nukem, based on a character that had appeared in earlier platform games by the company: Duke Nukem and Duke Nukem II. // Synopsis Murderous aliens... This article refers to the video game Unreal. ... This article is about the first game in a series. ... Age of Mythology (sometimes abbreviated AoM) is a real-time strategy computer game by Ensemble Studios. ... Rainbow Six is a successful computer and video game series created by author Tom Clancy, based on his novel of the same name. ... Neverwinter Nights (NWN), produced by BioWare and published by Infogrames (now Atari), is a third-person perspective computer role-playing game that is based on third edition Dungeons & Dragons rules (with minor changes). ... Halo: Combat Evolved, or simply Halo, is a video game in the first-person shooter (FPS) genre, created by the Microsoft-owned Bungie Studios. ... Destineer is a computer game developer and publisher, based in Minnesota, United States and founded in 2000 by former Bungie Studios vice-president Peter Tamte. ...

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• MacSoft Games website