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Ordering Nightfall

International customers for GERMANY, AUSTRIA and SWITZERLAND should contact Application Systems Heidelberg Software GmbH.


International customers for AUSTRALIA and NEW ZEALAND should contact Streetwise Software.



US and Other International customers:

If you would like to order the game through Altor Systems, click here.

If you would like to order via catalog, Nightfall is included in the MacMall Software Buyers Guide edition of the catalog. You can also order online at the MacMall Nightfall Page.

To purchase Nightfall online through Mac-O-Rama, click here. Please note that United Kingdom customers have successfully ordered Nightfall from Mac-O-Rama.

Nightfall is also available at select retail outlets throughout the US.

Game specifications

What does Nightfall give you?

Nightfall will give you a world, filled with mystery, puzzles, and unique ways of playing. A brand new experience! To do this, we have developed leading edge technology. Nightfall is beautifully drawn, and is constantly in motion. We take advantage of advanced 3D techniques, and Nightfall looks awesome in software, or taking advantage of many of the 3D graphics cards you have. The music is haunting and original, and we play it back in high quality 16bit stereo. The sound effects are fully 3D - if you hear a scraping noise to your left, turn to look for the secret passage that just opened. A patent pending user interface allows you to do things in 3D with unprecidented ease. And the art is incredible - hundreds of rich textures in thousands of different colors.

What Macs will run Nightfall?

As you can gather from what Nightfall gives you, it needs some excellent computers to run it. We wanted it to run on as many Macs as possible, so more people could experience the magic of the game, so Nightfall has a sliding range of quality settings, starting at Low, and ending at Amazing! Nightfall can also be run in both thousands or millions of colors. We have been inundated with questions about whether your machines will run the game. From our experience, here are a few estimates of what machines will do for Nightfall.

Nightfall runs excellently on any iMac or iBook.

The minimum requirements for Nightfall are:

  • 100 MHz or faster Power Mac (150MHz and up recommended),

  • 640x480 screen in thousands of colors,

  • 4x CD-ROM,

  • 9 Megs or more of free RAM,

  • 3 Megs hard disk space on your system disk.


The software requires System 7.5.3 minimum, System 8.1 and above are recommended.

We recommend stereo speakers or headphones to render the full quality of the ambient music. It enhances the atmosphere significantly!

What Hardware Cards are Supported by Nightfall?

If you have a recent ATI 3D card, such as the ATI XClaimVR (RagePro or Rage128 based, not RageII), just about any machine faster than a 100MHz will run Nightfall OK in Excellent or Amazing mode. Most iMacs and G3 machines have these chips built in.

What Hardware Cards are not Supported by Nightfall?

Nightfall may run on the Voodoo Banshee, but we cannot guarantee this. Look for updated drivers for your Banshee card to see if it has full support for Apple 2D display calls. Nightfall does not draw in hardware 3D with Voodoo or Voodoo2 cards, but is fine with these cards when using software 3D drawing.

Specific Macs running Nightfall

    Here are some of the Macs we have tested Nightfall on, and what the experience was like on them:

    Performa 6300CD/100, with 24MB RAM, 4x CD, & System 7.6. Ran OK in Low quality thousands of colors in software.

    PowerMac 7200/120, with 24MB RAM & System 7.6. Ran well in Low quality thousands of colors in software, and OK in Good quality thousands of colors.

    PowerMac 7600/132, with 32MB RAM & System 7.6.1. Ran well in Good quality thousands of colors in software, and OK in Excellent quality thousands of colors.

    Performa 6400/200, with 32MB RAM, 256k cache, & System 8.0. Ran OK in Excellent quality thousands of colors in software. Ran very well in Medium quality thousands, and could use the built in 3D chip.

    PowerMac 7300/180, with 32MB RAM & System 8.1 or 8.5. Ran well in Excellent quality thousands of colors in software.

    PowerMac 8500/300, with 64MB RAM & System 8.1. Ran super smooth in Excellent quality thousands of colors in software, and well in Excellent quality millions of colors in software.

    iMac, with 32MB RAM & System 8.1. Ran OK in Amazing quality millions of colors in software. Ran well in Excellent quality thousands of colors. Ran super smooth in Low quality using the built in 3D RageII.

    iMac revision B, with 32MB RAM & System 8.5. Ran OK in Amazing quality millions of colors in software. Ran well in Excellent quality thousands of colors. Ran super smooth in millions Amazing quality, as the rev. B iMac has a RagePro 3D chip built in.

    PowerMac G3/300, with 32MB RAM & System 8.1. Ran well in Amazing quality millions of colors in software, and very well in Excellent quality thousands of colors in software. Using the built in RagePro 3D chip it ran super smooth in Amazing Quality millions of colors!

    The sliding quality scale for Nightfall, in order, is Low, Medium, Fine, Good, Excellent, Amazing.


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