I suspect Ill need to run an emulator but the emulators Ive found so far require a ROM from the actual Mac, which I dont have.

Here are a couple to get you started: MacMegasite and The Apple Blog.

Best of luck. posted by ardgedee at 3:36 PM on December 13, 2006.

I hope this thread finds you a solution, cause Id love to play that again.

Its a game I first encountered on a childhood friends old black-and-white Macintosh.

In any case, it isnt really anything to write home about; its a fundamentally basic maze game with some rudimentary encounters - use bullwhips and nets to non-violently restrain hostile creatures - and resource management - moving slowly consumes more of your rations and lantern oil, but moving too fast puts you at risk of waking sleeping animals and blundering into traps Dangerous Mummies also stalk the pyramid, causing death and decay on touch.

The aim of the game is to locate the titular Scarab, as well as Ras Staff and Crown, before reaching the exit and making your escape.

I designed sequel after sequel to the game, drawn with a Paper Mate biro on A4 printing paper, taking inspiration from the other formative games of my youth; later Scarab of Ra sequels I contrived borrowed elements of Kemcos Garfield Game Boy game, Oceans Addams Family SNES game and eventually Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow.

I never owned a Mac computer, but a few of my friends did and its through them I was able to discover now-seemingly-unplayable shareware obscurities like Happy Weed (a drug-themed Pac-Man clone) Barney Carnage (slaughter droves of Barney the Dinosaur clones), Snavely (a two-player Snake -esque game in which you and a friend repeatedly make love to one another to produce eggs), Mortal Pongbat (a ludicrously fun Pong game in which you can fire lasers at the opponents bat to make holes in it) and Quest of Yipe (a primitive Ultima-like that nonetheless consumed hours of our collective lives).

Certainly some of the classics from this era were also available on PC Abuse, Monkey Island, Lemmings etc - but by and large, this seemingly hobbyist selection of games has been lost to me.

But there I was, in the late 90s, delighted to be playing a monochromatic dungeon crawler again.

Because sometimes it doesnt matter how good or bad a game is, only that you played it at the right time.

Near as I could tell, theres no DosBox equivalent for old Macintosh software.

Mac Scarab Of Ra Emulator