Okay, so bad form for replying to a thread that I haven't visited in six years, but Daxeria knocked it out of the park. It was indeed Xyphus by Penguin Software for the original Apple Macintosh.

Okay, I wonder if any of you guys can help me figure out what the name of this game was. I played this in the mid '80s on the original Apple Macintosh. It looked similar to Ultima ][: Revenge of the Enchantress (played similar too), but this one had enemies like "Pumas". At some early point in the …

I came across this post hoping to find an old Macintosh game myself. In response to your question: Maybe if you could scan a rough sketch of the interface from memory and post it to Imageshack (or the like) we might be able to get a better idea. Might this have been a *griffin* blocking your path as …