Kaiser 1.0 (Remastered and Classic)

The first downloadable release of the Kaiser port: the 1990s German strategy game Kaiser (v1.23 by Stefan Maday) running natively on today's macOS and Windows.

Which file?

Download
Kaiser-Remastered-1.0-macOS-arm64.zip	Remastered for macOS 11+ on Apple Silicon
Kaiser-Remastered-1.0-Windows-x64.zip	Remastered for Windows 10/11, 64-bit
Kaiser-Classic-1.0-macOS-arm64.zip	Classic (the faithful port) for macOS
Kaiser-Classic-1.0-Windows-x64.zip	Classic for Windows

• Remastered: freely resizable window, upscaled graphics, scaled dialogs and fonts, an in-game help window, crashes and clear bugs of the original fixed; same rules, savegames compatible.
• Classic: behaves exactly like the original, checked against it by differential tests.

Installing

• macOS: unzip, move the app to Applications. The app is not notarized: on the first start open System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway. Intel Macs are not supported yet.
• Windows: unzip the whole folder and start Kaiser Remastered.exe (keep the Kaiser and docs folders next to it). If SmartScreen warns: More info → Run anyway.

Known limitations

• The Windows builds are cross-compiled on macOS and have not been tested on a real Windows machine yet. Please open an issue if something goes wrong.
• The e-mail game of the original is not ported.
• The game is in German.

Kaiser is © Stefan Maday. The downloads include the original game's kaiser.exe and kaiser.mid, which the port reads its graphics, dialogs and music from.