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Doesn't iTunes come pre-installed on both MacOS and iOS?

This is tangential, but OS 8.6 (ca. 1998) is the last MacOS version I recall that lacked iTunes out of the box, because iTunes and iPods (separately came out in 2001) did not exist yet. The date for iTunes coincides with OS 9.1's January release.

GP mentioned Winamp. Mac users like I used to be had just Quicktime, and independent players were almost not sought for... "MacAmp" was garbage... I am disgusted to have just learned that this ported namesake was actually made by Nullsoft people. It was renamed Macast later to avoid brand polution that would tarnish their Windows version.

The whole reason for Winamp's mainstream success was nonexistent on the Mac IIRC: SKINS! for the not-so-mainstream, it was its format plugins; PC Plugins that were never Mac-ready, though. This means that gamers like me who enjoy alternative audio formats had a windows-only fix. You had to wait for individual developers* to randomly take a liking to both the MacOS, also to reverse engineering, then also to the one format you needed emulated, like .NSF. If your stuff was only available in another sound emulation format, you were out of luck. Finally, the devs had the hurdle of being forced to build a GUI for it. Considering that mainstream Windows and Linux geeks were not really into MacOS till years after 10.x came out, and that they tended to rely on toolkits that were not Mac-ready in those dark days of the late nineties, and that there was no command line to wire up a quick and dirty a sound-only solution with command line switches, things were pretty bleak.

I'm going to give Winamp a whirl on this PC now. I've been playing plain old Overclocked MP3s for ages, and had forgotten all about the skins for years. I probably have the skin files I loved somewhere in my decade-old backups.

* I think this developer I linked actually was Mac-only and ported to Windows about a decade later. Probably thanks to MacOS-X's newly cross-platform tools like GCC.

Yay for chiptunes!
Too bad the site seems to use Java. I wanted to take a quick listen.

I never played much C64, so my own interests once I found computer playback tools were NES and SNES related.

It is true that it turns my real life friends off, so at some point near 2000 I turned to ocremix to get orchestrated remixes instead. But for the pure chiptune sound files in SMC and NSF format I still have from last decade's games, I recommend Winamp plugins, or standalone Nosefart, and Meridian player (it had a fake stereo for nonstereo 8bit games). For mac users, Audio overload from Banister.

Just 2 months ago I found that there's Playstation tunes out there, making the Chrono Cross and FF7 tracks finally something I could export to MP3 to best my older midi tracks. Today I was watching a playthrough of FinalFantasy XIII-2 and noticed most tracks in it now have vocals / actual lyrics. In a generation or two of consoles XBOX 720 and above there will probably be very little left in terms of that nice, cold triangle / square wave goodness.

MAME OS X [sourceforge.net]. Dave Dribin can no longer work on this, now that he works for Apple. The forum for discussing MAME OS X is: http://forums.bannister.org/ [bannister.org]

Why not? Doesn't Apple like when their employees create software for their software?

MAME OS X. Dave Dribin can no longer work on this, now that he works for Apple. The forum for discussing MAME OS X is: http://forums.bannister.org/

SheepShaver. When Apple dropped support for the Classic Environment, this became our only practical link to the fabulous apps of our youth (or our parents' youth, if you're a young pup).

Neither Mednafen, nor sdlmess will colorize a non-Super Gameboy Game.

MESS does now.

Mac and Linux users can try Audio Overload (also runs on Windows) to play over 32 different console audio file formats, including NSF. The software exports to WAV. So conversion to MP3 is trivial.

Mac and Linux users can try Audio Overload (also runs on Windows) to play over 32 different console audio file formats, including NSF. The software exports to WAV. So conversion to MP3 is trivial.

This site has a few goodies to try out.

I use vMac whenever I want to run Dungeon of Doom. I got hooked on that game when I got my first Mac. It is still one of my favorite games of all time.

Like this person, I am a MacOS user with access to Virtual PC, but when it comes to emulating older MacOS to run old freeware/games and code that OSX and 9 have "broken," I'm a bit at a loss. Don't get me wrong, he has a great documentation and his tests are encouraging to all of us mac users needing Windows and x86 support. I would like to see someone do this kinda thing with native MacOS emulation as well.

Since he is an APPLE powerbook user, I was hoping for more Mac systems on his list. He DID mention DOS 1 and Windows 1 with detail for five+ sequels each, which is a bit overkill for most people.

The Emulation.net site deals with Mac emulation for us. If you want a few more mac options, you need a link to vMac . Maybe someone here can go ahead and do this, and post a story on slashdot with their findings. My mac doesn't have enough room for storing CD images of emulated Operating Systems, and unlike him, I don't have resources to find system software :-| . Sometimes even hardware images are needed for Mac emulators, but I think this is only req'ed for PC users

Good luck!

Audio Overload

Works with Classic and Mac OS X, it also plays all kinds of game music from C64 to N64 :)

erm... there are a few GBA emulators. Go to Http://emultaion.net/gba/ to find:

I have tried the first to and VBA runs better for me, but you'lll have to try them yourself I suppose.

In a similar genre, I liked Jewels of the Oracle. It's still available.