QuickTime's MIDI playback engine is used for most of the in-game music which relied on a Soundblaster card with MIDI capabilities. Need for Speed, Warcraft (original), Duke Nukem (2D), Rise of the Triad, Jazz the JackRabbit, Command and Conquer, etc. DOS-only games run perfectly on older Mac hardware. I believe there is a download for version 1.1 on the Mac Repository, which was an update to support Win98SE and OS9. There are networking capabilities via Open Transport so it's possible to get online. It runs really smooth on my Sawtooth G4 under Mac OS 8.6 (or OS9). If you feel like traveling back in time, it's worth giving it a go. Windows 95 with MS Office was quite usable even on that PowerPC 601 hardware. EDIT: With support back to System 7.1.2 for minimum Mac OS overhead. RealPC shipped with MS-DOS and was the fastest x86 emulator back when a Power Macintosh 7100/66 was my main machine (Mac OS 8.1). I was an early adopter of RealPC, which was from Insignia, prior to SoftWindows (later purchased by FWB).
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