In the early 1990s, I had written MacAssist, a radio live assist system while I was a student and Engineering Director at The Rochester Institute of Technology's college radio station WITR. Initially, I used AudioRack as a file player running alongside the existing automation system at KURA to do my weekly show. Radio software for mac. While AudioRack has no code in common with MacAssist, it did serve as an early 'personal experiment' in radio software, so it deserves mention in the evolution of AudioRack.

The 25 best Mac games you can get right now. UPDATED: Load up your Mac with the latest and greatest games. By Andrew Hayward. Follow @ahaywa. Here are 25 of the best games you can grab right now for your Mac. Additional words by Chris Rowlands. Portal 2 (£15). Mar 20, 2013  OS X Any good strategy games for Mac? Discussion in 'Mac and PC Games' started by Elektrikz, Mar 12, 2013. Including a good number of titles that relied on Rosetta support. Having been left with hundreds of pounds worth of Mac-native games that no longer worked on my new Lion Mac, I decided I'd had enough of Apple in this one respect.

If there’s one good thing about the relative scarcity of games on the Mac, it’s that we often get the best games when we do get them. Sure, you’ll find a few stinkers, but the fact remains that many developers don’t even consider porting their creations—and they’re almost always ports—over to Apple’s desktop system unless they think they have a chance of surviving between brushed aluminum and a Retina display. In fact, there are enough quality games on Mac that I could easily rattle out a list with 30 more, but ain’t nobody got time for that. For our money (and yours), these are the best.

Sounds like a cynical European’s attempt to get Americans interested in Europe’s favorite pastime. “It’s soccerwith muscle cars in a caged arena!” And yes, that’s essentially Rocket League in a nutshell. But, oh, it’s so worth it. Drawer store mesh works. It’s hard to pinpoint what makes the game so irresistible: Is it the speedy matches, awarding thrills to the victors and quick chances for redemption for the losers?

Is it the colorful cars themselves, which range from Mario-themed roadsters to the Batmobile? Or is it the gameplay itself, which sends your car careening through the air and up walls to better bump a ball into a distant goal? I’m still not sure. Join me as I play a few dozen more rounds to figure it out.

There’s a pretty good chance you’ve heard of. It’s about as popular as air in younger circles, and there’s an addictive quality about it that ensnares even older players.

The basic concept of the acclaimed (and free) Battle Royale mode? You’re tossed out of a floating bus along with 99 other players, and then you land on an island and scrounge for weapons and supplies for defenses so you can kill everyone else until you’re the last person standing. Yeah, it’s kind of brutal, but it delivers an undeniable thrill of victory, and its Pixar-like aesthetic does a lot to soften the edge. For that matter, its matches last only a handful of minutes and actually playing it costs nothing. Developer Epic Games won’t complain if you drop some cash on cosmetic items, though. We may not have The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim on Mac—one of the most popular (and ported) RPGs of all time—but by gosh, we have.

It’s a sprawling MMORPG that’s set in Skyrim’s same universe and features many of the same locations—yes, including Skyrim—and it’s remarkable among modern MMORPGs for its freedom. Unlike, say, World of Warcraft (which is still a fine alternative after all these years), you’re not forced to quest through zones in a particular orde. Instead, ESO adjusts itself to your level. If you have the proper expansion, you can hop into brand-new content with everyone else right from the start. It’s respectful of your time, too, as far as MMOs go, as it lets you drop in and out at will. ESO also requires no subscription past the initial purchase (although there's a cash shop with loot boxes), and you can simply enjoy the entertaining quests and never group with another player if you so wish. Don’t like puzzles?

Stay far away from. At its core, it’s about nothing so much as walking around an island with 11 widely varying regions and solving mazes that pop up on screens powered by cords that snake mysteriously through ruins and forests. And yet, much as in Myst that inspired it, there are greater mysteries to unravel lurking in the shadows beyond, countered both through intellectual dexterity and revisiting previous areas. It’s probably the quietest game on this list, but it’s also one of the best. Few developers commit to porting games to Mac quite as enthusiastically as Blizzard Entertainment, which makes the absence of its smash hit Overwatch on the platform all the more disappointing. But that’s all right, because we have.

Hearthstone is basically Magic: The Gathering for folks in a hurry, as it scraps Magic’s labyrinthine rules in favorite of relatively intuitive cards and decks styled after heroes from Blizzard’s popular Warcraft universe. Nor is it just a Mac game. Part of the beauty of Hearthstone is that it plays just as well with the same account from your iPhone or iPad as on a Mac, thus freeing you to take your card battles from your desk at home to the city bus. You’ll probably have to spend some cash on some card packs in order to get the most out of it—which has always been the trap of collectible card games, be they real or virtual—but as its enduring popularity and expansion packs show, millions of people think it’s more than worth it. May be the perfect game. It’s a puzzler at heart, but it injects those puzzles—which involve the best placement of the titular portals, which you create with a gun—into a masterful concoction of science fiction, memorable characters, and even a catchy song.