Hi all, first time posting on Mac Garden, but I've been swinging by the site every once in awhile to check out what's new.
There was a program that I used to use to play music from various Macintosh games that used it. A quick Google search says that a lot of Mac games, such as Lode Runner, SimCity 2000, Prince of Persia, Spectre VR, etc used this synthesizer - apparently this synthesizer was named SoundMusicSys.
There was a program that I used to use from ages ago that allowed me to play these tracks using that particular game's built in instruments. I simply pointed the program at the application file (since both the MIDI files and the instruments themselves were stored in the application) and it could play back all the tracks found in the game like as though I'm playing them from the game.
I remember this program having a generic sounding application name - MIDIPlayer or something. I believe it was freely available to download since it simply played back music. Its interface was from the pre Copland Mac OS days, when there were utilities that allowed you to skin your Mac to look like what conceptually would've been Mac OS 8/9.
Anyone remember what this program was called or do they still have it?