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Norizumi Moro-Oka has created some alternate desktop themes for users of the Macintosh program Kaleidoscope, including one in a War of the Worlds theme called Marsian which features the aliens as depicted in the 1953 movie The War of the Worlds, heavy on the three-ness, RGB eyes, and alien hands.

A new scheme by the same author has been recently (1998/02/04) released called Be The Marsian which is The Marsian scheme in Be style (window title bars are just tabs). It has a slight problem in that there are no borders the right or bottom of the window to drag it by, endemic to all BeOS-style windows in Kaleidoscope currently.

Kaleidoscope only runs on Macintosh computers.

The Multiple Arcade Machine emulator (MAME), starting with version 0.35b12 ("Combat School"), now supports the Cinematronics arcade game War of the Worlds. thereby making MacMAME the first emulator capable of emulating this rare arcade game on a Macintosh, as well as allowing for its emulation under Unix and on Amigas. The support on so many platforms is possible because the source code for the this emulator is freely-available, portable C code.

Here are the official sites for the various builds of MAME. Note that not all builds are perfectly in sync. It takes time to port each new version.

• The official Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator (MAME) page -- DOS
• MAME32 home page -- Windows 95
• MacMAME.org -- Power Macintosh
• Triumph Software: MAME -- Amiga: 68060 and PowerUP
• ARM MAME -- RISC OS

Version 0.36 has color support, but warns that the colors are not completely accurate. It does not appear to have the option to play in black and white as was the arcade releases. MAME is open source.