It's been a while since we had any news about Frets of Fire, the Guitar Hero clone for Mac OS X. Early this year, we posted a GlovePie script that let Wii owners (or Wiimote owners, at least) use their Wiimotes with the game. Today, we came across a post at The Unofficial Apple Weblog announcing that the Guitar Hero II X-plorer guitar controller can now be used in Frets of Fire thanks to the Pref360 controller driver.

The whole thing originally came about when TUAW blogger Mat Lu asked Colin Munro, the creator of Pref360, to help him get the X-plorer controller to work with Pref360 and, in turn, Frets of Fire. If you're not up to doing some technical work on Pref360 itself, don't worry. The latest version, 0.05, now has native support for the X-plorer controller.

According to Lu, the Pref360/X-plorer combo "works great with Frets of Fire; just install Pref360 and then go into the Frets of Fire button setup and you should be able to assign the fret and strum buttons (the whammy bar is not yet supported in Frets of Fire)." You can download Pref360 for free from Tattiebogle.net.