You can resize and zoom Boxer's window while you play, and toggle between rendering styles (HQx etc.) on the fly. To this end, Boxer also auto-mounts any CDs or floppies you insert while playing, and removes them from DOS once they're ejected. The inspector also lets you add and eject DOS drives by drag-and-drop, at any time while you're playing a game: this lets you easily hot-swap CDs and floppies for multi-disc games.
If needed, you can tweak common emulation settings (like CPU speed, emulation optimizations and mouse behaviour) directly while you play, using Boxer's inspector window. It automatically sets up drives appropriately it also pre-configures hundreds of games that need custom emulation settings, with more automatic configurations added in each new version. Boxer guides you through the game's installer if needed, then packages the game up into a gamebox (and rips its CD to an image, if appropriate).īoxer aims to make DOS games require zero configuration and zero knowledge of the emulator's esoteric inner workings. You can create gameboxes by drag-and-dropping game CDs, floppies, disc images or folders onto Boxer's game import window. They're path-independent, which means they can be stored wherever you like, moved around, backed up easily, and shared with friends: without needing to reconfigure anything inside the gamebox. Each gamebox is a self-contained DOS ecosystem that contains the game and everything it needs to run: drive folders and images, configuration settings, documentation etc. If you don't have a Mac or don't feel like trying it out, then here's an exhaustive answer I gave to a similar question in a previous thread about Boxer ( ):īoxer uses DOSBox as its emulation core, but it has a completely redesigned UI and workflow for installing and playing games.īoxer bundles DOS games into gameboxes, a self-contained app-like package format that appears as a single file to OSX and can be launched by double-clicking.
#BOXER FOR MAC OS DOWNLOAD#
If you have a Mac, just download Boxer and give it a spin: the difference between Boxer and DOSBox will be immediately apparent. Open -a DOSBox -args -conf path/to/your-config.(Disclosure: I'm the developer of Boxer.)īoxer does a whole lot more than wrap up games. Then you can run DOSBox with your config by calling following command from terminal: It can hold specific configuration options and even commands for invoking game in the AUTOEXEC section. You can create configuration file for individual games. You can also add MOUNT commands to the AUTOEXEC section at the bottom of the configuration files, so that you do not have to type them in every time you start DOSBox. The exact folder name in the Finder may vary, depending on the language you use for OS X.īy editing this file, you can set the system settings and initialization values that define your emulated environment. Now type this command to navigate to your newly mounted driveĪfter you first run DOSBox, go to the ~/Library/Preferences/ folder and open the newly created file DOSBox 0.74 Preferences.
Assuming you placed it inside your home folder you should be able to run this command to MOUNT the folder.ĭrive C is mounted as local directory /Users//DOSGAMES/ By default no drives are mounted (except the DOSBox default Z:) From here you need to mount your DOSGAMES folder. This will cause the DOSBox window to appear. Remember that while these files are buried deep in the file system with paths like ~/DOSGAMES/TESTDRV, inside DOSBox they appear as though they reside in the root of their mounted drive letter, so the above example in DOSBox would be located at C:\TESTDRV (assuming that ~/DOSGAMES was mounted as C:).ĭouble click on the DOSBox icon in Finder to launch DOSBox for the first time. Inside this folder we can place all of the programs that we want to be available in our emulated DOS environment. In This example we will call our folder DOSGAMES. The most convenient location for this folder would be your home folder (which can be referenced as ~).
Now you need to create a folder to MOUNT as your C: drive and hold your games. Move this folder into your Applications folder.
#BOXER FOR MAC OS ZIP FILE#
ZIP file and copy the contents into a folder like DOSBox. The 0.74 release is compiled as a Universal Binary, and will run on PowerPC and Intel based Macs.
#BOXER FOR MAC OS MAC OSX#
This guide will use the 0.74 Mac OSX version which is available for download.
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