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DESCRIPTION

Boxer plays MS-DOS games on your Mac. It’s based on the robust DOSBox emulator, with a lot of magic sprinkled on top.

Run DOS programs from Finder. Wrap your games into elegant packages that launch like a Mac app. Painlessly install games from CD—then bundle the CD with your game so you don't even need it in the drive.

Don’t struggle with mounts and emulation settings; don’t nurse a greedy games database; don’t bang your head against a DOS prompt; just play your games. Boxer takes away the fuss and leaves the fun.

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WHAT'S NEW
New since Boxer 0.85:
  • Based on DOSBox 0.73 for faster, stronger, more assertive emulation.
  • Ostentatious shelf background for newly-minted DOS Games folders.
  • Smarter game installer and lots of game compatibility fixes.
  • Many interface refinements to make Boxer tidier, more helpful and less autocratic.
  • Friendlier messages for DOS commands to make those trips to the DOS prompt bearable.
  • Snow Leopard compatibility.
  • 8 months’ worth of bugfixes.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5 or 10.6.

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Developer:Alun Bestor
Downloads:25,519
  - Version d/l:1,492
Games:Gaming Tools & Utilities
License:Free
Date:30 Aug 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
RATING
*****
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Jul 26 2009
*****

THYX  Just for the record: heard about Ascendancy in facebook, searched for a Mac version – which I would have bought for my iBook back then, and wouldn't work on an Intel MacBook for sure – and only then I realized fully that Dos emulators exist.

Everything works as advertised! (the major annoyance was that it took me some time to just try and find the Right-Click - it's Apple-Click)

Many thanks! Now I just have to limit myself to short games…   
(Version 0.86b)

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Jul 26 2009

THYX  Me? Weird characters?

Oh, that's Unicode. Don't mind, it's from the 21th century… ;-)  
(Version 0.86b)

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Dec 27 2008
*****

PABLO2K  Brilliant. This works painlessly and elegantly.

Take your old DOS games or applications and just drag them into the coverflow viewer and it installs, have very few problems with it.

I donated shortly after playing around with it. Highly recommended.  
(Version 0.85)

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Oct 28 2008
*****

JAZZJOHANNES  Love it cheers!!

Brilliant in all ways, especially the new update!!  
(Version 0.8)

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Oct 26 2008
*****

AYUB  Great application. It made me download some old DOS games (mario, etc.) and they are running well. Keep it up.  
(Version 0.8)

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Jul 18 2008

SICHAN  I really like the way this GUI works but it seems to have a problem running games that require the CD to run. If you drag the game CD to the boxer icon it opens DOSBox with the CD set as the D drive and your chosen folder as the C drive. However, if you then try and run anything it seems to forget that the CD is the D drive and you get a message saying the CD is not there. It even renamed a folder that I already had on the desktop to "D" which I'm pretty sure it shouldn't be able to.

I'd like to add these games all loaded fine when using Petit DOSBox GUI which is far older and not even a Universal binary.  
(Version 0.71)

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Jul 18 2008

ALUN BESTOR  Hi Sichan, I'm sorry to hear about the CD problem you encountered! If you have time, please get in contact with me at the email address on the Boxer website - I'm very keen to fix the bugs you describe and could really use your assistance in reproducing them.  
(Version 0.71)

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Jun 17 2008

AVV3LENATO  Fast and easy to use.

Bye-bye Dapplegrey  
(Version 0.71)

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Jun 6 2008
*****

AANHORN  This is the best version of DOSbox for OS X, hands down.  
(Version 0.71)

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