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.
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)
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)
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)