Boxer is a straight-up emulator designed especially for the Mac, which makes it possible to run DOS games without having to do any configuring, installing extra software, or messing around in the Mac Terminal app. With Boxer, you can drag and drop CD-ROMs (or disk images) from the DOS games you'd like to play. One of the easiest and best ways to play PC games on a Mac is to use Nvidia's cloud-based game streaming service for macOS users, GeForce Now. GeForce Now for Mac is available right now across. Make the most of your Mac - install Microsoft Office suites or run Windows. Buy online with fast, free shipping.
What does Boxer do?
Boxer plays all the MS-DOS games of your misspent youth, right here on your Mac.
There’s no clots of configuration and baffling DOS commands between you and your fun: just drag-drop your games onto Boxer, and you’ll be playing in minutes.
Boxer takes your CDs, floppies and bootleg game copies and wraps them into app-style gameboxes you just click to play. They’re self-contained so you can back them up or share them with friends. No mess, no fuss.
If your nostalgia demands more, then decorate your games with gorgeous icons and admire your collection from your very own Finder games shelf.
Boxer is powered by DOSBox’s robust DOS emulation, which means it’ll play almost any DOS game you throw at it.
What’s new in 1.3?
Drag the volume up, then down, then up again with a statusbar volume control!
Save screenshots to the desktop with an easy shortcut!
Zip through boring game intros with the fast-forward key!
Paste text from OS X into any DOS program!
Gameboxes now remember all your drives from last time, so it’s dead easy to use an extra drive for sharing files between games.
Expanded help for installing patches & game expansions and dealing with Windows-only games.
Lots of little UI improvements that you won’t consciously notice but which will make your day that teeny bit happier.
About six gajillion bugfixes.
Run Windows Programs On Mac
Hit the ground playing.
Boxer comes with 4 ready-to-play DOS games to whet your appetite: Commander Keen 4 and demos of Epic Pinball, Ultima Underworld and X-COM: UFO Defense. Bon appetit!
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MS-DOS has never looked so good.
Boxer is designed to look, feel and work beautifully: just like everything else you love on your Mac.
That means Boxer fits hand in glove with OS X: you can launch programs and gameboxes straight from Finder, search your collection in Spotlight, add extra drives in DOS just by drag-and-drop.
And if you run into trouble, there’s comprehensive built-in help just a click away.
On a Mac, you have several options for installing software that allows you to run Windows and Windows applications:
- Run Windows and Windows applications locally:
- To dual-boot between macOS and Windows, use Apple's Boot Camp. This approach provides the most compatibility with Windows software and peripherals, but does not allow you to run Windows and macOS applications at the same time.
- To run Windows in a virtual machine within macOS, use Parallels Desktop, VMware Fusion, or VirtualBox. This method will allow you to run Mac and Windows applications concurrently, though the virtual machine does not support as much Windows functionality as a dual-boot configuration.
- To run Windows programs without having to install Windows itself, use a Windows compatibility layer, such as CrossOver Mac. This option typically offers good functionality for a limited set of Windows applications.
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