I stumbled upon Boxer by sheer happenstance.  I was looking for a picture of the box side (or a flattened box scan) of Worlds of Ultima: Savage Empire (or Ultima: Kyouryuu Teikoku) for the Super Famicom.  I have the cart, and thought maybe I could make up a sleeve for a universal game case for it, but I only have pics of the front and back covers, not the side (if anyone has one, please let me know!!).  While surfing around, I saw a mention in a forum somewhere of playing games in DOSBox, an open source DOS emulator that is quite often used to play DOS games on modern systems.  The forum post mentioned that for Mac users, Boxer was the way to go.

Boxer is a DOS game emulator for Mac that takes all the hassle out of messing with DOSBox settings and drive mounting and so on.  Just drag your DOS game folder or CD onto it.  If the game needs to be installed, Boxer will install it, and leave you with a “gamebox” that you double-click to start the game.  It’s pretty much as simple as that.  As with any program, some old games come with complications, and Boxer lets you tweak as you like.  But in many cases it’s not necessary.  They even have some ready-to-play demos and games available to download in .dmg files, all ready to go.  When I saw Ultima IV and Ultima Underworld in the ready-to-pay group, I knew I’d be hooked.  Plus it works with many of the DOS-bases GOG.com games as well.

If you feel like rockin’ some old skool gaming on your Mac, try out Boxer.  Let me know what you think.

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