Comments on: Play DOS Games On Your Mac – Boxer

By: Maeve

Maeve — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:45:11 +0000

I have downloaded Boxer, as i want to play Theme Hospital. I have installed it successfully, but it won’t let me open the actual game. It seems like it is about to start up but then it says ‘Theme Hospital has finished’
Any suggestions?

By: Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:35:53 +0000

What’s up?. Thanks a bunch for the blog. I’ve been digging around for info, but i think i’m getting lost!. Yahoo lead me here – good for you i guess! Keep up the good work. I will be coming back in a couple of days to see if there is updated posts.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:43:41 +0000

Thanks Alun for clearing that up. I didn’t realise, probably my fault for not reading your site properly. Good app.

By: GG

GG — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:41:48 +0000

Hey
I’ve been using this for months now and I love it!
I love playing poet games sometimes.

By: Alun Bestor

Alun Bestor — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:38:55 +0000

Hi there, I’m the developer of Boxer. It’s great to see the app getting attention but I thought I’d clarify one thing, to nip some probable responses in the bud:

Boxer is not an emulator itself but an Applescript wrapper for DOSBox: the application that actually emulates the games you play. DOSBox does the heavy lifting, while Boxer handles installing and launching the games, setting them up to run in the emulator, and generally making the experience a whole lot nicer and more Mac-like. (DOSBox was originally written for Windows and Linux, and has not been designed with Macs in mind.)

This distinction between Boxer and DOSBox is completely irrelevant to users of course, which is why Boxer avoids talking about DOSBox as a separate entity – but I didn’t want Boxer to take all the credit for the hard work of emulating these games.