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If you’ve spent your childhood playing DOS games on your old machines, you must be missing them now as they are not as popular as they once were. And with their popularity fading away, it has also become hard to find machines that you can play these games on. Although there’s been a drastic change in the gaming world, those games can still be played on newer machines, such as your Mac. So, if you have a Mac and want to know how you can make those DOS games run on it, here’s how:

The app that makes this happen is called Boxer. It’s a Mac application that works just like any other app on your machine and allows you to load and play those aged DOS games. What’s so great about this app is it costs nothing. It’s absolutely free for download.

Getting Started with Boxer for Mac

Head to the Boxer website and download the app. Once downloaded, double-click on the downloaded zip file to extract it. Drag and drop the app file onto the Applications folder located in the Finder. Once it’s there, you should be able see it in your Launchpad, just like any other app.

Open Launchpad and click on Boxer to launch it. The welcome screen shows you what you can do with the app. Since the purpose of the app is to allow you to play DOS games, the options that you find there will revolve around this. As you’re just starting out with the app, click on the “Browse your games” option to see what games it has come preloaded with.

On the screen that follows, you should be able to see some games that you can play right away. Just double click on any game, Underworld Demo for example, and it should launch.

Here is where the actual game play begins. Just use the keys on your keyboard to move things around in the game. To lock your mouse inside the game, just single click in the emulator window and your cursor will be locked in there.

That was about playing the games that came preloaded with the app. You might wonder how you can add other games into this app. Well, it’s really easy to do so.

Adding a New DOS Game

Launch the Boxer app from your Launchpad. When it launches, click on the “Import a new game” option on the welcome screen.

It will then show you a window where you can drag and drop your DOS Games. If you’ve already downloaded a game that you wish to play, just drop its folder onto this window and it will be automatically imported. You can find some free DOS games on websites like DOS Games Archive.

On the next screen, choose the game installer and click on “Launch installer.” In most cases, the installer will be “setup.exe” file. Then, follow the on-screen instructions, and you will be good to go.

You should then be able to play your imported game right on your Mac. Cheers!

Conclusion

Although the DOS games aren’t much popular today, they’re still worth playing as they remind us of our childhood (we all want to be a kid once again!). Let us know which one is your favorite DOS game and if you liked playing it with Boxer after so many years!

If you’re looking for old Mac software, there are a number of sites on the interwebs that are worth checking out:

Macintosh Garden– great site for old Mac games, system software and abandoned applications
Rescue My Classic Mac – old Macintosh boot floppies and applications available for purchase
Macintosh Repository – a sanctuary for old software of the classic Mac OS era
Mac GUI – customize your Mac’s look and feel with Themes, Desktops, Icons, Widgets, etc.
Mac OS 9 Lives – tips and software for running the Classic Mac OS; audio-centric focus
U-Mich Software Archives – large legacy software collection, for Macs and other platforms
Max1zzz’s Classic Mac Server – another vast collection of Mac system and application software
The Gryphel Project – 68k era Mac software and home of the Mini VMac Mac Plus emulator
E-Maculation – dedicated to emulation of the classic Macintosh computer in OS X, Windows and Linux
OldApps.com – installers for superceded and obsoleted Mac OS X software
PowerPC Software Archive– links to the most current PowerPC compatible versions of many programs
The Mac Driver Museum – old hardware drivers for Mac printers, disks, video cards and related items (partial archive)
MacFixer Mac Software Library – a growing compendium of early Mac system, utility and game installers
The Internet Archive – the grand attic of the internet adds software to its collection

Mac OS 9.2.2 for PowerMac G4 MDD– Retail Mac OS 9 installers do not work on the last generation PowerMac G4 MDD models. This is a copy of Mac OS 9.2.2 included on the MDD bundled Software Restore CDs which is able to boot these G4 models into OS 9 (FireWire 400 models only). It can also be used as Classic Mode on any PowerMac running Mac OS X 10.1-10.4.

ProTools 3.4 Free– Pro Tools 3.4 Digital Audio Workstation software was released free of charge by Digidesign in 1997. This is a fully-functional 16-track version of the program which runs on many 68k Nubus Macs and old PCI PowerMacs.

SoundApp – a swiss army knife for old sound files. Play and convert many vintage audio formats with this useful utility.

Classilla and TenFourFox – ports of the current Firefox web browser, optimized for Mac OS 9 (Classilla) and PowerPC Macs running OS X Tiger (TenFourFox). Get online with your vintage Mac!

PrintToPDF– a free utility to create PDF files on classic Macs running System 7 through Mac OS 9. This is a handy way to keep the formatting of old documents you can’t otherwise convert.

The Vintage Mac Museum is a private, working collection of the pre-Intel Apple Macintosh. We provide old Mac file transfer and conversion services, along with research into old Mac technologies for patent prior art searches or academic purposes.