Boxer: The DOS game emulator that’s fit for your Mac.

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.

Download Boxer 1.4.0
2016-02-16, 19.4 MB
for OS X 10.6 and up

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.

Full release notes

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!

More game demos

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.