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

What is Boxer?

Boxer plays MS-DOS games on your Mac. It’s based on the robust DOSBox emulator, with a lot of magic sprinkled on top.

Run DOS programs from Finder. Wrap your games into tidy packages that launch like Mac apps. Painlessly install games from CD—then bundle the CD with your game so you don't even need it in the drive.

Don’t struggle with mounts and emulation settings; don’t nurse a greedy games database; don’t bang your head against a DOS prompt; just play your games. Boxer takes away the fuss and leaves the fun.

Get started with Boxer

Download Boxer 0.85
16.6 MB OS X disk image
Universal Binary for OS X 10.4.7 and up (OS X 10.5 recommended)

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What’s new in 0.85?

More reliable behaviour and bugfixes galore.
Doesn’t screw up your Spaces any longer. (It seemed like a good idea at the time…)
Smarter game installation that’s better at figuring out how to prepare games.
Improved game detection and support for more hard-to-please games.
More handy DOS commands to make life on the prompt more bearable.
Clearer dialogs and friendlier choices when you quit a game.
G3 PowerPC support (you poor things.)

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

Nothing to see here.

Boxer has no esoteric configuration panels to pore through, no big fat library interface squatting between you and your fun. It’s the unobtrusive DOS butler that configures and launches your games as discreetly as possible. So here’s some screenshots of them instead.