Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs

https://f055.net/technology/windows-gog-dos-games-on-m-series-macs/

17•f055•59m ago

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haunter•15m ago

>install DOSBox for Mac

Mind you there are countless DOSBox forks out there and the vanilla original one is probably the least interesting one.

Nowadays the three most popular one would be DOSBox-X, DOSBox Pure, and DOSBox Staging

https://dosbox-x.com/ https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x

https://schelling.itch.io/dosbox-pure https://github.com/schellingb/dosbox-pure-unleashed/

https://www.dosbox-staging.org/ https://github.com/dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging

HelloUsername•12m ago

> there are DOSBox forks, most popular one would be DOSBox-X

Straight from the article:

> there are actively developed alternatives like DOSBox-X

thaumasiotes•9m ago

> Mind you there are countless DOSBox forks out there and the vanilla original one is probably the least interesting one.

What do you want to be "interesting" about dosbox?

nsxwolf•6m ago

The Slirp backend for the NE2000 networking driver is the big one for me.

haunter•5m ago

Read what the others offer

GUI config, load games from zip and image files, controller support, save states, various sound, graphics, and network enhancements etc.

There is more to this than simply being a DOS emulator.

rigonkulous•8m ago

This is awesome, and I can't wait to have the time to set this up and install my GOG library .. but one thing has been bugging me for a long time about my GOG library, and that is: local multiplayer network gaming was awesome then.

So .. is there going to be any chance of getting multiplayer networking setup for some of the GOG's? Has anyone accomplished this in the DOXBox-*'en .app'o-sphere yet?

lastdong•5m ago

My favourite project to run these old games was Boxer (1). Based on dosbox, it creates a runnable self contained disk for each game or set of games / software. It is pretty neat, but I am not sure if it has been maintained recently.

1 boxerapp.com

benoau•4m ago

This is why Rosetta 2's looming retirement sucks.

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