Boxer
The DOS game emulator that's fit for your Mac. (by MaddTheSane)
jsemu
A list of emulators written in the JavaScript programming language (by fcambus)
| Boxer | jsemu | |
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| 20 | 7 | |
| 402 | 1,742 | |
| - | - | |
| 7.9 | 4.4 | |
| 3 months ago | 7 months ago | |
| Objective-C | ||
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | - |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Boxer
Posts with mentions or reviews of Boxer.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-19.
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VCMI: Open-Source Engine for Heroes of Might and Magic III
Other comments are talking about how it's not in scope, which is unfortunate for this case, but since you loved the app, I poked around and found a quite active fork! Unsure how functional it is, but it seems to have gotten quite a bit of love: https://github.com/MaddTheSane/Boxer
- Is there anyway to port old abandonware Windows 95/98 game to Apple Silicon?
- Help playing an old DOS game
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Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
no. but check out boxer.
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86Box – Low level x86 emulator that runs older operating systems and software
For MacOS, Boxer (http://boxerapp.com/) is great. It creates executables (distributable with zero dependencies) that include dosbox and the app to run - the creation is super easy too. Dosbox footprint is very small. It’s just amazing to double click and start the app or game without having to worry about setting up dosbox.
- Painless DOS Gaming on M1
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Emulators with Apple Silicon support.
Dosbox with Boxer frontend: https://github.com/MaddTheSane/Boxer/releases/tag/AS-beta-3
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Any ideas on playing fallout 1-2 without parallels etc. ?
Here's the port: https://github.com/MaddTheSane/Boxer
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Fallout 1/2 on Macbook Pro
You can play the DOS version of Fallout 1 using DOSBox. I recommend Boxer which makes things much easier.
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Keeping entertained during long Christmas airport delays
Boxer.
jsemu
Posts with mentions or reviews of jsemu.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-02.
- Emulators Written in JavaScript
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i just wrote a simple bash script to turn my game rom collection into a static webpage. it's far from perfect but for sure better than scrolling trough folders when looking for something to play!
There are numerous emulators written in Javascript. https://github.com/fcambus/jsemu
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Real hidden gems when it comes to self hosting
List of browser-based emulators
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Emulators with Apple Silicon support.
https://github.com/fcambus/jsemu There are always Javascript based emulators but i've never looked that much into them to be honest.
- N64 Wasm: A modern web based N64 emulator
- Hey guys I found this cool website but I wanna know if it’s safe first can someone find out and tell me https://dos.zone/
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A minimal and beginner friendly 6502 Emulator written in plain C using ncurses for graphics.
I do recall doing a search for an 8051 cpu emulator a while back. I did encounter pages like this and this. The latter mostly deals with JavaScript (which is less useful in my opinion) but this project could be a very good addition to these kinds of collections. Both lists seem to be quite well maintained.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Boxer and jsemu you can also consider the following projects:
WinBox-for-86Box
ares - ares is a cross-platform, open source, multi-system emulator, focusing on accuracy and preservation.
pcem - PCem
awesome-emulators-simulators - A curated list of software emulators and simulators of PCs, home computers, mainframes, consoles, robots and much more...
pcsx2 - PCSX2 - The Playstation 2 Emulator
libreddit - Private front-end for Reddit
scummvm - ScummVM main repository
OpenEmu - 🕹 Retro video game emulation for macOS
flycast - Flycast is a multiplatform Sega Dreamcast, Naomi, Naomi 2 and Atomiswave emulator
vrEmuLcd - Character LCD emulator library (C99 engine, web front-end).