Boxer
The DOS game emulator that's fit for your Mac. (by MaddTheSane)
pcem
PCem (by sarah-walker-pcem)
| Boxer | pcem | |
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| 20 | 57 | |
| 402 | 1,436 | |
| - | - | |
| 7.9 | 5.7 | |
| 3 months ago | about 2 months ago | |
| Objective-C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | 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.
pcem
Posts with mentions or reviews of pcem.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-07.
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Virtual Machine for old childhood Rom games
For emulation, you can look into PCem/86Box
- Tein näin itsenäisyyspäiväksi videon, jossa esittelen ja testaan 2000-luvun taitteen suomalaisia freewarepelejä
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Popularity of DOS/4GW made Win95 game compat easier, but with higher stakes
Absolutely check out PCem for a closer to hardware emulation than dosbox, https://pcem-emulator.co.uk/
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Anyone get Sid Meier's SimGolf Working?
One option is to try PCEm https://pcem-emulator.co.uk/ which is a emulator for old computers that runs on Windows and Linux, I actually learned about it via this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9HP9W88Wew of a guy playing Sim Golf on his Windows PC using PCEm, this should be similar on Linux but I'm not sure if the SteamDeck will have enough power but maybe worth a try
- Do they make aftermarket cpu replacement parts ?
- Early 2000s Windows Games On A Modern Pc?
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Is there anyway to port old abandonware Windows 95/98 game to Apple Silicon?
For hardcore mode, compile PCEm - I think brew has most of the dependencies available ... https://pcem-emulator.co.uk/ - have fun!
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Is VirtualBox still really bad with Windows 9x?
You use 86box or PCem which are not virtualizers but hardware emulators so you will need a really fast CPU (especially in single thread). The advantage is that Windows 98 will be running on period appropriate hardware, since all of it is being emulated real-time.
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Intel Explores Transition to 64-Bit-Only X86S Architecture
QEMU [0] emulates many systems, including the 32-bit Intel architecture. For retro gaming specifically I can recommend PCem [1], which also emulates a wide range of sound and graphics cards, from IBM MDA to 3dfx Voodoo 2.
[0] https://www.qemu.org/
[1] https://pcem-emulator.co.uk/
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Help I can't get this 3D modeling program to work
You could try it with PCem
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Boxer and pcem you can also consider the following projects:
WinBox-for-86Box
86Box - Emulator of x86-based machines based on PCem.
pcsx2 - PCSX2 - The Playstation 2 Emulator
em-dosbox - An Emscripten port of DOSBox
scummvm - ScummVM main repository
PCem-ROMs - This is a collection of requiered ROMs files for PCem emulator. RIP PCem 2021
flycast - Flycast is a multiplatform Sega Dreamcast, Naomi, Naomi 2 and Atomiswave emulator
QEMU - Official QEMU mirror. Please see https://www.qemu.org/contribute/ for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are ignored. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website.
ares - ares is a cross-platform, open source, multi-system emulator, focusing on accuracy and preservation.
softgpu - SW and HW accelerated GPU driver for Windows 9x Virtual Machines
vcmi - Open-source engine for Heroes of Might and Magic III
qemu-3dfx - MESA GL/3Dfx Glide pass-through for QEMU