Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs

Post by simgoh » Mon, Jun 01, 2026, 9:33 PM UTC

grobibi wrote: post #47

giobox wrote: post #28

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Boxer was wonderful in its day, I think it also became the basis of the official GOG Mac DOS game releases for a while too: > https://www.gog.com/forum/general_archive/mac_dos_game_editi... I've hoped for years someone would pickup the source and get it going again, it's essentially abandonware right now, no changes in nine years. The website is like a time machine back to the peak skeuomorphic mac app era. It still…

Check out boxer-plus https://github.com/Solid7s/Boxer-Plus

Post by Caracas288 » Mon, Jun 01, 2026, 9:39 PM UTC

GeekyBear wrote: post #45

Caracas288 wrote: post #37

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Is there an actual reason for it, apart from Apple hurrying devs along? For the consumer, the benefits of backwards compatibility are obvious, but it’s sad that companies don’t see it as a selling point. Well, we wouldn’t want anyone using their perfectly functional copy of Photoshop CS6 would we…

The Apple Silicon dev kit shipped in 2019 and the cutoff date is 2028, so it's a pretty mild form of hurry. If you want to continue to run older software, do what you would do in Windows 11 and spin up VM with an older version of the OS. I keep a Windows 2000 VM with no network access around just to occasionally play Heroes of Might and Magic 3.

Post by tmtvl » Mon, Jun 01, 2026, 9:54 PM UTC

CodesInChaos wrote: post #61

nihilismislove wrote: post #12

Heroic Launcher makes it even simpler, also for non-DOS Windows games (both very old and newer) - https://heroicgameslauncher.com/

How so? I don't think heroic can install a native DOSBox when the game ships a windows DOSBox. Or was that added recently?

Post by benoau » Mon, Jun 01, 2026, 10:58 PM UTC

iknowstuff wrote: post #68

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Apple is dogmatically anti games, they only spare bare minimum of effort to support videogames as an necessary evil. It's some Jobs' teaching thing.

gaming apps account for approximately 70% of all App Store revenue.

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jun 01, 2026, 11:38 PM UTC

grobibi wrote: post #46

This seems like a good place to mention boxer for macos. Sadly discontinued in 2016 https://boxerapp.com/ which was then continued via boxer-plus which adds apple silicon support https://github.com/Solid7s/Boxer-Plus edit: I think it has apple silicon support. I am getting mized messages when I look it up.