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

What does Boxer do?

Boxer plays all the MS-DOS games of your misspent youth, right here on your Mac.

There’s no clots of configuration and baffling DOS commands between you and your fun: just drag-drop your games onto Boxer, and you’ll be playing in minutes.

Boxer takes your CDs, floppies and bootleg game copies and wraps them into app-style gameboxes you just click to play. They’re self-contained so you can back them up or share them with friends. No mess, no fuss.

If your nostalgia demands more, then decorate your games with gorgeous icons and admire your collection from your very own Finder games shelf.

Boxer is powered by DOSBox’s robust DOS emulation, which means it’ll play almost any DOS game you throw at it.

Download Boxer 2.0.0

Download Boxer 4.1 Beta

What’s new in 2.0?

64-bit support!!!

Should run in Catalina and BigSur ;)

What’s new in 4.1?

Apple Silicon Support!!!

(Should run in Ventura)

Full release notes

Visits

FORKED Boxer - By MaddTheSane

This FORKED Boxer version supports Catalina and Big Sur!

Thanks to MaddTheSane, we can continue to enjoy Boxer on newer version of OS X. ALL Credits go to him!

Thanks go to the original author alunbestor, who created the original software and the original DOSBox team!

I just love all this software and want to provide the world with an easy source to a working Boxer app :)

Built using XCode 12.3 (12C33) on OS X 11.0.1 - Requires 10.15 or later

I included another build that I found which has good compatibility too - Main download link for now

UPDATE: Version 4.1 Beta now supports Apple Silicon CPUs!

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

MS-DOS has never looked so good.

Boxer is designed to look, feel and work beautifully: just like everything else you love on your Mac.

That means Boxer fits hand in glove with OS X: you can launch programs and gameboxes straight from Finder, search your collection in Spotlight, add extra drives in DOS just by drag-and-drop.

And if you run into trouble, there’s comprehensive built-in help just a click away.