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.
Current releaseIncludes the original sample demos. If macOS blocks the first launch, use Open Anyway to approve it once.
Boxer 4.1 BetaApple Silicon: macOS 11+ · Intel: 10.14.4+*
Boxer 2.0.0Intel: OS X 10.10–macOS 10.14 best fit*
*Declared minimums and best-fit generations, not hardware guarantees. The 2020 Intel build remains in our historical archive.
The Mac DOS gamebox we love, tuned up for the next round.
We forked MaddTheSane's modern Boxer to keep it moving. Our 4.2.0 beta keeps your familiar Boxer app identity and adds a universal Intel and Apple Silicon build, a gamebox reopening fix, the original demos, updated credits, and a clearer bug-report path. See what's new and what still needs testing.
I just love all this software and want to provide the world with an easy source to a working Boxer app :)
Thanks to original creator Alun Bestor, MaddTheSane, and the DOSBox and DOSBox Staging teams. Follow our source or report a bug.
Start with the original Boxer demos, then add your own legally obtained DOS software and turn it into click-to-play gameboxes. The cover art here celebrates those first games.
Explore the original demos
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.
Drag, drop and go
A game shelf to call your own
Comprehensive built-in help
Another World
Comanche: Maximum Overkill
King’s Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder
Star Wars: Dark Forces
Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny
Wing Commander Privateer
Design by 40watt - Modded by Gr33k