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[doh123]

New Version 1.0 (DOSbox 0.73) released 12:15 AM GMT on July 4nd, 2009

New in this version (1.0)
• Initial Release
• See readme.pdf for more information

this is a wrapper designed to help you make a DOS game port to OSX using DOSbox.

Its designed to make a full self contained .app package that can just double click and run DOS games like its a normal Mac app.

It has a menu system to help you getting your game installed and working, then once done you can disable the menu so running the app just launches the game.

This is my first release version, please see the readme.pdf with it for direction on how to use it

Link to 1.0 version is here

Online Check - Status:

how do i download files from linksave.in?

how do i post download links in the forum?

BUGS
for awhile the version i had for download I had compile options set wrong and it was compiled as Intel only.... I have fixed this and the current download is a UB.... sorry.

FUTURE PLANS
• build a better version as a UB with support back to old versions of OSX.
• needs a better GUI, and a way to swap out DosBox versions (which can be done manually now)
• if anyone wants to work on this... let me know, spending most all my time on Wineskin.

[djblastyfone]

this is cool. All we need now is a stripped-down version of parallels in a .app to run games that way!

[doh123]

djblastyfone said:

this is cool. All we need now is a stripped-down version of parallels in a .app to run games that way!

VMware runs better... well.. I dont know on the release version, but the future testing versions are much better than parallels...

but Dosbox is free, VMware and Parallels is not...  Its possible to make a VMware virtual appliance that is a game... but it would require anyone who used it to have a Windows license and a VMware license... plus its not neary as good as Wine.  Dosbox only runs good because all the old DOS games are not very demanding.

[alvoc]

Thanks a lot doh' i have lot of DOS game to port :wink:

[HcNguyen111]

Thnx, just what i needed to play that old Lion King Game I haven't played since I was like 5.

[penyuan]

Cool! I wonder if you could get Windows 3.11 to run in this..... :?:

[slacker]

dont tempt me ill try it

[penyuan]

Just got Indiana Jones and his Desktop Adventures running under Windows 3.11 with this! Will post it soon. Thanks!

[thedoc]

Crashes on 10.4.11 Tiger - oh well - i'll just stick with the old one then...

are there any performance improvements with this particular wrapper?

cheers
thedoctor45

[djblastyfone]

penyuan, I am working on it, just a couple bugs to iron out :)

[KornyAlex]

Thanks

[Zonex]

Best dos game wrapper

[MiKHEILL]

Brilliant! Can't wait to load up MDK and Blood

[brainpoo]

Thanks for this!!!!  many adventures await.

[yoshinatsu]

I've been using Boxer all along, it's free, it's easy, it's UB, and it's the best Dosbox solution on OS X, in my humble opinion.
The newest alpha even has HQx smoothing.

I only needed this wrapper today, when I tried porting and running Dungeon Keeper.
I'm sure there will be a way to play it on Boxer, but I just couldn't find it (for now).

EDIT:
Got it running on Boxer, heh.

[doh123]

I just made this to be ultra simple, pretty much just like using Dosbox manually.  Boxer seems to be heavily modified.

You can change out the Dosbox executable in this to different versions of Dosbox if needed.  I have one game that wouldn't work right with Dosbox 0.73, but I dropped in the executable to Doxbox 0.72 and it worked great.

[waves]

OSXDosbox Wrapper trumps Boxer - IMO.

Question for you though Doh - as I always wondered:

What is the minimum requirements for this

OS 10.xx and above Intel / PPC? - ie any version of OS X?

Cheers.

[doh123]

waves said:

OSXDosbox Wrapper trumps Boxer - IMO.

Question for you though Doh - as I always wondered:

What is the minimum requirements for this

OS 10.xx and above Intel / PPC? - ie any version of OS X?

Cheers.

I don't have a clue really.... made it a long time ago... and haven't really touched it since. Its Applescript Studio.. and the DOSbox in it is a UB... I think its 10.3 PPC or later, but it might be 10.4 or even 10.5 for all I know... was back when i first started doing any programming on a Mac so I didn't know much about how to make it compatible with stuff at the time.

I've never used Boxer but I'm sure from what I've seen it does a lot more... this is bare minimums.

[TommyGun]

Any update on this wrapper? Would love it. :-)
(DOSBox 0.74 is out)

[doh123]

TommyGun said:

Any update on this wrapper? Would love it. :-)
(DOSBox 0.74 is out)

there is a DosBox program in Contents/MacOS

You should be able to take a DosBox.app Mac version and take the DosBox program out of its Contents/MacOS folder and replace it in this wrapper... I did this on a port before to go back to 0.72 to fix a regression problem.  dropping in 0.74 should work fine... it just has 0.73 in it already.

[Honorenza]

Thanks for this one, i hope I'll be able to use it (I'm newb...).

Cheers HB.

Edit : Someone can Re-up please, thanks.

[TommyGun]

Thanks for your answer doh123 but im not able to download your wrapper from the 1st post in this thread, link is down or missing. Can you reupload? :-)

[doh123]

weird.. somehow the file got deleted on Mediafire... not sure how... I'll find a copy of it and upload it again.

EDIT:  made a linksave download to it in the first post that should be working.

[Honorenza]

Hi Doh ! Where can I find your 'readme.pdf' ? it's not in your archive.

Thanks.

[doh123]

Honorbrachios said:

Hi Doh ! Where can I find your 'readme.pdf' ? it's not in your archive.

Thanks.

no idea.. I guess it was in the original zip, which got corrupted and missing somehow and I had to re-upload.  since its been a few years, I don't have it anymore, or remember what was in it, but I think it was pretty short.