Boxer is a DOS emulator designed specifically for the Mac. It provides a user-friendly front-end for emulator DOSBox, the source of its name. Boxer supports graphical smoothing, virtual drive importing, customized controls, full-screen mode, pausing, fast-forwarding, and CPU speed adjustment. It also provides support for MT-32 (music) ROMs, although it does not include them.
Importing a game into Boxer is as simple as dragging and dropping the DOS installation or executable folder onto the open application. Following the installation instructions should produce a .boxer file that can be used to immediately open your executable of choice in Boxer's internal DOSBox window. If you have or can find the game icon or box art, include it during the Boxer setup, and you'll build up a beautiful virtual collection of DOS programs in the application's Finder-based library.
If you just can't get enough of the old command line, it's also possible to go directly into DOSBox through Boxer, although the ease-of-use and completeness of the user interface makes your need to use this method all but irrelevant.
v1.3 [Jun 4, 2012]
- Developer-signed for OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion's Gatekeeper.
- Improved configurations for Battlespire, Blood and Alien Incident.
- Fixed The 7th Guest being incorrectly detected as playing MT-32 music when set up for General MIDI.
- Improved mouse-locking to unlock properly when activating Exposé or the Cmd+Tab app switcher, and to prevent locking over the menu or dock when in fullscreen.
- Fixed extra drives appearing in drives list when running a duplicated gamebox.
- Fixed DOS window getting resized incorrectly when there was insufficient screen space to show the window at its minimum size.
