Hi, really great to rediscover the old games.

As you are using DOSBOX for packaging those great old software, is it planned to support Mac version (as DOSBOX exist for it, see boxer for example) ?

This would avoid to run every software under a virtualization layer like vmware fusion on a mac.

Or keep a PC/dual boot just for that.

Regards
Greatcoco

Just a note, Boxer will import and play DOSBox-based GOG games, once you've extracted them on a PC (or within a virtualizer.) Most games will work straight away, though some currently need a little reconfiguration - mostly just changing IRQ5 to IRQ7 in the game's installer. I plan to handle the configurations automatically in future Boxer versions.

Boxer.app is just awesome and I use it to play the gog. Like Greatcoco said it annoys me to boot to my windows vm just to extract the game, too. It would be nice, if you could provide the original game files for easy install into boxer.app.

The "other OS" question has been asked and answered so many times already (you really should search the forums before posting), but basically, the GOG guys are not opposed to supporting Mac or Linux, they just don't currently have the means to do that and do not have a definitive plan to change that in the near future. Many of GOG's games can be run via the previously mentioned methods and the community is great for supporting that. There are a few GOGMixes listing the games known to work with Mac through Boxer and other methods, as well as how-to's for trying to get games to run:

NoanRand's GOGMix
rampancy's GOGMix
PaultheTall's website
GOG Games on OSX: A How-To

That´s GOG´s fault, they doesn´t have the search option on the forums and we´ve been more than 6 months requesting it.
I serarch topics using Google (not allways), but GOG staff can´t pretend that everyone would do the same.

There is a search function, I'm looking at a search button at the top right of the forum page right now. In fact, I used it to find the posts I linked to. It isn't the greatest search function, but it is there and always has been.

Hi Cogadh,

I understand your point about "search before posting" but maybe i'm blind, i did try to search the terms Mac and it returned zero results. After your answer, i was guilty and i tried osx and it returned this post nothing else.

Now you talk about the Gogmix,to be fair i have not yet look what it means...so thanks for the links and thank you to take the time to answer.

Your link are really a good starting point for the mac / boxer users

Regards
Greatcoco

If you don't want to boot in to Windows to extract the game, use a WINE program like Wineskin (free) or Crossover (for-pay, but supports WINE) to run the GOG installer, then simply move the files over to Boxer once they're extracted in the wineskin. You can keep one wineskin for the purposes of installing GOG DosBox games and you don't have to worry about configurations since all you really want to do is to run the GOG installer in it so you can move the installed game files to the Boxer installer. So even if you are not used to using and configuring WINE, it should be pretty easy to use it only for installation.

Might give CrossOver a try again then. I had too many problems trying to get it to run some apps and stuff that I find that just having Parallels 6 with XP works much better. I have heard of DosBox but never really followed up on it.

Well all of the DOS games use DosBox even in Windows - so there is no difference between running DosBox in windows and OS X. OS X has a great DosBox frontend called Boxer(http://boxerapp.com/).

BTW, how is playing games in Parallels? I've tried it but I had trouble getting games running in full screen. Is there something special one needs to do to play games in it? For a lot of older games WINE does work incredibly well - though its compatibility with joysticks is spotty (WINE-Linux is fine, WINE-OSX has spotty support for joysticks). You should give Wineskin or Crossover a shot.

Hi there,

Like many other forum software platforms, the search engine for the software driving the GOG forums doesn't return results for search strings of three characters or less, so searching for "Mac OS X" is going to bring up nothing, even though there have been several threads asking about Mac support. As tejozaszaszas pointed out though, I do have a GOGmix on games I've tested and confirmed to work on Mac OS X, either natively through open source ports, or through Boxer or Wineskin/CrossOver.

With respect to Parallels, I've heard that it's slightly got the edge over VMWare as it's faster, but VMWare is more stable. Actually, I'd prefer to use either Wine/CrossOver or Bootcamp, as running a game through Windows in a VM introduces more overheard that can slow down both your game and the system.

There is some Mac-related info hidden in the forums but it is definitely hard to locate, also one-liners like "use Dosbox" or "use Boxer" aren't all that useful when you're faced with the actual task of installing a game.

Here's an excellent post on installing DOS games on Mac at the Tex Murphy series forum. This tells pretty much everything you need to know about using Boxer.

I would've been a much happier camper if I had found that info stickied somewhere in the froums. Or at least on Boxer's website.

Boxer works great but it's not like you can always drag and drop a game in there and it will just work. You also need the data in the GOG-prepared conf-file.

So far, Neverwinter Nights Diamond and DA2 are working fine. AT one time before something happen to it, DDO was running great too.

DA2 = Dragon Age 2
DDO = Dungeons & Dragons Online