J Arcane
10-27-2008, 12:47 PM
The bestest DOSBox frontend ever (http://boxer.washboardabs.net/) gets to 0.8 today.
# More toys. Boxer 0.8 comes with 4 ready-to-play sample games, rounded out with a set of useful DOS utilities.
# Drag-drop game installation. Drag CDs and game folders onto the new installer droplet to install and package them. Import a game’s CD so you can play the game without it. Increased DOS disk space lets those really big CD games install.
# Smarter friendlier behaviour. Launch Boxer to browse your games folder now, instead of a DOS prompt. Sensible default locations in place of nagging questions. Game packages remember your CPU speed adjustments. Games on read-only drives are copied to ensure they can save their data.
# Better Mac integration. Boxer now automatically supports non-US keyboards, scales the window better for large screens, and makes sure Spaces keyboard shortcuts don’t interfere with games. And if you have Growl, Boxer will show pretty notifications too.
# More power-user features. Hold down Option as you launch a game package to choose a program inside it. Easily start IPX networks. [autoexec] blocks now let you run programs on auto-mounted drives.
# ¿Habla Español? Boxer speaks Finnish, German, and now Spanish and Swedish too.
If you have a Mac, I highly, highly recommend Boxer. It's the easiest, most userfriendly way to play DOS games there is. Only quibble is that if the game you're using isn't automatically configured, then you still have to poke about with text-based preference files, but for most games I never have to do that.
# More toys. Boxer 0.8 comes with 4 ready-to-play sample games, rounded out with a set of useful DOS utilities.
# Drag-drop game installation. Drag CDs and game folders onto the new installer droplet to install and package them. Import a game’s CD so you can play the game without it. Increased DOS disk space lets those really big CD games install.
# Smarter friendlier behaviour. Launch Boxer to browse your games folder now, instead of a DOS prompt. Sensible default locations in place of nagging questions. Game packages remember your CPU speed adjustments. Games on read-only drives are copied to ensure they can save their data.
# Better Mac integration. Boxer now automatically supports non-US keyboards, scales the window better for large screens, and makes sure Spaces keyboard shortcuts don’t interfere with games. And if you have Growl, Boxer will show pretty notifications too.
# More power-user features. Hold down Option as you launch a game package to choose a program inside it. Easily start IPX networks. [autoexec] blocks now let you run programs on auto-mounted drives.
# ¿Habla Español? Boxer speaks Finnish, German, and now Spanish and Swedish too.
If you have a Mac, I highly, highly recommend Boxer. It's the easiest, most userfriendly way to play DOS games there is. Only quibble is that if the game you're using isn't automatically configured, then you still have to poke about with text-based preference files, but for most games I never have to do that.