#Running a game in dosbox mac os#

First, you need to know where your game is.

This is the part where people who aren't familiar with DOS may need some help. If you use Windows, DOSBox will be added to your Start Menu. Download the version for your operating system and install it. The other great thing about DOSBox is that it's free.Īnyway, you can get DOSBox from the Utilities page, or from DOSBox's website. If, after reading this tutorial, you don't agree that DOSBox is incredibly easy to use, I'll give you your money back! Oh, right. Either way, DOSBox is easy to use, once you understand it. If you're from the age of point-and-click GUIs, you may need a bit of extra help.

#Running a game in dosbox mac os#

Fortunately, almost all DOS games play perfectly in an emulator called DOSBox, which is available for Windows, Linux, OS/2, BeOS, and Mac OS X, and has been unofficially ported to almost every other modern platform.įor people who are used to the DOS operating system, or command line operating systems in general, DOSBox is pretty straightforward. Starting with Windows Vista, only text-mode games can be played in 32-bit versions of Windows, and 16-bit software doesn't work at all in 64-bit versions.

Windows XP could still natively play some DOS games, but the sound could be missing, the speed could be wrong, or the game might not work at all. DOS games stopped working reliably when DOS was removed from Windows after Windows 95/98/Me.