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by bane 5275 days ago
It actually sounds quite amazing, I'm getting it tonight for my older MBP.

Any idea if there's a windows port? Or any plans for one? It sounds like a significant improvement over dosbox...making it almost like a proper console emulator in terms of ease of use.

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I have no plans to do a Windows port myself, as I've no interest in using or developing for Windows anymore.

I'd be delighted if someone else would have a crack at producing something Boxer-like for Windows; however, while Boxer is opensource it's written in Objective C using OS X-native APIs, so a port would involve pretty much a total rewrite of every part of Boxer that's not DOSBox. Any such project for Windows would be better off using Boxer as a source of inspiration rather than a codebase.