[lastdong]

My favourite project to run these old games was Boxer (1). Based on dosbox, it creates a runnable self contained disk (app) for each game or set of games / software. It is pretty neat, but I am not sure if it has been maintained recently.

1 boxerapp.com

[giobox]

Boxer was wonderful in its day, I think it also became the basis of the official GOG Mac DOS game releases for a while too:

> https://www.gog.com/forum/general_archive/mac_dos_game_editi...

I've hoped for years someone would pickup the source and get it going again, it's essentially abandonware right now, no changes in nine years. The website is like a time machine back to the peak skeuomorphic mac app era. It still has the nicest UX of any of the DosBox variants I've tried. In this era of agentic rewrites, modernizing this app is probably the cheapest it has ever been too...

> http://boxerapp.com/

> https://github.com/alinebee/Boxer

[grobibi]

Check out boxer-plus

https://github.com/Solid7s/Boxer-Plus

[simgoh]

4 commits all in April. Needs some more love & time.

[1313ed01]

I do the opposite and put all games together, with DOS BAT-files to launch the games. I boot up my virtual dream DOS machine by just starting DOSBox-X and then I launch the games the way they are meant to be launched, from the DOS COMMAND.COM command-line. And as I mentioned in another comment, all of that is in one big DOS git repo.

Nice thing with DOSBox-X is there is a built-in command to set config parameters, so for games that require special settings or to slow down etc that can be set up from its launcher BAT file. All games share the same dosbox config file with default settings.

[lastdong]

Thanks, I’ll check it out

[grobibi]

its back https://github.com/Solid7s/Boxer-Plus