alinebee / Boxer

The DOS game emulator that's fit for your Mac.
http://boxerapp.com/
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LFN and Other Enhancements Coming to Boxer? #67

Open 3371-Alpha opened 7 years ago

3371-Alpha commented 7 years ago

Boxer is perhaps by far, the best way to play dos games on the Mac. Just the other day however, whilst browsing the DOSBox wiki, I learned there were several enhanced Builds of DOSBox for windows with full Long File Name support and more accurate emulation. I also discovered that you could install FreeDOS in DOSBox inorder to gain utilities (such as the "more" command) that DOSBox doesn't include by default. What you've already achieved with Boxer is very impressive (simply clicking an icon is the most intuitive way to play a dos game) but do you think these enhancements and FreeDOS utilities might be able to come to Boxer (assuming they don't have conflicting licenses).

3371-Alpha commented 7 years ago

Just realized this by digging inside Boxer's app bundle, it already includes some FreeDOS utilities. Not a lot of them but some like Deltree.com are included. No offense intended to Alun Bestor, but Boxer could use some improved documentation better detailing what it does and doesn't support/include. Not too long back I spent the longest time trying to figure out how to use gus with Boxer only to find the patches were included out of the box (no pun intended).