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DOSBox => Boxer
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Senior User
Join Date: Dec 2002
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For some reason I recently got an itch to fire up the original Warcraft game, and since I didn't want to deal with a PPC emulator I decided to try it on Windows in VirtualBox (blech, ran at about 1/8th normal speed in there.. it's free for a reason!). I've also got a trial of VMWare Fusion at home to try it on but I stumbled across Boxer which is a slick port of DOSBox to OS X. Maybe this is old news to you guys! I launched it, told it to make me a folder to act as a C drive, and put the copy of Warcraft I downloaded in there and it worked like a freakin' charm. Full audio, full framerates, mouse and keyboard.
Just thought I'd share my success story. I found a copy of the game on Abandonia.
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Travis Sanderson
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Automatic
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Nice to hear, Boxer looks 'cool'… in a sense of software that just works. I had downloaded Boxer some time ago to run a silly MS-DOS batch file, but once I ran the batch file, it asked for Windows so I kissed that one arrivederci LOL
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: WI, United States
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Tried Boxer for a couple of my old games. Excellent little program!
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I have returned... 2020 MacBook Air - 1.1 GHz Quad-Core i5 - 16 GB RAM
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Philadelphia, PA
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how much Dos do I need to know. I want to run a copy of XCom but the ol c:/ shows up and I end up just blinking back and shutting it down.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 1999
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I'd recommend Darklands. My absolute favorite DOS game of all time. I still play it because the open-ended plot allows for unlimited game play. 
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: WI, United States
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Originally Posted by eyevaan 
how much Dos do I need to know. I want to run a copy of XCom but the ol c:/ shows up and I end up just blinking back and shutting it down.
None if all goes well. Install Boxer, pop the CD in, the floppy, open the file, etc... whatever it may be and open the .exe of the game. Boxer recognizes this by default and will open it for you. The game will now install as it would normally. Boxer throws your c: drive by default in a folder in your documents. It will install to here.
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I have returned... 2020 MacBook Air - 1.1 GHz Quad-Core i5 - 16 GB RAM
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Philadelphia, PA
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groovey!  gonna try it sOOn! thx in advance. If no one sees me around for a REALLY long time you know it worked. 
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Philadelphia, PA
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IT worked!!! thank you very much for helping loose an even larger chunk of my nonexistant free time.
Really I do appreciate it. Senseless I know, why play a game from 15 years ago? I can't tell you why, I just know I really like the game... now I will let this thread die, as it should been allowed to.
I guess for anyone interested:
"XCOM: Ufo Defense" and "XCOM: Terror from the Deep".
You will need to run the setup.exe and set the soundcard to midi music and it will play with sound.
To play double click either newxcom.bat or full.bat to start the game after running the setup for the music and sound.
enjoy
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