Mac Games - Download Free During the early days of Mac computers, Apple wanted the machines to be seen as serious work tools. These are not toys, the marketing team would say, they are high-powered devices that can make your life better.
Free DOS games, and tips on where to find more of them.
Freebies for Boxer
If you’re finished with the sample demos that come with Boxer, here are 4 more free Boxer-ready games to try. These are in Mac-only .dmg archives, so only download them if you have a Mac.
Finding free games
Here are some good websites that offer freeware and shareware DOS games:
Replacementdocs carries good-quality PDF scans of game manuals, maps and other box material for a lot of DOS games.
These websites are not affiliated with Boxer. Please do not contact the makers of these websites for Boxer technical support.
Finding commercial games
Steam and Good Old Games rerelease many popular DOS games, along with their documentation.
You’ll need Windows to install games from these services, but after installation you can copy the games’ folders to your Mac and play them with Boxer too.
Try Ebay and other internet auction sites for out-of-print games. It’s possible to find CD rereleases—or even mint-condition boxes—of most popular games.
Let’s maintain the convenient fiction that you won’t just google “abandonware” and avail yourself of the many websites for pirated DOS games instead.
Makin’ them purty icons
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Boxer can turn any images you like into gorgeous new icons for your gameboxes.
- For new games: Import the game and drop your image onto the game icon once it’s finished.
- For existing games: Open the Game Inspector while playing, and drop your image onto the dropzone.
Game cover scans make great icons. You can download cover art for your games from Abandonia or Mobygames.
Would you like to preview the new release? FreeDOS 1.3 Release Candidate 2 is now available for download. Please help us test this new version! A big feature in FreeDOS 1.3 will be booting into a LiveCD version of FreeDOS. You can test this by downloading FD13-LiveCD.zip, which contains FD13LIVE.ISO. Most users should try the LiveCD version.
Download FreeDOS 1.3 RC2 » (at ibiblio)
FreeDOS is a complete operating system. For new users, we recommend installing FreeDOS in a PC emulator or “virtual machine.” If you install FreeDOS directly on a computer, without using a PC emulator, you may overwrite the operating system you have now (for example, Windows.) Please be careful.
Problems with VirtualBox?
If you get a scrolling list of “Invalid Opcode” errors when you boot the FreeDOS 1.2 installation CDROM, this is a bug in VirtualBox since we released FreeDOS 1.2.
Here’s a workaround: When you boot the FreeDOS install CDROM, at the first “Welcome to FreeDOS 1.2” boot menu, press Tab when you’re on “Install to harddisk” and add
raw
to the command line, then press Enter to boot.Click the screenshot for larger view:
The FreeDOS 1.2 distribution is available in multiple formats:
Boot floppy (see notes below)
We recommend the CDROM installer for most users. The “standard” CDROM image should work on most computers and PC emulators. Older computers may need the “legacy” CDROM image instead.
If your computer cannot boot from CDROM, use the boot floppy. Write this image to a floppy with Rawrite or dd, boot it, then insert the install CDROM when the install program starts up.
If your computer doesn't have a CDROM drive, use the USB fob drive installer. Write this to a USB fob drive and boot it to start the install. The “Full” and “Lite” versions install the same FreeDOS, but the “Lite” installer does not contain some extra bonus software packages.
How much space do you need? At minimum, you need at least 10MB to install just Base, without source code. Or at least 81MB to install everything, including source code.