how can i play my oldschool p.c titles on a mac with osx

dash · Post by **dash** » Sun May 03, 2009 12:59 pm

hi, does anyone know of a good p.c emulator which will work on mac o.s.x so i can play the likes of monkey island, syndicate, space quest etc on it?

cheers

hippy dave · Post by **hippy dave** » Sun May 03, 2009 1:12 pm

for monkey island, use scummvm. for general old dos games, try dosbox.

soniq · Post by **soniq** » Sun May 03, 2009 9:52 pm

for dos games in general try boxer. its a dosbox frontend and extremely easy to use. self-explanatory, nothing to configure, everything works just fine.

http://boxerapp.com/

it creates seperate packages of your games with everything you need to play (install-data, disk images, etc) inside, so you basicly run old dos games like every other application on osx.

and you don't need to install dosbox seperatly, everything is included in the boxer installer.

dash · Post by **dash** » Mon May 04, 2009 8:03 pm

cheers guys!

MeddlingMonk · Post by **MeddlingMonk** » Wed May 06, 2009 1:50 am

Also, if it's an old Windows (95/98/ME) game and you have an Intel Mac, then Wine is potentially an option.

chelyha · Post by **chelyha** » Mon May 11, 2009 4:27 am

the one game I'd like to play is The 7th Guest. I have a mac running Leopard and I have no idea what is meant by "copy files", DosBox, etc. Can you help? Thanks!

Cheryl

bobdevis · Post by **bobdevis** » Mon May 11, 2009 4:47 am

chelyha wrote:the one game I'd like to play is The 7th Guest. I have a mac running Leopard and I have no idea what is meant by "copy files", DosBox, etc. Can you help? Thanks!

Cheryl

Specific instructions for The 7th Guest are here
If you don't understand what "coping a file" means you should get someone to show it to you in person. I'm a bit at a loss on how to explain that.

chelyha · Post by **chelyha** » Thu May 14, 2009 3:37 pm

I think this stuff is beyond my skill level. I rely on my Mac for far too much to risk blowing it up trying to play an old game!

But thanks for the info anyway!

Longcat · Post by **Longcat** » Thu May 14, 2009 3:43 pm

lol. I hardly think copying a file or running ScummVM or DosBOX is going to blow up your mac in any sort of way, but if you manage to do it somehow, I sure would like a wallpapersized photo:D

chelyha · Post by **chelyha** » Thu May 14, 2009 3:53 pm

Jonatan wrote:lol. I hardly think copying a file or running ScummVM or DosBOX is going to blow up your mac in any sort of way, but if you manage to do it somehow, I sure would like a wallpapersized photo:D

Perhaps I should rephrase that. I don't want to "lock up" my Mac so I can't use it!

Longcat · Post by **Longcat** » Thu May 14, 2009 4:02 pm

Well, I can assure you, tat is not going to happen either, in any way:)

Copying the files means making a folder on your hard drive and copying the datafiles from the games cd to that folder, then making mp3's of the audio tracks on the same cd with something like iTunes, placing them in the same directory, installing scummvm and telling it tor run the game from that folder by pressing a few buttons.

nothing is changed or modified on your mac, and nothing like a machine lock-up would occur:)

chelyha · Post by **chelyha** » Thu May 14, 2009 5:24 pm

Jonatan wrote:Well, I can assure you, tat is not going to happen either, in any way:)

Copying the files means making a folder on your hard drive and copying the datafiles from the games cd to that folder, then making mp3's of the audio tracks on the same cd with something like iTunes, placing them in the same directory, installing scummvm and telling it tor run the game from that folder by pressing a few buttons.

nothing is changed or modified on your mac, and nothing like a machine lock-up would occur:)

Oh, ok, now it sounds like something I might actually be able to figure out. Thanks!

Longcat · Post by **Longcat** » Thu May 14, 2009 7:01 pm

no prob. feel free to ask if you have any questions.