GOG.com goes Mac

[Metal Jesus]

For all you old school dos gamers out there, give the excellent free app: BOXER a try! It's basically drag and drop. I am able to play most of my classic Sierra adventures, System Shock, Doom and more this way

http://boxerapp.com/

[RCBH928]

actually GOG are using BOXER to run DOS games on MAC. Its on the blog of the BOXER developer. But instead of making it a general emulation they pack in the emulator with the game.

@AppleQueso

I am not sure how an emulator works, but as far as I know it mimics an OS. last time I heard that is like patented stuff. Apple are suing companies for "slide to unlock" , so I guess others will be upset over emulating their OS's or consoles...
I could be very wrong.

[isiolia]

I am not sure how an emulator works, but as far as I know it mimics an OS. last time I heard that is like patented stuff. Apple are suing companies for "slide to unlock" , so I guess others will be upset over emulating their OS's or consoles...
I could be very wrong.

Emulators simulate hardware, not the OS. Additionally, they don't necessarily need to copy the internal method of interpreting a given instruction. They just need to produce the same result. Effectively, they can be done as a black box system.

DOSBox isn't emulating DOS per se. It's emulating an x86 PC. It has a DOS compatible shell on top of that, but DOS was never just an MS thing. In fact, that was a big point of contention when Windows 95 was released, as it fused MS-DOS 7.0 and Windows 4.0 as a product. Before that, a consumer could run Windows on top of their choice of DOS from several different vendors.

[RCBH928]

Thanx, I keep forgetting that emulation is emulating the hardware but I always thought that with the hardware there must come some sort of an OS that able the games to run on that hardware. Maybe that OS was packed in the cartridges with consoles like SNES and Genesis.