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A few years ago I had downloaded versions of these games on my old PC and used Dosbox to play them. Is there any way I can download them and play them on a Mac? I'm not looking for similar games--I like the crappy old animation and getting to choose which Sierra characters I crush at Cribbage. Does Dosbox work on a Mac? Also, can anyone help me track these games down again? (I'd be happy to pay for them, though I do own them all on floppies.) I'm far from a computer genius--a friend set the games up for me last time--so any advice would be greatly appreciated!
I loved those Hoyle games, and I'm eagerly awaiting the replies. Seeing King Graham turn into an old maid always cracked me up. To somewhat answer your question, I believe there are a bunch of 'classic games formatted for mac' torrents out there, I think at the very least some of the Police Quest games are in there. posted by yellowbinder at 5:13 PM on June 23, 2009
Dosbox does work on a Mac... dosbox site Best abandonware site: vetusware posted by spacefire at 5:15 PM on June 23, 2009 ![]()
I know it's not directly answering your question, but as someone who gets nostalgic every now and then for vintage games, have you thought about just watching them on youtube? Personally I don't find it always fun to engage these games directly, but it is nice to watch them played (and see the graphics and hear the music) without mucking around with figuring out first how to run them, and second, re-learning controls. Most popular vintage games have at least a few 'walkthrough' videos. Check it out: Space Quest 3 Kings Quest 5 posted by wfrgms at 6:01 PM on June 23, 2009
Wfrgms: Those are pretty awesome. The card games are a lot less intense than the regular Sierra games, which is why I'm not looking to reply King's Quest 4 or the Leisure Suit Larry games. :) Spacefire: Thanks for the Dosbox info! I can't find my games on that other site, alas. Yellowbinder: I'll try some new Google combos. And yes, that was the best part of Old Maid. Hee. posted by leesh at 6:05 PM on June 23, 2009
i don't see the hoyle games listed on the compatibility list but i thought it was worth mention the scumm vm in case you had not seen it. posted by phil at 6:51 PM on June 23, 2009
one more time with a working link posted by phil at 6:51 PM on June 23, 2009
Blast, just checked the torrents I was thinking of, no Hoyle, but all the Police Quest and Leisure Suit Larry a person could ever want.
I take it back, Graham was pretty good, but the best was when the Colonel from the first Laura Bow game became the old maid. He was so not happy. Awww... I miss the good old Sierra days! posted by yellowbinder at 7:02 PM on June 23, 2009 Download Dosbox For Windows 7
Phil--I didn't know about scumm vm, so thanks! Yellowbinder--me too! I am seriously jonesing for some gin rummy against the wacky animator. posted by leesh at 8:04 PM on June 23, 2009
This for adventure only ones [my favorite] sarien.net posted by mattsweaters at 9:57 PM on June 23, 2009
I had a gametap subscription for a few months 3 years ago. At the time, they had almost all the old sierra adventure games ported over. The best part was, old games would run really well. I bet you could try running their client in Parallels or Crossover and see what that does. posted by heathkit at 1:09 AM on June 24, 2009
leesh and yellowbinder, check your MeFi Mail. posted by bertrandom at 10:59 AM on June 24, 2009 How To Install Dosbox
I'm on a PC, but here are the general instructions for a Mac:
Make a directory in your home directory for all your DosBox games, like 'DOSGAMES', move the archives of all your games into it. Double-click on the archive and it should extract the zip file into a folder with the same name as the zip. Download and install DosBox for OSX: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dosbox/DOSBox-0.73_Universal.dmg?download Launch DosBox: Assuming you chose 'DOSGAMES' as your directory name, type MOUNT C ~/DOSGAMES C: Then change to the directory of that archive you uncompressed, lets say its HOYLE1 cd hoyle1 With old sierra games from this era, you'll have to run the setup program, which is called INSTALL. You only have to do this once. INSTALL Choose EGA/VGA With RGB Monitor - 16 Colors (Hoyle1 didn't support true VGA graphics I'm pretty sure. If VGA by itself is an option, you want that) Choose Adlib Music Synthesizer Card (If Soundblaster is an option, you want that) Choose IBM Keyboard Choose YES for Mouse support When you get to the part where it asks you if you want to Install it to a Hard Drive, hit ESC now type SIERRA and you should be good to go. Now everytime you want to play it, you just launch DOSBOX and type: MOUNT C ~/DOSGAMES C: cd hoyle1 sierra There's a way to configure dosbox to skip the first two commands, but I'll let you read the documentation on how to do that. If you have any other questions, let me know. posted by bertrandom at 10:24 PM on June 24, 2009 [1 favorite] Dosbox For Mac Sierra Vista
Get Boxer! it's a dos emulator. I've been playing all these games like crazy for the last few months. posted by jonathanstrange at 5:49 AM on June 25, 2009
Thanks for the help, everyone! I've been playing cribbage against various Sierra characters all afternoon. posted by leesh at 1:50 PM on June 25, 2009
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DOSBox for Mac is a DOS-emulator that uses the SDL-library which makes DOS Box very easy to port to different platforms. It has already been ported to many different platforms, such as Windows, BeOS, Linux, MacOS X...
It also emulates CPU:286/386 realmode/protected mode, Directory FileSystem/XMS/EMS, Tandy/Hercules/CGA/EGA/VGA/VESA graphics, a SoundBlaster/Gravis Ultra Sound card for excellent sound compatibility with older games... You can 're-live' the good old days with the help of DOSBox for macOS, it can run plenty of the old classics that don't run on your new computer! DOS Emulator is totally free of charge and OpenSource. At present, DOS Box for Mac running on a high-end machine will roughly be the equivalent of a Pentium I PC. It can be configured to run a wide range of DOS games, from CGA/Tandy/PCjr classics up to games from the Quake era. Command Line Parameters dosbox [name] [-exit] [-c command] [-fullscreen] [-userconf] [-conf congfigfilelocation] [-lang languagefilelocation] [-machine machine type] [-noconsole] [-startmapper] [-noautoexec] [-securemode] [-scaler scaler | -forcescaler scaler] [-version] [-socket socket] dosbox -version dosbox -editconf program dosbox -opencaptures program dosbox -printconf dosbox -eraseconf dosbox -erasemapper name If 'name' is a directory it will mount that as the C: drive. If 'name' is an executable it will mount the directory of 'name' as the C: drive and execute 'name'. exit It will close itself when the DOS application 'name' ends. c command Runs the specified command before running 'name'. Multiple commands can be specified. Each command should start with '-c' though. A command can be: an Internal Program, a DOS command or an executable on a mounted drive. fullscreen Starts the program in fullscreen mode. userconf Start program with the users specific configuration file. Can be used together with multiple -conf parameters, but -userconf will always be loaded before them. conf configfilelocation Start tool with the options specified in 'configfilelocation'. Multiple -conf options may be present. See Section 13 for more details. lang languagefilelocation Start app using the language specified in 'languagefilelocation'. See Section 14 for more details. noconsole (Windows Only) Start app without showing DOS Box Status Window (console). Output will be redirected to stdout.txt and stderr.txt startmapper Enter the keymapper directly on startup. Useful for people with keyboard problems. noautoexec Skips the [autoexec] section of the loaded configuration file. securemode Same as -noautoexec, but adds config.com -securemode at the bottom of AUTOEXEC.BAT (which in turn disables any changes to how the drives are mounted inside the program). scaler scaler Uses the scaler specified by 'scaler'. See the configuration file for the available scalers. forcescaler scaler Similar to the -scaler parameter, but tries to force usage of the specified scaler even if it might not fit. version output version information and exit. Useful for frontends. editconf program calls program with as first parameter the configuration file. You can specify this command more than once. In this case it will move to second program if the first one fails to start. opencaptures program calls program with as first parameter the location of the captures folder. printconf prints the location of the default configuration file. resetconf removes the default configuration file. resetmapper removes the mapperfile used by the default clean configuration file. socket passes the socket number to the nullmodem emulation. Also Available: Download DOSBox for Windows Comments are closed.
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