IIRC the ~/dosbox.conf file does not exist on a Mac for DOSBox 0.73 and the contents are found instead in ~/library/preferences/DOSBox 0.73 Preferences and this file is automatically made when you first start DOSBox. If I do recall correctly, perhaps this would be a good thing to add to http://www. …

danielc wrote: Use HX DOS Extender within DOSBox. How did you get that to work? Best wishes, Oscar

Just for your education, there is fairly well-written text that can explain why you get hostile (actually exasperated) responses. You can find it here: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html. Best wishes, Oscar

Is there an ETA for that next release, or merely a comment indicating it is hard to make it work? Best wishes, Oscar

Why are you asking about running a game in Windows Vista at a forum about running games in DOS(box)? Best wishes, Oscar

Not only that, but the PoR:RoMD user interface was truly horrible. You may be much happier getting Neverwinter Nights and playing one of the PoR mods made for it.. -Oz

American McGee's Alice is unlikely to run on DosBOX because it needs DirectX. I suggest using Parallels or Bootcamp for that. -Oscar

Thanks for the replies. I may experiment further.. Best wishes, Oscar

So which of these work on Mac OS X? Obviously not DDraw, but I am wondering if these options are functional at all. Best wishes Oscar

I tried to get HX DOS Extender to work with both Mechwarrior 2 Titanium and X-Wing 95. I copied of the DLLs mentioned in the HX documentation, as well as any DirectX file I could find from an old Win98 installation and put them in a fodler I added to the PATH . In both cases, I got the following …

Will this be in the next DOSBOX release?

I switched to a Mac some five years ago, and I do not have the DOS versions of these games... I will go play with this sometime 😀.

10 million thanks for countless hours spent in nostalgia 🙄 Best wishes, Oscar

Have you tried a better DOS extender? That has solved problems for me in the past, and I dimly recall that MoM uses DOS4GW by default. Best wishes, Oscar

Dear techies, I have been reading the pages of HX Extender and I am wondering if this can be used to run such games as MechWarrior 2 Titanium and X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter. I understand that these games use very few of the features Win9x has, so I figured HX might do th trick. Am I on the right track …