# Mac OS games

Boxer can only emulate MS-DOS games, and will warn you if you try to import a game made for Mac OS.

## Alternatives for Classic Mac OS emulation

Mac OS X will no longer run games that were written for Mac OS 9 and earlier (“Classic Mac OS”). If OS X won’t run your game, and you can’t find a DOS version of the game for Boxer to play with, then you’ll need a Classic Mac OS emulator instead:

- Basilisk II emulates a Motorola 68k Mac.
- SheepShaver emulates a PowerPC Mac.

Each of these emulators requires you to obtain a suitable Macintosh ROM image from elsewhere and to install an actual copy of Mac OS into the emulator yourself. Good luck with that!

## DOS games on Mac+PC hybrid CDs

Some DOS games come on “hybrid” CD-ROMs that contain both Mac and MS-DOS versions of the game: each on separate halves of the disc. Only the Mac half of the disc is visible in OS X: because Boxer cannot access the other half with the DOS version on it, Boxer cannot import DOS games from hybrid CDs.

Instead, you could:

- Insert the hybrid CD into a Windows PC, then copy the DOS game files from there back to your Mac, or:
- Give up and download an MS-DOS version of the game instead.