Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs

>install DOSBox for Mac

Mind you there are countless DOSBox forks out there and the vanilla original one is probably the least interesting one.

Nowadays the three most popular one would be DOSBox-X, DOSBox Pure, and DOSBox Staging

https://dosbox-x.com/ https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x

https://schelling.itch.io/dosbox-pure https://github.com/schellingb/dosbox-pure-unleashed/

https://www.dosbox-staging.org/ https://github.com/dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging

Heroic Launcher makes it even simpler, also for non-DOS Windows games (both very old and newer) - https://heroicgameslauncher.com/

This seems like a good place to mention boxer for macos. Sadly discontinued in 2016

https://boxerapp.com/

which was then continued via boxer-plus which adds apple silicon support

https://github.com/Solid7s/Boxer-Plus

edit: I think it has apple silicon support. I am getting mized messages when I look it up.

My favourite project to run these old games was Boxer (1). Based on dosbox, it creates a runnable self contained disk (app) for each game or set of games / software. It is pretty neat, but I am not sure if it has been maintained recently.

1 boxerapp.com

This is why Rosetta 2's looming retirement sucks.

This is awesome, and I can't wait to have the time to set this up and install my GOG library .. but one thing has been bugging me for a long time about my GOG library, and that is: local multiplayer network gaming was awesome then.

So .. is there going to be any chance of getting multiplayer networking setup for some of the GOG's? Has anyone accomplished this in the DOXBox-*'en .app'o-sphere yet?

Is it really necessary to first install and copy from a Windows machine?