However, unlocking DOSBox's full potential can require no small amount of configuration file tweaking-the default options generally work just fine, but sometimes you need to tune games to run faster or slower, or change rendering modes because of an incompatibility, or fiddle with some of the more advanced sound options. Fortunately, when it comes to retro gaming, OS X is shoulder to shoulder with Windows: there are console emulators of every flavor if you want to get your Mario on, and the two best DOS emulators, DOSBox and ScummVM, have long been available on OS X (and Linux, too, for that matter).īoth are fine applications if you want to fire up your favorite DOS-era games, though of the two, DOSBox has long been the more feature-complete and had the widest game support. And while Valve's push to have all of its Source titles available via Steam for Mac is much appreciated, we're still a long way away from parity with the PC side of the house. Triple-A titles don't usually come to OS X at the same time that they come to Windows (if they come at all), mainly because the OS X market is so much smaller.

Being a Mac gamer often means being disappointed.

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