Hi guys! Does anyone have a step for step explanation or guide how to install all the files of the pc version into a boxer file for OSX? I've been looking around a bit and saw some references of people getting it to work on mac.

I already managed to install the game into a WINE wrapper so I have acces to the game files. I'm even able to play it with the wrapper, but it's very clunky, and I'm inexperienced with setting up a decent wine wrapper. When I look through the install files I'm not really sure which files to use or how to make a dosbox launch file.

I don't own Blood so I cannot comment directly, but I have done this with other games in the past.

You've already done the hard part (using WINE), the rest is easy! You just need to find the folder (within the wrapper) containing the actual game files. It's usually buried pretty deep inside and requires using right-click "show package contents" a couple of times when you run out of sub-folders. IIRC, normally it's "show package contents" on the wrapper, then Contents > Resources > "show package contents" on the game app > Contents > Resources > Game, or something similar.

However, once you find that folder it's as easy as dragging it on top of the Boxer icon (I assume since you mentioned Boxer that you've already downloaded it) and it will be automatically set up, although you may have to do a little experimentation to find out exactly which .bat or .exe file loads the game properly.

Anyway, maybe not exactly what you are looking for but hopefully it will help!

You don't really need Boxer to get Blood 1 running on OSX. You just need to get DOSBox for OSX and then set it up to run the Blood files.

I'll try to figure it out tomorrow when I can get access to my Mac.

but you can download the OSX build of DOSBox from their Sourcefoge page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox/files/dosbox/0.74/DOSBox-0.74-1_Universal.dmg/download

Thanks for your reply, the WINE part I already figured out, I knew where the files were. Only I was not sure if I needed the whole folder to use with Dosbox. :) I actually completely forgot about Boxer, since I already had the Dosbox app. I forgot it was so simple with boxer to just drop the files on the application. It worked like a charm! The only thing that needs to be reconfigured is that it plays the cinematics (beginning of the game, and end of campaigns), with the current setup it skips those. Thanks again! Thanks, but I already tried the Boxer app. It runs! I only need to get the cinematics running at the beginning and end of the game. But maybe your build will work better?

Sorry, I shot off the reply without fact checking. I was thinking Boxer was WineBottler and that you were trying to run the DOSBox windows binary inside that. You should be good with Boxer, it's powered by the OSX DOSBox build.

You will want to find where Boxer keeps it's dosbox.conf files and edit that so it can mount the Blood cd image file (game.gog)

when you find dosbox.conf, check at the bottom to find the section [autoexec]. Before it launches blood.exe add the line:

imgmount D game.ins -t iso

you might have to add in the full path to the game.ins file for it to work.

I'll play around with Boxer and see if I can find where it's hidden.

Addendum:

So it looks like boxer repackages Blood into a DOS Games folder in your user directory.
On the game shelf, you can control+click on the Blood icon to get the right-click menu and select: Show Package Contents.

You should see a file DOSBox preferences.conf, open that with TextEdit and add in that imagemount command below the [autoexec] section

No problem, I appreciate the help!

I added the line, it didn't work sadly. I also tried copying this whole part from one of the other files:

@ECHO OFF
mount C ".."
c:
imgmount D game.ins -t iso
cls
blood.exe
exit

I tried some combinations from other forum posts to get it to work, but strangely it doesn't.
I did manage to turn of the bloody auto aim by inserting this line: blood.exe -noaim
Also one more strange thing, inside the WINE app I used to extract the files from, it has six seperate .conf files, instead of just the one that Boxer uses for the package.

Odd, well you can also just add that text to a batch file and launch it that way I suppose.
at the Boxer command prompt, enter in the command: After that open the start.bat file with textEdit and add in the rest of the text you listed above.

echoing the text into a file at command line first will generate a text file with the right ANSI encoding. Just doing it from scratch in textEdit might confuse DOSBox

Save the file and then just launch the game by typing "start"

Yeah, it's weird that nothing seems to work so far. Must be something with Boxer... Maybe I should shoot the guy who made it an e-mail.
I tried making a .bat file in a boxer prompt, but I'm not getting any file anywhere. Are you able to send me a bat file perhaps?

Thanks for sending the bat file! It didn't work, but I think I found the problem. When messing around with the boxer file I think I accidentally mounted something else as the D drive, so it wouldn't mount the one with the cinematics on it. Once I ejected the intruder I mounted the correct drive manually like you explained.

Thanks for your help. I can finally enjoy the game to its fullest :)

Glad you finally got it working. Sorry you were having all the trouble. I'll get rid of that google drive link.

Thanks for hanging in there ;)

I'm considering making a step-by-step guide to get this working for mac users. Is it easy to request a post like that to be stickied? (last question, I swear). Not sure who the mods are in this place.