Hey, I have a Macbook Pro I want to play Carmageddon with Boxer.app on. I've just put the game in and entered in a password for the "uncut" edition. However, when I try to launch a new game, it asks for a Carmageddon CD. Anyone have any idea on how to get around this?

Also, has there been any success on using Boxer to run the non-hardware version of the game? I know about the whole "Boxer has no 3DFX support" deal, so I've just been running the "carma.exe" file.

Boxer is still dosbox and still loads just like any other dosbox version.
Take a look at the config files included with the gog version

You will see that the executable to launch even in software mode is still voodo2c.exe

Personally id still go into the dosbox.pref that is generated in the game box and load the game.dat file manually if you want the music

imgmount d c:/game.dat -t cdrom -fs iso

boxer doesn't seem to do it right.

My issue is that in software mode the game runs rather choppily in boxer. not sure where the hangup is.

How interesting... Thanks!

Ok sooooooo, here's the deal.

I’m the sole developer on Boxer. Each successive version of Boxer fixes incompatibilities or import difficulties with several more games. These fixes rely almost entirely on user reports, because I can’t speculatively test every game that’s out there.

Chances are that if you’ve run into a problem with Boxer, 1 or 10 or 100 other people have run into the same problem. Even if someone finds and posts a workaround on a forum somewhere, that still adds up to a lot of people independently wasting a lot of their own time trying to find a way around the same problem: a problem that I can probably fix for everyone with only a small amount of my own time.

It goes without saying that I can't fix problems I don't know about: and as there’s only one of me, I can’t keep an eye on every forum for threads about Boxer difficulties. In fact, I almost never check them.

So if you run into problems running any game in Boxer, for heaven’s sake let me know: either with the Report a Bug option in Boxer’s menu, or by contacting me directly. And if you’ve managed to diagnose and fix the problem yourself, all the better to tell me about it afterward: don’t let that work go to waste by keeping it to yourself.

Hi Viggles,

You're right. It would have been better. Though at the time, I wasn't convinced that boxer was at fault. The issues experienced here are simply quirks with the way gog have distributed the game and will soon be fixed when they throw it into boxer themselves, which is the real solution. (installing the game via wineskin can hardly be a solution for the masses anyway)

the cd image thing is just an issue with them labeling the file as .dat as oppose to .iso which is the true format of the file. I suppose you could make that a viable format to select when searching for cd images if you want.

Ehm...Im kindda confused. I have the exact same problem as thesmashingone but Im not quite sure how to solve it.

Could someone post a quick guide with the solution? thanks!