18 year old DOS software running on a Mac in OS X! The really amazing part is that the floppy disks still worked!
Dance of the Planets!
DOSBox for OS X http://www.dosbox.com/download.php?main=1
# Copy the installation floppy files to a folder e.g.:
# /Users/simon/Documents/dos/install/dance
# Mount your C: drive to somewhere e.g.:
mount C: /Users/simon/Documents/dos
# Mount your A: drive with the install files
mount A: /Users/simon/Documents/dos/install/dance -t floppy
# Change to drive A: and run the INSTALL.EXE
# Edit your DOSBox preferences file, so the next time you start, you are into the C:
[autoexec]
mount C: /Users/simon/Documents/dos
C:
Note that you can copy the installation floppy image to a single image file from the Terminal:
# ** TERMINAL ** Mount shows the USB floppy drive path
mount
# ** OS X ** Disk Utility, Right click on the floppy media, click unmount.
# ** TERMINAL ** Below assume USB floppy mounted on disk3
dd if=/dev/disk3 of=DOTP27.img
# ** DOSBox ** you can imgmount
imgmount a: /Users/simon/Documents/dos/DOTP27.img -t floppy
Unfortunately DOSBox doesn't allow swappable floppies. Even symbolically linking and swapping links to the different IMG files or the actual hard drives, via terminal. Although I think that may have worked, perhaps my Stars 8.0 is borked - I have the vague feeling that it never worked.
