PeachPup wrote on 2020-04-27, 21:09:

but of course when I try to run Oddballz through DOSBox on my Mac, I get an error message saying "This program must be run under Microsoft Windows".

That's the message for 16-bit Windows applications. You should be able to install Windows 3.x in DOSBox and run the game that way, if there isn't a more elegant solution.

Thanks for the reply! Do you think it would work if I installed Windows 95 on DOSBox instead? That's what I remember originally running the game on and I think it's more likely that I'll be able to find a copy of it lying around the house somewhere.

It might work, but running Windows 95 in DOSBox is not generally supported and will likely cause problems. (It works slightly better in the unofficial DOSBox-X fork, but I don't even know if that's available for OS X.) Windows 3.x works much better.

Alrighty. Thanks again for the info! I'll try to get my hands on a copy 😀

You could always try UniPCemu or PCem(or was it PCem-X? For better speed.), although UniPCemu still is a bit slow(needing more optimizations, but currently unknown which ones) at ~30% realtime speed at i7-4790K@4.0GHz running at 3MIPS. But UniPCemu has the pro for better ET4000 graphics card emulation afaik(more accuracy compared to PCem/Dosbox).