yeah just start them up.
no problem.

That works in windows, but on Mac when I try to start another instance it just goes to the one already running.

Now, I wonder why would you want to do this 😲 😕

Maybe to test modem/network emulation? I remember running two full-screen copies of Quake on Linux on my 486DX4-120 and joining them together in a multiplayer LAN game. Of course it wasn't very convenient flipping between two virtual consoles, but I really just did it to see if I could 😀

Yeah, it's helpful to troubleshoot networking between to DosBox's.

It's certainly easier than networking DOSBox with a real DOS computer, I'd bet.

Chicagozanian wrote:

That works in windows, but on Mac when I try to start another instance it just goes to the one already running.

Hmmm - I not sure how/why this happens, but *something* in the system is trying to be a little bit too user-friendly it seems. Perhaps it simply sees that the same program/executable is already running, and decides to simply put the existing window to the front.

You might be able to fool the system by renaming the DOSBox executable. E.g. if it is currently named something like dosbox.app try making a copy of the file and name it something slightly different, e.g. dosbox2.app. When you then launch dosbox2.app, the system can not be sure that the two programs are identical, and it should launch a second copy.

Let us know if it works, okay?

The only way I know to do this is to run the program inside the .app package (either by browsing to it using finder or using the terminal to launch it). Either way it will open a terminal window that can't be closed (without closing dosbox) until you're done with dosbox.

Granted I'm no mac expert so there might be another way.

Lame. So it's an OS restriction that you can't do something as simple as opening two copies of something as simple as notepad or calculator applications at the same time?

No - MacOSX is a real Unix system in disguise, so it can run as many copies as you want. The problem is figurering out how to circumvent all that looser-friendlyness.