Adam ConoverHello Mastodon, I seek your retrogame expertise. I wish to play Barbie: As Sleeping Beauty on a modern Mac. How might I go about doing so? https://archive.org/details/barbie-as-sleeping-beauty_15
I have tried both the above ISO, and the those found on Myabandonware, with the DOSBox fork "Boxer" without any success. https://www.myabandonware.com/game/barbie-as-sleeping-beauty-l5b (MyAbandonware ISOs are said to be corrupted - the one from archive.org loads on my Mac, but Boxer says that it does not contain a DOS executable.) Any ideas? I am trying to get this working for a less tech-savvy friend, so I need the solution to not be TOO complex for an average Mac user to follow.
Mega “Byte” Matt 
@adamconover also worthy of a mention is Whisky, a free alternative to Crossover that is easy enough to use: https://getwhisky.app
@megamatt Tried this - couldn't figure out how to install from this archive.org ISO (which other users seem to have had luck on in modern Windows) https://archive.org/details/BarbieSleepingBeauty
@adamconover Sorry for the delayed response (timezones!). This is definitely a weird case, and I see why it's unable to open now—it's a Windows *and* an (old) Mac disc. Some discs had both. You can extract the windows files with the Unarchiver (there's some interesting audio files), but I couldn't get those to work with Wine, sadly. I think your best bet would be to use VirtualBox to run Windows 98, and set that up for the person you wanted to, sorry.
nebunez @adamconover @megamatt I don’t feel super qualified here, as I’m not a Mac user, but I did run this in WINE on Linux yesterday and it pretty much just worked.
So, if WINE is available for Mac, you should be able to:
- run
wine SETUP.exeto install the game - run
winefile - navigate to where the game can be launched (
C:\users\Public\Desktop\Barbie As Sleeping Beauty.Ink) - launch it.