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DOSBox Pure

DOSBox reimagined, with a friendly interface, ZIP loading and save states · By Schelling

How to start the Mac OS Arm64 Version on a MacBook Pro M1 Pro - "This program 'DosBoxPure'​ cannot be opened!"

A topic by DerMartinez created 72 days ago Views: 40 Replies: 1
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I have unpacked the Mac OS ARM 64 Version, and anytime when I want to start it on my MacBook Pro M1 Pro, an error message pops up as follows: "This program 'DosBoxPure' cannot be opened!" What am I doing wrong?

Developer

There’s been a discussion on GitHub about this problem https://github.com/schellingb/dosbox-pure-unleashed/issues/2

It turns out that on recent versions of macOS the operating system will put anything downloaded into a quarantine so downloaded programs can’t be run. To remove said quarantine-flag you will need to run a command in the terminal:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/DOSBoxPure.app

After that it should run.