Help me! I haven't played Tomb Raider 1 in 13 years and I'm desperate to play it again! My mom, my sister and I all played it on our old iMac back in the year 2000. I was just a kid at the time so thinking about it now makes me so nostalgic! We were absolutely enthralled by it and went on to play TR2, TR3, Last Revelation, and Chronicles! Unfortunately I haven't been able to play TR1 in 13 years because we had to get rid of the only computer that we could play it on (the iMac we got after we trashed the old one couldn't support TR1 because by then the game was too old). These days we're an all laptop family with the oldest one (mine) being from 2007, so now we can't play ANY of the original TR games because they never update the original games for newer operating systems (grrrrrr!)

Please help me! I need a way to play TR1 on my year 2007 Macbook with OS 10.6.8 or else I'm going to explode from frustration! I attempted to download and install an older operating system but I got the message that the "environment could not be supported" or something to that effect.

I think the easiest thing to do is to install Windows XP or so on your Mac with bootcamp, because the GOG installer for TR is only for Windows.

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1. download the mac version of dosbox

2. in the directory you downloaded the tomb raider files rename the file game.gog to game.iso

3. make sure all the directorys in the download are 8 characters or less

4. launch dosbox

5. type imgmount d "drive letter"\"tomb raider directory where game.iso is present"\game.iso -t iso

5 type mount c "drive letter of your hard drive"

6. type c:

7. type cd\"whatever the directory you installed tomb raider to and contains tombs.exe

8. the first time you run it type setup and select autodetect and select test if you hear lara talking all is good.

9. exit setup and type tombs (tomb wont work)

10. enjoy

this might not be entirey accurate as this is how i got the game running on the android version of dosbox and will also work for the windows version (without the windows gog launcher) but im sure you'll figure it out from that,

this also solved full screen problems for people ho dont want to download glide emulators

How I managed to make it work, some of these steps might be redundant, but at least it works now:

Install Tomb Raider 1 on a Windows machine and transfer the game folder to Mac (perhaps running the setup in Wine is fine as well).

Use Boxer instead of Dosbox (imports dos-based games and creates shortcuts for them).

Rename the game folder to 8 characters, Tombraid for example.

Rename Game.gog as Game.iso

Import the game folder to Boxer.

Run Setup when asked and use autodetect. Exit setup.

Set Boxer to launch Tombs.exe when asked.


The one problem I have right now is I cannot enter the options menu when the game is running. Fn+F5 and Fn+F6 work for saving and loading, but Esc doesn't work, so exiting the game is done by cmd+Q.