Ohai.
I was curious to know if Daggerfall worked on Macs.
If so, victory is mine! To hell with DOSBOX!

Not natively. You need an Intel-CPU Mac and DOSBox or Boxer. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCJVKwZcip8 for details.

Daggerfall works better with DOSBOX emulation than in any native os. I have a MacBook and run it fine with DOSBOX.

Damn! But the hassle to get things to work! *cries*
Any example of a computer that could run Daggerfall?

any computer that was a 98 computer. My old XP could because it was updated from 98 and had dos compatiablitity

DOSBox is a walk in the park compared to what it used to take.

Look into getting a DOSBox frontend, as it sounds like the command prompt is the part you're hesitant on dealing with.

Taemos is right. Getting games running in DOS was often truly painful. That kind of stuff tought a lot of kids about using computers and troubleshooting problems. Funny how people now have such a fear of typing in commands, especially when they're laid out so nicely on the web.

I once walked a guy through using XP's recovery console to repair a fried Windows install over the phone. He did quite well at it. When we were done I discovered he'd never used a computer before! Windows booted and he said "so what do I do now, click Start?" Turned out his kid was the computer user -- his curiosity fried Windows. That guy really had no problem just following some instructions on what to type in.

It's really just a question of taking the plunge. DOSbox is nice because it's pretty self contained. If you fry it you can just reinstall it. There's really no reason not to try and spend 30 minutes or so getting a game to work with it. I can't speak for front ends because I've never looked at them. At least with written instructions you also don't have to read them letter by letter too.

DOSbox is your best bet, getting a computer that can run it and trying to run it on there is much more work. http://www.uesp.net/wiki/General%3a%50laying_DOS_Installments_under_DOSBox should tell you what you need to do.

I suppose this deserves another thread, but after trying very hard, I never managed to get it working (with music).