when you pay for a dos game on gog.com you are paying for the game and the labor involved with insuring that the dosbox config files will run the game the same way it would have ran on the computers they were made for. instead of having to download dosbox yourself and trouble shooting it yourself. before buying some of the old games required paying large amounts of cash on ebay and hoping it was on a disk format you still had a drive for. here you can get the game and it will behave like it was any other windows program. also novice users can more easly experence the games without the fun of configuring a real ms-dos computer.

DOSBox lets me play... well pretty much every game I have from GoG.com that doesn't use ScummVM. In addition, it allows me to play the Steam versions of the DOS Doom and X-Com games AND the freeware game Castle Adventure for DOS.
I love DOSBox and hope Steam has more deals for making more classic games downloadable to the masses on GoG.com!
Although, I've only had one problem with DOSBox and it was getting DOSBox to recognize my Logitech Precision Gamepad. Earthworm Jim 1 & 2 are hard with keyboard controls!

Did you ask for help on their forums? I've gotten help from there in the past.

Well, it does recognize it, it's just unplayable... I'll ask the DOSBox Forums though.

wow... that brings back memories.. sound cards and memory managers were evil to configure.
With Dosbox( ;-) ) we have a pretty solid way to run dos games on modern computers... the problem now seems to be early windows games with 3d graphics. almost all the problems people have had with gog games have related to running those kind of games on modern hardware.
Are there any virtual machines that deal with 3d graphics?
Thanks dosbox guys.

It was because of DOSbox that I was able to retire the old clunking PC I used as an actual DOS machine. Fun running that PC, but it was getting hard to maintain and source parts (If I'm going real dos, I'm going all the way back).
Thankfully, this neat little program saves on repairs, energy and fussing around with settings and boot disks. Big thanks to the team behind it.

I wish to have babies with DOSBox...that's how awesome it is!

Damn those physicists! Is there anything they cannot do?

Now all we need WinBox to emulate pre Windows Vista operating systems and hardware...
Any takers? ;) :P

Kudos to the DOSBOX.

From what I read VMware supports accelerated graphics. I've yet to try it myself, but will do so once my copy for work arrives.
You're able to download a 30 day trial once you hand over your birth certificate (jesting, but that's what looking at their trial signup form felt like).

DOSBox supporter here since unsuspected times :-P
This emulator will never stop amazing me for its performances. And if you look at the comparison I've just posted between version 0.72 and 0.73 features and progresses within the hardware/software subsystems emulation you can't possibly deny that DOSBox will continue to improve beyond its original raison d'etre... Who said a optimal Windows 9x emulation? I bet on it, after all the first Windows are just dos with a nice GUI over it, hence I don't even see the need to change the emulator's name :-P

If you guys have an affiliate spotlight, can you also get a starving child spotlight?
Anyway, DOSBox is awesome.

ReactOS (http://www.reactos.org/) could be go in this direction. They want to rebuild WinXP, maybe the step to an emulator isn't so far.

As I said back then, It's great to have you guys around providing this amazing piece of software. Great job!
It's nice to see the GOG team finally placing you in the front page too, in recognition of your hard work :-)
Cheers!