My computer is fast enough for dosbox, so I tend not to notice. It’s not that the program is slow, but it requires some juice to run later games (when I say Larry 7 I mean that it runs flawlessly speed and sound)
As for fiddly….? If you ever tinkered with the real dos then its not much different. Its also much easier than attempting to install windows 98 on a new pc and messing with sound card drivers and the like.
This program makes things MUCH easier:
http://members.home.nl/mabus/
I have all my games in a list and it requires no tweaking to add more games. One day I’m going to burn all these to a DVD so that I never have to setup my dos classics again! 🙂