If you still have and use a G3-based Macintosh and are looking for an optimized version of DOSBox, look no further. Marcus Herbert has put together an “Inofficial DOSBox build for G3 Macs“.
Quoting Marcus:
Unfortunately the official 0.70 build of DOSBox for OSX has all kind of compiler switches set to juice the most performance [...]

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Just a quick note about DOSBox (a DOS emulator for Mac OS X). According to a thread at VOGONS (official forums for DOSBox), they are working on making DOSBox perform much better on Intel-based Macs (it’s not too shabby as it is, but there are a few issues still remaining). It sounds [...]

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macosxhints.com has published a review of DOSBox for Mac OS X. DOSBox is a DOS environment that runs under Mac OS X (as well as several other OSes), and is primarily used to play old DOS-based computer games.
Macosxhints.com listed it as their Pick of the Week for August 28, and the reviewer mentions what [...]

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Cocoon Wrapper for DOSBox version 1.0b004 has been released. It can be downloaded here.
Cocoon Wrapper for DOSBox is exactly what it sounds like - a wrapper for DOSBox, which is an emulated DOS environment (most people use it to play old DOS-based games).

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