As advanced as today’s gaming titles are, they just don’t have the appeal that simple games of the DOS era had. After all, who can forget the good old days of Bio Menace, Dangerous Dave and SkyRoads.
The major benefit I see in DOSBox Pure over DOSBox Classic is a sort of built-in containerization for games. DOSBox Pure creates a separate environment for each game automatically when it's "opened" ...
DOSBox-X is a cross-platform DOS emulator based on the DOSBox project (www.dosbox.com). Like DOSBox, it emulates a PC necessary for running many MS-DOS games and applications that simply cannot be run ...
I learned how to create customized boot menus in DOS batch files just to avoid needing a boot floppy for that game.