It's up to you really. If you have the space, $$$ and time, go for it. Nothing is quite the same as running a game on period correct hardware. Personally I use several machines for retro gaming - a 12MHz 286, a super socket 7 PC with a AMD K6-III, a 1.7GHz pentium PC and a QX6700 build for XP games …

I personally use multiple PCs. For 80's games I use a Micro8088 with a V20 cpu. For 90's DOS/Win9X games I use a Pentium III machine running Windows 98. For XP era and up I have a Core2Duo machine running XP. Finally, I have a Mac G4 tower for all classic Mac stuff. All four are plugged into a 4-way …

I just tested this and I'm glad to say it works on my Micro8088 with a V20. A little slow compared to some other menu software, but still very usable.