As for sound, do you know that DOSBox 0.70 defaults to core=auto and cycles=auto? You may need to override those values for certain games.

As for keyboard, I haven't had any problems so far (knock on wood).

I'm using DBGL for which I've modified my templates to set a specific core and cycle count. Core is always normal except for anything that goes over 18000 cycles a second where I use dynamic because my poor ickle Athlon 2400 can't handle anything above that - but using both core types I get the same problem. Cycles similar - although for some more demanding games I set it to max where the sound lag gets worse. Being a largely untested feature this is only to be expected.

I might give the more recent CVS build a try and see if that helps.

Well I've just tested the CVS from 25th March and it happens there too. If anyone has a game that uses the Miles Sound System configuration program (the popular one with the purple and blue windows on a grey background; there's load of them that use it) - please test it with 0.70 and the Daum Café build and let me know if you also have problems with it.

BTW, the Daum Café builds report two false positives on some virus scanners, zlib1.dll reports being a Trojan (wherever I download it from, it reports that) and 3dfxSpl2.dll is judged to be a virus from results of heuristic tests.

but its still a couple of bugs that seem to have been introduced
into the codebase. Is this known?

Yes, of course this is known, somebody has to code those bugs in the end.
Use 0.65 if that works better for you.

zlib1.dll reports being a Trojan (wherever I download it from, it reports that) and 3dfxSpl2.dll is judged to be a virus from results of heuristic tests

That's wrong. The dlls are packed by ASPack or UPX (exe compressor), and some scanners make a wrong diagnosis because of that. Try another antivirus software.

That's what I meant by false positive. In any case I've been using zlib1.dll with other programs and the problem only came up today so it's to do with the current virus def file.

Which virus scanner? (i'm rather sure it's a false positive but didn't test it)

About speed: did you go through the troubleshoot section of the readme?
If everything in there didn't help change the SDL_VIDEODRIVER env var
and play with the priority values of dosbox.conf

The issue with the Miles config programs has been discussed here and there these latest weeks. It's really annoying, but it has a workaround: they don't crash if you use MOUSE ONLY to select the correct options.

About sound stuttering, I haven't found such a problem in the Windows build.

I have - like I alread wrote in another thread.

Problem is, that automatic cycle setting don't work for me very well, but with manual setting the problems like audio stuttering stop.

Which virus scanner? (i'm rather sure it's a false positive but didn't test it)

Avira AntiVir - I've been selecting ignore for it and don't seem to be suffering any problems thus far.