...says Mr. "I can guess your gender from the way you're posting" DosFreak (:
Zup: that post made my day (;
My guess would be: as DOS was used in a time when the IT business (and anything related) was not as "sexy" as today (in terms of number of jobs, salary, or general interest), and gaming was not as accepted as is it nowadays (it's hard to ignore a multi-billion industry, after all), most users of that OS were male. It's a fact that "techie-related" stuff is (or was) dominated by men - don't ask me why. Of course there were women in IT jobs (i met a few back in the day), or women interested in gaming, but they were few and far between.
If that's valid, then the logical conclusion has to be that the majority of DOSBox users are male, too. I mean, playing the games you used to play when you were young is the main reason to use emulators, isn't it? Why would anyone go though the hassle of installing and configuring an old DOS game? DOSBox makes it very easy, but it's still much more complicated than playing a Windows game, or a game on a console/handheld. Windows 95 kinda opened up gaming for a much larger audience (including non-techies), which is IMHO one if Bill Gates' biggest achievements, whether you like him and his company, or not.