64mb is the maximum DOSBox can use right now. I hope myself it will be raised to at least 128mb in a future version, but 256mb would be even better.

Not sure that the memory is the reason why they run rather slowly, though. Could be simply because the emulation for newer games is very demanding.

IIRC, Original Dos was limited to 64mb. FreeDos overcame this limitation but I really don't see why you would think this would improve performance...especially if the game isn't programed to take advantage of it. About the only thing you could possibly do with the extra memory is create a RAM drive...which doesn't apply to Dosbox.

Never done performance testing on a G4 but wouldn't 25k+ Cycles be excessive? It's possible that your overcompensating which may be slowing down performance. I highly doubt that you'll get acceptable performance with Dosbox with those game. For those games on the Mac I'd go with Virtual PC, Not sure if the latest version of VPC will run on a G4 since I haven't kept up with VPC for awhile...so you want to try earlier versions.

Ok, thanks anyway. I'll just hope for extra mem usage for new version of Dosbox, and deal with the slowness, then. Or buy a cheap Windows PC or VPC7.

i would suggest reading "dosbox guides" - "how to speed up dosbox"