swayye, I didn't do much downloading at 3dFiles but I loved the forums. I long ago stopped visiting forums dedicated to hardware enthusiasts (Right about when 3DFiles went down) because I got tired of playing the 3DMark game. (Heard last week that FutureMark is going to start developing games so I guess playing 3DMark won't be a joke anymore....)
Dominus,
I think once people stop trying to play DOS games in an environment outside of DOSBox and once configuration files for each DosBox game are easily provided per game then it may make sense for DOSBox to go back to a DOSBox only forum. Probably won't happen for a long time though since people are stilling playing with their Apple II/C64's and there are ALOT more PC's out there capable of playing DOS games without DOSBox.
Previously DOSBox was hosted on the sourceforge forums which sucked and there were alot of questions on those forums that had nothing to do with DOSBox. There was also a beta testers forum on a totally different website as well which while that was fine you had to go to a different forum.