blueskirt42: It's simple really. Basically, you copy the folder of an old DOS game in the Dosbox folder, then you drag and drop the game folder on the Dosbox.exe icon. You will be greeted with a black DOS looking kind of window where the typical DOS commands (CD <folder>, CD.., DIR/P, etc) will work and where you can type the name of a .exe or .bat to launch it, if you're familiar with DOS, this will be super easy, but if you never used DOS before, this might be your biggest hurdle in learning how to use Dosbox.
Other than that, useful keyboard shortcuts are:
CTRL+F12 increases the CPU speed (when a game requires more juice to run fast and smoothly, typically ~8000 cycles is an optimal number)
CTRL+F11 decreases the CPU speed (when a game has timer issues because the CPU is too fast, notably old Sierra point and click adventure games)
ALT+ENTER toggles between fullscreen and windowed modes
And typing EXIT in the DOS prompt will close the program.
Running "DOSBox 0.74 Options.bat" beforehand allows you to tweak many things, it might look scary but in the ten years I've used Dosbox, the only thing I messed in the config was the scaler, aspect ratio and the screen resolution options when I switched to a widescreen monitor.
Dosbox only gets complicated when you attempt to run or install old games that requires a CD to install or play, as these requires a couple of commands to mount a folder as if it was a CD, or when you attempt to run or install through DOS old Windows games.
Lol, it does sound easy when you put it that way. Will see how I go. Thanks again!