For oldies like me who can remember when the likes of command and conquer was released on MSdos this is an awesome way of playing the older games:

DOSBox-X (2018/02/19) is released. DOSBox-x is a branch of DOSBox v0.74. DOSBox emulates an Intel x86 PC, complete with sound, graphics, mouse, joystick, modem, etc., necessary for running many old MS-DOS games that simply cannot be run on modern PCs and operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux and FreeBSD.

DOSBox-X Changelog:
Fix CPU cycles count increment not to nag you to use
core=dynamic if a) dynamic core is not available or
b) you're already using dynamic core.
Added dynamic core back, it seems to be very stable
again.
PC-98 FM board now allows changing the base I/O port
and IRQ (interrupt) line used by the card.
PC-98 mode now supports joystick emulation. Joystick
input is mapped through the DOSBox mapper to the
PC-98 FM board where DOS games expect to see it.
Added dosbox.conf option to select which PC-98 FM
board to emulate.
Fixed PC-98 FM code to enable the ADPCM and Rhythm
FM channels.
Re-ported Neko Project II FM board emulation, this
time keeping the code intact and keeping the separate
board emulations intact for PC-98 mode.
VGA palette errors with Crystal Dream II fixed.
PC-98 FM synthesis fixed not to initialize itself
again when rebooting, which fixes a problem with
garbled FM synthesis after rebooting.

download https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x

via http://www.emucr.com/2018/02/dosbox-x-20180219.html