I've run the original through DosBox before. There's a version called DosBox Turbo that has better performance, but costs a dollar or two. I haven't used it in over a year, but the last version was difficult to set up the controls for. I'm not sure what they changed with in the updates, but I wasn't having the same problem a few years previously.

If you have decent hardware, the original Dosbox might run just fine.