Nevermind. It loaded - just took a good while.
And it's really great! Loved the use of a Raycaster - very innovative!
oh, I need to do more testing under dosbox-x. it is not supposed to take too long to load into the menu screen, perhaps it is relying too heavily on the CWSDPMI swap file?
Good point - but I had it set for 16MB. Are you using more than this?
I'm not judging you. It's a jam; a mad dash to deliver a game. But might point to the culprit.
It's passing time for me to power on my 486 back again here :D