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    dosbox oddity

    Discussion in 'Alienware M15x' started by ASCI_Blue, Aug 6, 2011.

  1. ASCI_Blue

    ASCI_Blue Notebook Consultant

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    Any M15 users have DOSbox not recognize keystrokes but Windows does? I'm trying to do some old gaming but dosbox doesn't read the :, \, and a few other keys in that general area. Running dosbox .74.
     
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    just got done playing with that, still the same problem.

    does the same thing with the onscreen keyboard too. this is weird, I used dosbox years ago without this kind of problem.
     
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    Sounds like a Windows 7 issue.
     
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    Could be something grumpy between 7 and dosbox, used the alt code to work around it so I could install ultima 8 then get it loaded into pentagram so it finally worked out.
     
    ASCI_Blue, Aug 6, 2011
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