ok, so my mingw version works fine. the only thing I did which is maybe different from the release one is to enable unicode (make -f mingwin32.mak WIDE=Y) for PDCurses. Maybe pdcurses or x-compiling with curses isn't working ok for the windows releases?

Have this too, with KeyMaestro P2360 on win32 xp and dosbox 0.73 A diff of the original mapper file and keys that are not remembered shows the extra keys are all recorded as 'key 0'. keys work ok in dosbox when they are bound. Can test/verify fixes or custom builds. Have some mingw/win32 building …