I saw many complaints by people having the same problem with PoP2 under DOSBox - on this forum, as well as the comments under the PoP2 entry in the 'Games' section of the DOSBox homepage. The game itself never had this problem on its own, as far as I can remember.

This is in regards to the now-famous problem of the ALT/CTRL function keys occasionally stopping to function in POP2. For the past few days, I've been playing this with a friend under DOSBox 0.63, and it looks like we have discovered some specific instances that trigger this problem (this is after a …