OS? Latest dosbox version you tried?
Played with the xms/ems settings in your dosbox.conf?

OS: XP Pro
Dosbox: 0.70, and 0.72
XMS config: Not yet
EMS: Not yet

Did manage to find out, if you press a magic sequence of scroll lock, pause/break, and num lock, the mouse /sort/ of works. (

XP Pro, DOSBox 0.72 (first try 0.65). Mouse problem, game unplayable. The odd scroll/pause/num-pressing makes no difference here. 🙁

First problem is that the game hangs during intro at "K'kistik forces..." etc, which can be skipped by pressing ESC. The second is the mouse. I can get it to show if I slow DOSBox down to 1% and enter my call sign, but after that the cursor won't show, or if I managed to make it show by adjusting the speed up and down the game hangs anyway as soon as I click.

Has anyone gotten it to work?

(Btw, DOSBox won't record the music with ctrl-alt-f8 either in Strike Force or Tegel's Mercenaries. Maybe I missed something, or is it the games?)

Ctrl-alt-f8 records MIDI. If the game music is OPL (adlib, sound blaster) or digital audio (gus, sound blaster), it won't be recorded with Ctrl-alt-f8. Ctrl-alt-f7 records OPL commands (you can play them back later with adplug for example) and ctrl-f6 records digital audio (including synthesized OPL).

edit: ctrl-f8 -> ctrl-f6 (doh!)

ctrl-f8 should record both digital audio as well as opl synthesized sound, just midi music is missing.

Thanks for the help with recording the music! 😊