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Keys are acting Funny : is ; and \ is ]

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First post, by TheGreatEggFly

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Description: as the title says, the colon key is reading in DOSBox as ; and the \ is reading as ]
Reproducibility: always
Steps already attempted: (using laptop) external keyboard, restarted, reopened, tested different keys, tried holding and not holding shift down.

Yes, this is my first time using it.

Motherboard: Acer Aspire 6920
Processor type and speed: INTEL Core 2 Duo T7500 2.20GHz
Amount and type of RAM: 3gb
Video board w/ RAM amount and type: NVIDIA GeForce 9500m GS
Operating system: Windows 7
Game name (and version, if applicable): Theme Hospital

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Reply 2 of 5, by eL_PuSHeR

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TheGreatEggFly:

Just a sidenote. I don't know what software you used to save your PNG attachment. Check its compression settings. I was able to reduce filesize from 48,78 KB to 27,7 KB.

Regards.

Reply 3 of 5, by Gamecollector

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Problems with HP laptop keyboard mapping
Windows7 is sooo Windows7...

Asus P4P800 SE/Pentium4 3.2E/2 Gb DDR400B,
Radeon HD3850 Agp (Sapphire), Catalyst 14.4 (XpProSp3).
Voodoo2 12 MB SLI, Win2k drivers 1.02.00 (XpProSp3).

Reply 4 of 5, by ADDiCT

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I fail to see the relevance of your post, Gamecollector. The post you've linked to is about Vista, which had a known problem with some keyboard types. With a bit of reading you would have noticed that the OP's OS is Windows 7, which doesn't have known keyboard problems (at least none that I'm aware of). Furthermore, I wouldn't want to do the kind of fix described on the linked thread, but that's maybe just me. Copying/moving around system files is basically asking for trouble. Can't help with the actual problem though, never experienced such effects on my notebook with external keyboard. Tried different "keyb xx" commands in DOSBox yet?

Reply 5 of 5, by Gamecollector

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You need to replace japanese keyboard driver (106/109 key) with standard HID driver.
Vista or Win7 - no matter... The source of this trouble is similar.

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