First post, by BeginnerGuy
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So I've noticed that no matter what 16-bit DOS application I run through windows 98 SE, pressing the F1 key will cause it to crash to desktop with an unhandled exception. It hasn't really bothered me much with the games I play but now I'm trying to do some actual work (In MS-DOS mode) using Voyetra SPG and it seems the f1 key causes the screen to scroll away leaving artifacted text and smiley faces on the screen, essentially causing a lockup requiring a restart. The same thing happens with edlib. So this issue is happening in both windows and DOS mode. Strangely, games do not crash or have any symptoms in dos mode, so it seems to stick to text mode applications.
In fact testing a little further, it even happens if I simply boot into dos mode and press F1 right at the text prompt. I've just changed out to a different keyboard and the symptom persists, it's making it extremely difficult to work because once it happens, there is no way to get back and save 😢 ..
Has anybody seen this before? It's as if a script is trying to run if I hit F1..
Boot into DOS mode:
Press F1:
Hit it in SPG: (This one isn't so bad and it stays usable)
...But other times it will do this..
System was just clean installed the other day, DOS mode set up using Phils guide for mouse and cd-rom support in dos mode. Besides installing the Awe32 my autoexec and config are essentially untouched.
Surely this isn't normal? I may try to just install MS-DOS 6.22 to a separate drive to use voyetra with and see if that stops it for now. I didn't want to have to run straight DOS until my socket 3 rig is ready.
Btw these are standard US 104 key (includes windows key) keyboards I'm using, if that matters.
Sup. I like computers. Are you a computer?