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The President is Missing (Stuck key problem)

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I'm trying to play The President is Missing which is listed as supported. Upon startup the game requires you to type the answer to two questions. This works fine. Afterwards a prompt comes up saying to press any key to continue. The game becomes stuck with whatever key was pressed. For example, if you hit the down arrow, the game forever scrolls down the menu system. No real keystrokes can get through. I saw a couple of other posts with similar issues in other games, but didn't find any solution. I've had the same results on DosBox 0.61, 0.62 and 0.63. Can anyone help?

Reply 1 of 1, by wd

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The bug is noticable even earlier, when you have to type a number
to select cga or ega, the number will appear on the question line
as well.
It's a bug in the msdos function 0x0c which is used by the game
to flush the keyboard buffer (that's why the keys are stuck after
entering the questions). Woks fine when adding the SDTIN-flush,
but i'm not sure if this can be done really compatible.

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