Confirmed. In-game mouse is working. Keyboard isn't.

So THATS why I couldn't skip the intro, I just assumed I was doing something wrong when I tested it. 😮

They have a buggy keyboard handler, and just were lucky that it worked
with most bioses.

Attached are fixed (not completely as there was not enough space
and i didn't want to bother too much with it) files, each one with
one byte patched.

Many thanks. 😉

Probably a few weeks too late to say this, but thanks! Probably should put some kind of note about that on the game directory on the sourceforge dosbox site; someone else was asking about the keyboard also. Of course, I got confused at first and thought I was supposed to run the game only from what you gave me, rather than (correctly) copying the files into the actual folder to replace the faulty ones.

Only complaint I have is that I still seem unable to skip through the beginning bit, but I can save, which is more important.

Hitting space does it for me.

Yeah, you're right, it does; I just figured that out (previously I just pressed some random buttons and nothing happened, but apparently space works). I was actually coming here to mention that when I saw your message.