So, it's like Ralf Brown's Interrupt List, which I'm sure everyone here's seen, only a touch more in depth (perhaps), and not free? Posh. 😉

Congrats! You might want to open a new topic - I've only compiled and written a wrapper for DOSBox in the past - I have no knowledge of that game.

Yes. 1.2.4 is broken. Horribly so. 1.2.6 should compile 'as is' for the most part 'out of the box' for you. Make sure that you remember wether or not you have X11 installed, and want to support it; --disable-x11 or enable, et al. 1.2.6 should clear up that joystick problem. 😀

What revision of SDL are you linking to? The one in fink is horribly out of date and always causes issues. 1.2.6 works, and no longer kills the keyboard if the SDL application doesn't have the full focus. 😉