> Nope, unless you had some odd keyboard driver loaded. Well, throughout the years I used to have various Polish (as I'm from Poland) keyboard drivers installed, so maybe that's the point why it worked for me both ways...

sorry for two posts one after another, but I just found the solution - when using the main keypad the 255 code won't work, but when using numeric keypad with the NumLock on it does the trick. In original Dos both ways worked afaik, so maybe that's the reason fiordhraoi had problems with typing the …

I got the same problem with getting the Ultima 7 cheat/debug mode to work. I figured out that the DosBox which I got [0.63, running under Suse 10.1] doesn't support the alt+255 [or am I wrong??] and I'm almost sure that it's the reason for that weird error message, it happened also on my older …