First post, by Neville
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- Oldbie
Here's a request: I am a foreign (Spanish) user of DOSBox and I have lots of problems running MicroProse simulators under DOSBox, like F-15 Strike Eagle III or GunShip 2000, and they are currently unplayable because some vital keys won't work.
The funny thing is that emulation is fine, but these old MicroProse sims required foreign users like me to load the DOS US Keyboard controller before playing. This was achieved typing "KEYB US" before playing.
For most of my old MicroProse sims, I created batch files like the following:
@ECHO OFF
KEYB US
F15III.COM
KEYB SP
in order to run them properly. However, this batch files won't work under DOSBox because its COMMAND.COM doesn't support (yet) the KEYB command. Could you add it in the near future? I don't think it would be much trouble, and it would fix the MicroProse sims for all non-us users.
I have tried switching the Windows keyboard controllers, but it won't work. I still have my old DOS 6.22 disks, so meanwhile I think I can solve the problem by copying the KEYBRD.SYS and KEYB.COM DOS files into the game folder. Still, it would be great if the KEYB command was included in the next releases of DOSBox.