Well, here are more screenshots, for your viewing pleasure ::) I tried with xms=false, and system shock gave an error of not enough extended ram. I tried with loadfix, and it just allocated 64kb. Fortunately, the color palette goes back to normal after a few seconds. Maybe it's a bug in dosbox?

Hey, I would like to know too, if there's a way to change control keys in system shock, and to speed movement up, using the arrow keys is annoying to move around, and my movement is too slow.

thanks

Try reinstalling the game within dosbox.
Oh and there are more things in dosbox.conf to fiddle with, like ems,
the core etc.

ok, could I try those commands with a dosbox frontend, or do i have to do it manually?

I prefer to install games manually. Keep it simple, that is create some empty
directory (say c:\oldstuff) and mount that as harddrive ("mount c c:\oldstuff").
Then the cdrom (something like "mount d k:\ -t cdrom -ioctl -label XYZ") if
K is your cdrom.

OK, which settings should I use with core, ems , etc?
Hwy, does someone know if there was some kind of editor for system shock 1 too?