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First post, by F2bnp

Posted on 2013-08-29, 10:44

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I'm having a crazy problem here, I've never run into this before. So, let's say I want to mount my hard drive. I type:

mount C C:\

Well, as of today I guess, when I try to type that I get this:

mount C C:]

This doesn't happen outside of DOSBox of course and I even tried bringing the on-screen keyboard and got the same result. Also, some other keys like , . ' = simply won't work inside DOSBox, nothing happens.
This is on Windows 8. Any ideas?

Reply 1 of 3, by mr_bigmouth_502

Posted on 2013-08-29, 10:53

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DosBox has a problem with those specific keys that I believe can be traced back to SDL. There's no real way of getting around it other than using the onscreen keyboard. If you're on a laptop and you have an external keyboard attached though, you could try using the internal keyboard. This is a major problem for me on my Alienware laptop since I fried the internal keyboard and am forced to use an external usb one.

Reply 2 of 3, by NY00123

Posted on 2013-08-29, 11:00

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Aren't there a few solutions/workarounds found in this board, one of them being SDL_VIDEODRIVER=windib?

Reply 3 of 3, by F2bnp

Posted on 2013-08-29, 11:03

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Even using the on-screen keyboard didn't change things though!

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