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Keyboard ctrl-alt-shift commands not working

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First post, by Guest

Posted on 2004-03-23, 08:22

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the keyboard seems to work inconsistently in particular with keyboard combos such as ctrl- alt- or shift- keystrokes in a game. The keystrokes might work, but after playing for a few seconds, (or maybe minutes) they stop working. e.g. in prince of persia 2, alt-l to load a game or the combo for quitting works at first, but after a while, all key combos like this stop working. this occurs in dosbox (i am using 0.61). Any help is appreciated.

Reply 1 of 9, by Guest

Posted on 2004-05-14, 02:57

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I am having the same prob.
Well... is there any advice on this???

Reply 2 of 9, by Guest

Posted on 2004-05-17, 16:19

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I have a similar issue.
In prince2, if you start the game with "prince makinit", then just keeping the left arrow pressed for a shor time, will reduce all your health. Short taps on the left arrow are ok.

Reply 3 of 9, by Guest

Posted on 2004-12-04, 22:10

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Same for me.

E.g. Ctrl+O works fine first, but after pressing Ctrl and Shift a few times it doesn't work anymore.

DOSBox 6.1
SuSe Linux
Prince of Persia 2 (CD-Collection)

Reply 4 of 9, by robertmo

Posted on 2004-12-04, 22:15

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Hint: DOSBox 0.63

Reply 5 of 9, by Guest

Posted on 2004-12-04, 22:49

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The SuSE-rpm, i installed, had still v6.1.

But I compiled me a new version and now it works fine. Thx. 😀

Reply 6 of 9, by mirekluza

Posted on 2004-12-05, 09:36

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Just to clarify: reading the above mentioned it seemed to be only a game specific problem in Prince of Persia 2 (possibly fixed(?) in 0.63 - I did not test it myself)

Mirek

Reply 7 of 9, by HomeBix

Posted on 2004-12-05, 11:07

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not game specificly. the keyboard itself got improved a lot since 0.61
there weren't many changes between 0.62-0.63 though

Reply 8 of 9, by mirekluza

Posted on 2004-12-05, 17:17

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HomeBix wrote:
not game specificly

Which other games/programs have this problem?

Mirek

Reply 9 of 9, by Peter Swinkels

Posted on 2006-05-27, 15:16

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I have been having similair problems in DOSBox 0.65. Prince of Persia II doesn't work properly when started with the "makinit" command line option (which starts the game in cheater/trainer mode.) One of the things that happen is that the prince looses all of his health when trying to move to the left.

EDIT: Solved.

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