Works fine here.

wait wait wait wait. What?

no no this is a problem I'M having.
And I don't know how to fix it.

I tried to reproduce your problem, but it works plain fine here.

I am confused.

Pretty much, I didn't mess with the settings at all. I've installed 2 different copies of DosBox on this computer (uninstalling the other first, of course).

It gets to Opening MIDI

then I can't type anything or do anything at all in either window.

So you are absolutely sure that the up-to-now only relevant information (you installed "it" on 2 nobody-knows-how-they-look-like PCs)
is enough to give you any hints? Do you expect some "please use the secret do-not-crash-on-startup switch" reply?

yeah kinda. I'm not too technoligically savvy?

If it helps, it's a laptop running windows 7 with an intel core inside and I have working MIDI, I know that.
It was DOXBox. The latest version. I also tried the portable version.

I cannot find the older versions in case those work.

I was kinda more hoping that someone would have had this problem before.
Or that you'd know what it was getting frozen on so I could investigate further.

update all drivers

All of them?

Because I had HUGE PROBLEMS with my sound card until I rolled it back. And then windows downloaded an update and then I had to reformat my computer because it froze everything. Ah well. I'll give it a go.

Thanks for being helpful.

well, that sounds like your problem is your audio driver...

At least we know you're using windows now, and installed some sort of new version of dosbox.

well it's installing a whole whackadoo of updates right now. Let's see what happens.

Still not working.
Here's a screenshot.

http://i.imgur.com/15xoL.png

Okay I went and fixed it on my own.

Haha.

All I had to do was change the drawing type to OpenGL

I really, really, REALLY wish you mentioned that this could be a problem. Then I wouldn't have had to wait while it downloaded a bajillion updates that I don't want.

Anyway it doesn't hurt to have everything up to date, doesn't it?

Glad to hear you sorted out your issue...

So that would be a problem with your graphics card/drivers.

Actually, having everything up to date was what blew up my computer last time.