My "\" key is not working correctly with DoSBox.

Post » Wed Nov 30, 2011 12:52 pm

I have a very strange problem right now. Whenever I try to type in the codes to get Daggerfall to work with DOSBox like "mount c c:\dosgames -freesize 1000." my "\" key does not work, instead it types the "]" character.

Please help me people of Elder Scrolls Forums.
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Sunnii Bebiieh
 
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Post » Thu Dec 01, 2011 12:48 am

Try all the other non-alphabetic keys with and without shift and see if any of them type \

If that doesn't work, try using the builtin keymapper (CTRL+F1) to assign \ to a new key.
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Post » Wed Nov 30, 2011 7:30 pm

I have a very strange problem right now. Whenever I try to type in the codes to get Daggerfall to work with DOSBox like "mount c c:\dosgames -freesize 1000." my "\" key does not work, instead it types the "]" character.

Please help me people of Elder Scrolls Forums.


Mine did that, too --- I mean in Dosbox when I typed : I would get like / or something.

I think this is because Dosbox is set up to automatically use the US Keyboard layout? by default?

There should be a way around this....

I think you can download a file that translated Dosbox to your language; I downloaded the translation for Danish language and haven't had any problems since then.

If this doesn't work, I think youi can change the language in Dosbox..there should be an option to open a file with notepad and write: language=Danish (or Swedish)
instead of language=English (or US).

You can probably also try to remap your keyboard though I don't quite know this is done...

On my keyboard (Danish) in ordet get to the \ key I need to hold down the ALT GR key and then press the \ key nearly at the same time.

You can always try with / instead. Sometimes this will work as well...
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Post » Wed Nov 30, 2011 10:53 pm

Thanks guys for the replies, it works now.
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