Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0 of 1] Fix for DOS keyboard problems

[malc]

On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Stefan Ring wrote:

> > There's other DOS application that exhibits erroneous keyboard
> > beahviour and i was curious whether your hack "fixes" it too (alas
> > it doesn't) - Command and Conquer, the demo can be found at:
> >
> > http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/command-and-conquer/
> >
> > Keyboard is dysfunctional in both the setup and the game. What i'm
> > wondering now if this is a indeed pckbd or BIOS problem, but Bochs
> > where the former can be verified refuses to work on my machines,
> > perhaps someone could give it a try and report here?
> 
> I just tried to run C&C on QEMU, VirtualBox and Bochs. Unfortunately,
> the game itself crashed immediately during startup, but the setup
> program worked. It also accepts keyboard input for specifying sound
> hardware parameters. The results:

I'm confused. Should the above be interpreted as: keyboard works in
setup under Bochs, or?

> 
> QEMU: mouse works, keyboard does not, keyboard input is buffered and
> played back at the command prompt after program exits.
> VirtualBox: the same
> Bochs: neither keyboard nor mouse work
> 

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