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

[Stefan Ring]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 5:34 PM, malc<address@hidden> wrote:
> 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?

No. I just meant that there is a way to test keyboard input in the
setup program because it would accept keyboard input if it worked. It
does not work in any of the three.