DOSBox, bad \, /, ” keys and you
I was fooling around with some old GWBasic programs and needed to use DOSBox the other day. When using DOSBox, however, I was getting bad characters for \,/,” and various other keys. This makes using DOSBox almost impossible since you cannot change directories or issue load/save commands since they need the filename in quotes. Yet the solution to this problem isn’t what you think. DOSBox provides an internal key re-mapper, but it wasn’t working right and I still couldn’t get the keys I needed mapped. Often they would just enter blank or incorrect characters.
It turns out the real culprit is a badly selected default Windows keyboard driver. Open your Windows device manager and look for the keyboards. Often you’ll see one listed as:
“MCIR 109 Keyboard”
Change this driver to “HID Compliant device”
Then restart DOSBox and it should all be working like a champ.
Here’s the thread with more detailed info
http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=18465