Ok, I'm going to kill this thread once and for all. I believe, due to the fact that most of us are running Windows Vista, that it has to do something with the DOSBox's kyeboard function interaction with Vista. I'm guessing that nothing can fix it unless either an update from the DOSBox authors fix …

Don't do that. First of all you have to make the US layout working, as everything relies on this. Search the forum for windib and try some older sdl.dll I tried older SDL files from 0.65 and 0.71. 0.71 is unchanged, but 0.65 won't work with 0.72, since it has some classes missing.

I've had pretty much the same problem as well. I have an Acer Aspire 5920G laptop (with the 437 US keycode layout), running Windows Vista Home Premium and DOSBox 7.2. One thing I will add about the mapper is that the default mapper configuration has ' [ ] and \ bound to the exact keys, but when I …