you did a right click on the game and selected run with and searched dosbox from the list ?

(if you didn't, DON'T DO IT)

no, I didn't do that. I opened dosbox and mounted the folder to c and then ran the game from inside the program

well then you did it alright.
DOSBox should not cause that kind of behaviour that you report.

For sound you probably have to run install.exe or setup.exe that comes with the game.

Where did you get dosbox from?

so could it have been the game folder? Is there an official site to download games from, because I just did a google search.
As for sound, when I ran the game it gave me 3 options for sound support. I tried all of these but to no avail. There was only 1 exe file in the folder which was the game itself. Thanks for your quick responses by the way 😀

@wd - the DOSBox website 😀

PandaMan96 wrote:

Is there an official site to download games from

yes

Oh yeah, sorry I should have looked under the 'links' section on the dosbox website. Thanks. 😀
But I can't find the game I want in any of the 3 links... 😖

And you didn't have something lying on your keyboard pressing the ctrl key or the like? Maybe a key is stuck?

no I'm pretty sure there were no keys stuck or anything. One possible thing worthy of noting is I used the windows key (the one that opens the start menu in windows) to exit the dosbox window.

Shift + click on link is open in new window
Shift + click on icon is select multiple icons

It is possible that SDL "lost" a release keystroke. It has been known to happen in some circumstances. It's consistent with the behavior you describe (the system thinks something like Shift is held down, because for whatever reason SDL missed the event when you stopped holding it from the game).

This is not a general problem with Dosbox, so you can assure your Dad that it is safe to at least test again. An easy way to test it is to run Dosbox but don't bother with a game, just type a bit in the Dosbox window, switch windows around and make sure everything is working correctly.

-Frob

Yes you can point your dad to this thread. First thing I'd try would be re-installing dosbox
(from the official homepage), then start dosbox, exit it, and check your system.
At this point everything should run plain as usual, if not please report back.

Ok thanks for the help guys. I'll let you know how it goes. 😀

Ok well I have it up and running again. I tried without a game first and it was fine and now I'm running a game and it's still fine. I also got the sound working (kind of). Thanks for all your help 😀

Greetings to your dad.