My # key isn't working in Might and Magic 1, which prevents me from playing the game.

I've tried changing the keyboard layout in the doxbox configuration but it still doesn't seem to work.

Any advice would be welcome in fixing this issue.

As far as I know, you don't need the # key at all to play MM1 or MM2.

When the game tells you to press #, it is telling you to press the number key (of the corresponding town, so I believe Scorpigal is #1 in MM1 and where you'd want to start), not to literally press the key with a number sign.

(It seems that this is a common issue.)

So, try pressing the "1" key instead.

and try "CTRL - 1" to select character 1

Thank you for the help. I forgot with this classic games that the manual is super important.

In fairness, the developers should probably not have put the # key in quotation marks.