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I landed on Helen in Troy, traded at the Commodity Exchange, accepted some combat missions, saved my game. Launched to find Helen under attack by a pair of those weak Kilrathi ships. Go to engage, turns out I forgot to rearm my missile launchers. ALT+X to quit, re-launch the game, load my save.

This is where the trouble begins. Now, every interaction available from the launchpad opens the computer. I can't go to the concourse, and I can't launch my ship. Using either my joystick or the enter key on the keyboard, trying to do those two actions just opens the computer menu.

So what can I do? I only have the one save to experiment on. Should have kept more than one I guess.
This question / problem has been solved by Sidewinderimage
I don't think it's the savegame, but dosbox or the game itself. I have this problem also. I'm pretty sure you will be able to load after you reboot your computer, but you shouldn't have to do that. Try just exiting and don't start a new game for a few minutes. It seems to work for me.

To go to another screen, for example launch the ship, try clicking on 'launch' and 'esc' very fast to exit the computer. Eventually the ship will launch, but you have to do that everywhere so you want to exit the game and come back.
Simply quit DOSBOX and try it again. Been having this issue myself and it always fixees on a second load.
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Harvest: I landed on Helen in Troy, traded at the Commodity Exchange, accepted some combat missions, saved my game. Launched to find Helen under attack by a pair of those weak Kilrathi ships. Go to engage, turns out I forgot to rearm my missile launchers. ALT+X to quit, re-launch the game, load my save.

This is where the trouble begins. Now, every interaction available from the launchpad opens the computer. I can't go to the concourse, and I can't launch my ship. Using either my joystick or the enter key on the keyboard, trying to do those two actions just opens the computer menu.

So what can I do? I only have the one save to experiment on. Should have kept more than one I guess.
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Harvest: Now, every interaction available from the launchpad opens the computer. I can't go to the concourse, and I can't launch my ship.
I had similar situation on New Detroit - when I tried to launch my ship then Quine was opened. Hopefully click with Right Mouse Button helped with this (instead of LMB).

BTW I never played Priv with mouse before but I've found it much better then keyboard or joystick (Ligitech Wingman Attack 2). Because of "dead zone", you know...
This happens to me occasionally. Right-click once, and then it should work normally.