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I'm terribly stuck in this game due to a kind of glitch that I've never encountered in a game before.

If I put a rock at my feet, I simply cannot target it... the mouse cursor turns into the "walk backwards" pointer instead. I have gotten by this issue on most occasions, by approaching the item from a different direction so that I can successfully target it. I'm in the Urbish Mines now, though, and need coal for the machine in order to drain water from a flooded stairway. I use the pickaxe on the cave wall so that the coal comes off, but its simply impossible to pick any of it up as it lies in a dead-end, so that I cannot approach from other directions.

What causes the problem I'm having the the navigation cursors? It was never a problem when I played the game a few years ago.

I'm playing through DOSBox.