mouse won't work inDOS

lemmings · Post by **lemmings** » Fri May 28, 2004 4:52 pm

I can't get my mouse to work while running the games lemmings in DOS mode. The game works fine with the keyboard controls but not the mouse. We are running windows 98

Post by **Wally** » Fri May 28, 2004 10:28 pm

if you have a USB mouse that is the problem

Ro@m · Post by **Ro@m** » Sat May 29, 2004 1:35 am

have you installed DOS drivers for your mouse

lemmings · Post by **lemmings** » Sat May 29, 2004 8:30 am

how do i install DOS drivers for my mouse

Ro@m · Post by **Ro@m** » Mon May 31, 2004 7:01 am

haven't you got a DOS driver for mouse diskette?

x86_Game-Junkie · Post by **x86_Game-Junkie** » Mon May 31, 2004 10:05 pm

First of all, you need to know what type of mouse you have which it could be either, PS/2, Serial or USB...Serial or PS/2 it should work in DOS without drivers, but if it's USB then you should know that it probably won't work as USB Mice and Keyboards don't have DOS drivers only Windows Drivers.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 6:20 am

x86_Game-Junkie wrote:First of all, you need to know what type of mouse you have which it could be either, PS/2, Serial or USB...Serial or PS/2 it should work in DOS without drivers, but if it's USB then you should know that it probably won't work as USB Mice and Keyboards don't have DOS drivers only Windows Drivers.

Not strictly true on either counts.

USB dos drivers exist, certain versions even detect mice/keyboards by default. Once you have such a USB driver installed (needs a config.sys edit or two), most usb mice will work fine under win9X DOS.

WinXP has a built-in mouse driver, win98 DOES NOT.

DOS PS2 mouse driver link --> http://website.lineone.net/~dwardlow/utility/mouse.zip

Should work under win98, extract the zip and run mouse.exe before running the game, or stick a link to it into your autoexec.bat file.

pyrael · Post by **pyrael** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 8:51 pm

will that driver work under DOS 6.22?

Interon · Post by **Interon** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 10:39 pm

It should work under almost any version of DOS.

Post by **emmzee** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 1:33 am

Another one you can try is CuteMouse, a recently made universal mouse driver for DOS:

Download:
http://cutemouse.sourceforge.net/program/ctmous19.zip

Homepage:
http://cutemouse.sourceforge.net/

Ro@m · Post by **Ro@m** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 6:22 am

WOW!that works i tried my new mouse on my old 20mhz comp and it works!