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wu_trax · 16 Mar 2003, 19:48

for ms dos for my MS intelli Explorer mouse

can anyone help me? somehow nothing seems to work
im running windows XP but my mouse is not available from within an msdos program

BesigedB · 16 Mar 2003, 19:49

linux too (if poss)

Doogle · 16 Mar 2003, 19:49

Have you got a mouse car?

Starbucks · 16 Mar 2003, 20:02

according to the website

http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouse/ie_req.asp

it no work in DOS

for linux try Google

wu_trax · 16 Mar 2003, 20:25

it worked once a while ago, now i dont remember how

wu_trax · 17 Mar 2003, 13:32

is there any default-driver that works with every mouse? the keyboard doesnt work neither, really strange

meglamaniac · 17 Mar 2003, 13:53

Pretty much any PS2 mouse, no matter how many buttons/wheels/heat-sensitive-motion-detectors it has on it, will work as a 'normal' (ie up down left right and 2 buttons) mouse so any generic driver can be used for it which is fine for dos since when the last dos-only program was made a 3 button mouse was the height of technology and a scroll-wheel was a distant dream.

If it's USB then you're more into the realm of luck. If your BIOS supports Legacy USB (which basicly means making a USB keyboard and/or mouse appear to the system as if they were connected via PS2) then enable it and the mouse should work in dos with a generic driver (it can't be that hard to find a copy of Microsoft's one, mouse.com).

[edit]
If you're trying this in a windows 'dos box' (or in the case of 2k/XP, using NTVDM, the dos emulator Microsoft supplied), then the mouse should work if it works in windows (the driver is linked somehow).

wu_trax · 17 Mar 2003, 14:00

keyboard and mouse are both usb, but i put them on the ps/2-thingy. i guess the problem is something else: there is some sound-setup-program for the game i want to play. in that program everything works fine. but in the real installation program nothing works :/
i think ill just give up

Kumnaa · 17 Mar 2003, 14:18

unless your machine is quite old, chances are that the dos program will run at 1000000mph. I cant play Theme Park anymore

Tietäjä · 17 Mar 2003, 14:23

I have an old MS-dos mouse driver (it's no IntelliMouse Xplorer driver, but it has worked on my IME), originating to my 486er (wich hasn't existed in ages).

I have no clue how to transport it to you though. And Kumnaa's point is valid.

wu_trax · 17 Mar 2003, 14:27

Quote:

Originally posted by Kumnaa
unless your machine is quite old, chances are that the dos program will run at 1000000mph. I cant play Theme Park anymore

i have a program to slow it down. its called 'turbo' maybe you can find it somewhere it worked perfectly, but now i dont even get that far

wu_trax · 17 Mar 2003, 14:28

Quote:

Originally posted by Tietäjä
I have an old MS-dos mouse driver (it's no IntelliMouse Xplorer driver, but it has worked on my IME), originating to my 486er (wich hasn't existed in ages).

I have no clue how to transport it to you though. And Kumnaa's point is valid.

i found that mouse.com-file somewhere on the web, still doesnt work. i guess no more winning ww2 for me

Starbucks · 17 Mar 2003, 14:31

ok

well if a standard MS Dos Generic Mouse Driver will work

Then do this

im assuming your shelling into dos which means you must do this manually (joy)

1. download Cutemouse
2. when in dos type C:\mouse\mouse.com /sys C:\mouse\mouse.sys

If i remember rightly, as you cant load a config.sys or similar

any problems ask, and i ight be bothered to do it myself

and if your running a dos game from windows, it should wourk as the dos EMU puts that in, it could be something with the game, what is it?

wu_trax · 17 Mar 2003, 14:55

tryed, doesnt work

the game is 'panzer general', i felt like war games right now