loading mouse driver in dos mode

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• profdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio

  January 2006 edited January 2006

  Do you have a USB mouse? If so, try turning on legacy support for USB in the BIOS. If that doesn't work, you may have to use a custom boot disk for the game.

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• davidlyhua Member

  January 2006 edited January 2006

  No I am not using a USB mouse. How do I go about creating a custom boot disk for the game?
  
  David

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• drasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian

  February 2006 edited February 2006

  If you're booting into legacy DOS from Windows 98 (ie Reboot in MS-DOS mode from shutdown list) all you need to do is add mouse.com to your autoexec.dos file. The file autoexec.dos is the real mode DOS version of the system's autoexec.bat file. You shouldn't add anything to your system's autoexec.bat file because it will conflict with your Windows device drivers. MOUSE.COM is the generic PS/2 mouse driver for DOS. The line in autoexec.dos will look something like this:
  
  LH {path to mouse.com, usually something like C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\MOUSE.COM , can't remember off the top of my head. Just search for MOUSE.COM}
  
  On my dedicated DOS machine (which actually has 16-bit DOS) the line looks like:
  
  LH C:\DOS\MOUSE.COM
  
  Because on my machine that's the location of MOUSE.COM
  
  Reading this thread may be helpful for you.
  
  -drasnor

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• davidlyhua Member

  February 2006 edited February 2006

  hey thanks, i cant find mouse.com but i found another way to get the mouse working. i downloaded cutemouse and typed in the path for the cutemouse driver into my autoexec.bat file and now the mouse is working in dos mode.
  
  david

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