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mouse drivers in dos 6.22
Name: Mike Date: January 6, 2001 at 07:52:23 Pacific
Comment:
Hi there,
I am trying to get a mouse working for my computer, which has dos 6.22 installed.
I cannot find any mouse drivers at all ( I understand that they should lie in the \DOS folder).
I've checked my dos 6.22 disks and I cannot find any mouse.sys or mouse.com.
According to documentation I have, they should be there.
Name: Mick C Date: January 6, 2001 at 08:00:56 Pacific
Reply:
MS-DOS has never included Mouse Drivers. Microsoft Mice and most others should come with a Mouse Driver Disk. If you need a Mouse Driver visit my PowerLoad Resource Pages and download one from the MS-DOS page.
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Response Number 2
Name: Mike Date: January 6, 2001 at 09:26:22 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks Mick, I'll try that.
Like I said before, a book I have on Dos 6.22 by Allen Wyatt ("Special Edition using MS-DOS 6.22 2nd edition - October 1999) in which the author writes "DOS 6.0 includes a generic mouse driver called MOUSE.COM, which can usually be found in the DOS directory."
Later on he presents a table of device driver files included with DOS 6.2 (and so presumeably DOS 6.22 as well). MOUSE.COM is included in this list!!!
And in an appendix at the back entitled "MS-DOS 6.22 files" he lists "MOUSE.COM - Microsoft Mouse Driver version 8.20. Installed by Setup only if an older version is present on the disk." This is why I checked the installation disks to see if it was there.
I'm wondering what on Earth this guy is talking about - the file is clearly not there (as Mick says).
Thanks for any input.
Mike
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Response Number 3
Name: John Date: January 6, 2001 at 12:32:05 Pacific
Reply:
I've been using a generic universal mouse driver called cutemouse 1.8 for about 2 weeks. So far no problems. You can get it here:
http://www.vein.hu/~nagyd/
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Response Number 4
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: January 6, 2001 at 23:36:50 Pacific
Reply:
I can email you ms mouse ver. 9.02.
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Response Number 5
Name: Mike Date: January 7, 2001 at 14:40:26 Pacific
Reply:
Mick, Thanks for the help concerning the mouse driver!!! Cheers.
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Response Number 6
Name: ron Date: April 21, 2001 at 15:56:32 Pacific
Reply:
i can not run dungeon master 2 in dos no mouse driver ps i'm a win95 user also i have a gateway 300 meg sys
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