I'm trying to run a dos based game on my computer, however when i try to launch it, it tells me I require a mouse to play. Obviously I have a fully working one, but i can't find out to tell the computer this. This is quite a recent game as far as Dos games go, and was purchased, not downloaded, so I would presume the correct drivers were included, however I still can't get it to work. Any ideas?

You need to load the mouse driver (In config.sys or autoexec.bat, depending on the type of driver). Some drivers can be loaded at the command line, but into conventional memory. Any generic DOS mouse driver should do. Also, some DOS games refused to recognize a PS2 mouse, but did recognize a serial mouse. -Doug

Thanx for that, What exactly am I looking for in terms of this driver, will I need to download it, or will it be on the system allready and just need to be moved into one of these files?

You could try CuteMouse - freeware, doesn't use much memory, comes in PS2 or serial flavours - but seriously, a quick search for ' DOS mouse driver ' would yield more results than you could count. If the driver is an .exe or a .com file, you can load it from the command line or by an entry in autoexec.bat - to save on conventional mem, the loadhigh command will load the driver 'high' If the driver is a .sys file, likely needs to be loaded with a device= or a devicehigh= line in config.sys At any rate, there will be instructions.

Are you restarting in DOS mode? If you're running DOS from within Win9x, you shouldn't need a DOS mouse driver. I wasn't positive, so I tried running Duke3D on my 95B box - no DOS mouse driver set in Windows - mouse worked fine. Perhaps the game needs to be configured for mouse use (some do) It's not a USB mouse is it? Of course, the game would most likely run better in DOS mode, without the all the overhead of running Win on a (relatively) low memory machine.