how do i get my mouse to work with dos games??? it works in windows 3.11 but none of my dos games recognise it. its just a regular serial mouse

Windows drivers only work in Windows (weird huh?)

Try the CuteMouse DOS mouse driver - you can load it from autoexec.bat or the command line

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Also, if you're trying to play DOS games "through" Windows (not a good idea), even if you have a DOS mouse driver loading up on boot, you'll likely have trouble unless you do some creative "PIF-editing"...

yea i used 2 dos drivers and it still didnt work they both boot up but idunno.. whats pif editing

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What do you mean by "didn't work"?

It's not recommended to run DOS games from Windows 3xx - it's wasteful of resources, there can be sound and graphics problems.

PIF

program information file

<file format> Under Windows, a file providing information on how a non-Windows application program should be run, including how much memory should be allocated to it and what graphics interface it requires.

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OK ...search with file manager for a file called "mouse.sys"...in your config.sys file (which you open with notepad or the dos 'edit' program) add the line DEVICE=C:\mouse.sys ...if your mouse is in windows obviously add c:\windows\mouse.sys instead or if it's in dos add C:\dos\mouse. sys instead..just specify the complete path...
You must surely get the idea...almost any mouse.sys will work with any mouse (go ffigure...)
You might want to write the 'device' entry ass 'devicehigh' instead if your using dos games, or better yet , after you get the mouse working , run memmaker so you've got more dos memory for dos-based games.
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Getting the mouse to work in MS-DOS

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You could try ChampMouse 4.0, a fairly old and small mouse driver from IBM. You don't have to load it unless you need it. The good part is it can be simply loaded from the command line in Dos proper just before you load the game you want to play. Just unzip the file (mouse.com) in c:\dos, then before you run a dos game, just type "mouse [enter]" at the command prompt, then run your game. Always worked well for me :)

ChampMouse 4.0

HTH.

Lightspeed.

http://oldfiles.org.uk/lightspeed/main.html
http://oldfiles.org.uk/lightspeed/lightspeed95.html

Booting to Dos in Win 3.1 is simple enough! All one has to do is to close the Win 3.1 GUI by exiting it.

In 9x, just use Start -> Shut Down -> restart in MS-Dos mode...