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black screen & no cursor
Name: jay mac Date: April 24, 2006 at 10:59:27 Pacific OS: win98 2nd e CPU/Ram: 2mg / 512
Comment:
I'm having two problems. 1st, I am seeing a black screensround my games that I cant get rid of next, my cursor does not work anymore no matter what I try. Can I get some help here, please!!!
P.S. I ran scan disk & defraged and everything stayed the same...
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: April 24, 2006 at 12:05:33 Pacific
Reply:
Are you running these games in a dos window? If so, hit ALT-ENTER when in dos mode to get full screen dos.
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Response Number 2
Name: jay mac Date: April 24, 2006 at 16:17:03 Pacific
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No Dave I'm running in windows 98. I havent been able to locate Direct x after being told that it would get rid of the black screen problem. I need to tell u this: The black screern appears around the game making it much smaller. Thanks my friend!
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Response Number 3
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: April 24, 2006 at 17:24:25 Pacific
Reply:
Here's Microsoft's DirectX page where you can download it:
Name: jay mac Date: April 26, 2006 at 13:13:41 Pacific
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Thanks Dave but I've used directx and it cannot solve the problem. It allowes us to play games with the black border but the cursor still wont work also I can do e-mails. I can only do work that requires reading. I'll look around a little more to see if I can get lucky...
Jay
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Response Number 5
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: April 27, 2006 at 00:32:15 Pacific
Reply:
The term 'cursor' is usually used to refer to the blinking underline on a dos screen. That's why I thought you might be running a game in a dos window. Sometimes that cursor will disappear unless your dos is full-screen.
Instead of 'cursor' do you mean the mouse or is it some part of the game itself?
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Response Number 6
Name: jay mac Date: April 27, 2006 at 18:04:08 Pacific
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Mouse cursor is what I've always been told, but you're right. It was my mouse pointer, (as I'll call it) but I have it working now. Cleaned everything & ran scandisk & defrag again. Turned it on and there it was! I do appreciate your help... Thanx Jay
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Response Number 7
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: April 27, 2006 at 19:36:02 Pacific
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You're welcome. We're glad you got it fixed.
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Response Number 8
Name: jboy Date: April 28, 2006 at 00:15:42 Pacific
Reply:
Cursoris an acceptable alternative to 'pointer', especially wrt Windows - naturally the DOS useage predated Windows
Windows does store the mouse pointer images (*.cur) in its Cursor folder
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Response Number 9
Name: jay mac Date: May 5, 2006 at 12:52:53 Pacific
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Thanks jboy. As old as I am I'M still learning something everyday!
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