2 Serial Mice in Dos?

[JLR2000]

I am currently building a DOS Mame cocktail cabinet.  I notice the PC has two Serial Ports.  I have two small trackball type Mice.  If I wanted to somehow put these on either control panel for games like Centipede (with cocktail flipping) is there a driver to get DOS to see both mice?  Will Mame see both for 2 player in flipping mode?  I've been looking around but the the dos drivers I've seen have been for 1 PS2 and 1 Serial mouse.  Anyone do this or have any info?  Thanks.

[Darkstalker]

It's been a while, but most drivers you should be able to tell it which serial port to initialize when you call the driver.  You'll have to call it twice in your config.sys, and it's going to eat up some valuable 640k, but it should work.  I don't know of one driver that will talk to two serial mice though....

[JLR2000]

Wow, thanks for the quick reply....any chance of getting an example config.sys showing how to "call" each port?

[Darkstalker]

(Just happen to be surfing when you posted..heh)

It depends on the driver as to what the config.sys lines should be.  The best advice I can give is RTM  If the driver doesn't support a switch to chose the com port (Something like /c 2, or /port com2...whatever), you'll have to find a driver that does.

Another tip, always load your drivers with DEVICEHIGH=, not DEVICE=, you'll save yourself some conventional memory that way.

<Reflects back on the old days of attempting to get Duke Nukem to run on a DOS 6.0 486dx2 66>

[Tiger-Heli]

Wow, thanks for the quick reply....any chance of getting an example config.sys showing how to "call" each port?

The docs in the optimous.zip file from www.mame.net main downloads also cover this!

[JLR2000]

Thanks TH!

You know, I *try* not to post stupid questions.....I looked around for about an hour and a half  looking for this type of info before posting. Did it dawn on me to check Mame.net? NO.  Well, thanks for pointing this out, I've looked at it and it's exactly what I was looking for.

[Tiger-Heli]

Thanks TH!

You know, I *try* not to post stupid questions.....I looked around for about an hour and a half  looking for this type of info before posting. Did it dawn on me to check Mame.net? NO.  Well, thanks for pointing this out, I've looked at it and it's exactly what I was looking for.

No prob, I didn't consider it a stupid question.  The info is pretty well buried on mame.net.  It's basically the same files that came with EMU+ when it was around, but now mame supports dual mice.

Anyway, glad it helped.