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Title: Two Mouse devices in DOS?
Post by: ErikRuud on July 21, 2003, 12:36:57 pm

This is not about getting mame to recognize two independent devices.

My cab has a serial mouse spinner and a PS/2 trackball.  Under windows this setup work fine, I can switch from Missile Command to Tempest with no problems.

I am in the process of setting up a cabinet for someone else.  Their PC is too slow to run MAME in windows.  I need to know how to get the same to devices to work under DOS.  I have been messing with the Logitech driver that is supposed to support two devices but I can't get it to work.

Any Suggestions?

Title: Re:Two Mouse devices in DOS?
Post by: Thenasty on July 21, 2003, 01:04:44 pm

you need to use CUTEMOUSE.
For serial com1 use command     mouse /s1
For serical com2 use command    mouse /s2
For PS/2 port  use command        mouse /p

to unload drivers mouse /u

This is what i use in my cab.

Title: Re:Two Mouse devices in DOS?
Post by: SirPoonga on July 21, 2003, 01:43:51 pm

On this site, goto Interfaces, mouse, somewhere in there is a dual mouse driver.

Title: Re:Two Mouse devices in DOS?
Post by: ErikRuud on July 21, 2003, 03:00:09 pm

SirPoonga,

That is the driver I have been trying, I get an access violation when I use it.

Title: Re:Two Mouse devices in DOS?
Post by: SirPoonga on July 21, 2003, 03:02:19 pm

Hmmm, can't help you there.  socarcontrols doesn't have the DOs setup either like he use to.  Guess DOS is really dead.

Title: Re:Two Mouse devices in DOS?
Post by: ErikRuud on July 21, 2003, 03:02:49 pm

TheNasty,

I just grabbed CuteMouse off of their site.

I will give it a try.

Thanks.

Title: Re:Two Mouse devices in DOS?
Post by: ErikRuud on July 22, 2003, 09:31:05 am

CuteMouse does the trick, Thanks.

It even allows me to be able to have only one device on at a time, so that moving the spinner during a track ball game doesn't do anything.

I did run into one issue though, GaeLauncher is not happy when the regular mouse.sys is not loaded. It would lock up the whole machine when I hit escape or tried to start a game.

So for now I am running with mouse.sys for the PS/2 device.  For game that require the spinner, I just added "ctmouse /S1" to the .bat file  that launches them.  At the end of the .bat I have "ctmouse /u".  This way ctmouse take over and the game sees the serial spinner, then after the game it unloads itself and mouse.sys regains control.