DosBox

[Don Freeman]

Having heard of this program many times from this group I decided to try
it out and downloaded it last night. I wanted to play an old arcade
game (Tempest) which really needs a trackball to replicate the original
arcade feeling.

But I can't get it to recognize my USB trackball. I know that USB was
not a protocol used back in the days of this game but is there a way to
make it see my USB mouse as a standard serial bus mouse?

I tried a few web forums and even though this question was asked, no
answer was produced.

Thanks

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-Don

www.cosmoslair.com

[Mary]

"Don Freeman" <free...@cosmoslair.com> wrote in message
news:4ad8b95d$0$1631$742e...@news.sonic.net...

Don't have the answer to that Don. I've used Dosbox quite a few times for
older games. It's a good program. But I used PS mouse. Did you check at the
DOS box forum? Somebody there might know. http://www.dosbox.com/

Mary

[Don Freeman]

Beckett wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:20:12 -0700, Don Freeman
> <free...@cosmoslair.com> wrote:
>
>
>> But I can't get it to recognize my USB trackball. I know that USB was
>> not a protocol used back in the days of this game but is there a way to
>> make it see my USB mouse as a standard serial bus mouse?
>

> USB mice work fine with Dosbox so don't see why the trackball doesn't.
> Afterall, it's just a USB mouse as seen by Windows and nothing
> special. I have a Logitech trackball and will connect it later and see
> if it works in Dosbox and report back my findings.

Cool, a logitech cordless optical trackman is what I am using. When I
go into the game setup and I chose the mouse option it tells me that it
does not detect a mouse. Yet I can move the mouse cursor around within
the shell window just fine. So Dosbox itself is detecting it, but I
need it to translate the mouse signal to the game itself.

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-Don

www.cosmoslair.com

[Don Freeman]

Zaghadka wrote:

> <Ctrl-F10> toggles "capture mouse" to DOSBox. It's worth a shot.
>

As soon as I get my PC unpacked from the move I will try that. Thanks

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-Don

www.cosmoslair.com

[noman]

Beckett wrote:

> I didn't try mine yet but just realized it might not work because it
> is wireless and not because it is USB. Mine is wireless too. Don't
> have a USB mouse you can use instead? You can have more than one USB
> mouse hooked up at the same time.

I use a wireless optical mouse connected to a USB port and it works
perfectly fine in DOSBox. I don't have to use any special tweaks as
DOSBox does everything automatically.
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Noman