Excerpt from Eddie Anderson: > Because FreeDOS lacks MouseKeys functionality (and because my > PCs are old (and no longer reliably support mice)), I had to stop > using many old programs for many years. Then I found DOSBox on > Linux. Joy.
> MouseKeys let me use the keyboard to input mouse movements, > clicks, drags, etc. And DOSBox let me run DOS pgms. So I could > play 1830 and MoO again. Even Win3.11 works (though the X-axis > mouse coordinates seem to be doubled). > Sadly, none of that helps DOS users. And I often read in the > FreeDOS lists about users having problems getting USB mice to work > with FreeDOS on some PCs. That may force FreeDOS users to try to > use other types of mice. > But PCs with serial ports, PS/2 mouse ports, or dedicated mouse > ports seem to become scarcer every year. MouseKeys functionality > for FreeDOS would circumvent many of these problems. Many motherboards nowadays have a single PS/2 port than can be used for a mouse or keyboard but not both simultaneously. I know that from frequenting tigerdirect.com , also motherboard manufacturers' websites such as asrock.com and us.msi.com . I too have had USB mouse fail to work on FreeDOS. Now my difficulty is getting a bootable installation of FreeDOS 1.1. USB stick is the only way; FreeDOS can't access SATA hard drive with GPT. I boot FreeDOS from another USB stick using grub4dos but would rather have something work with Syslinux as I once did, but the USB stick itself went bad, actually came apart physically. That way, I could use the USB stick to boot other things like grub4dos, grub2, and other OS installations. I can run (Borland) Quattro 5 and dBASE IV 1.5 (for DOS) from DOSBox, but prefer to migrate spreadsheet applications to Gnumeric. Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Infragistics Professional Build stunning WinForms apps today! Reboot your WinForms applications with our WinForms controls. Build a bridge from your legacy apps to the future. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=153845071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
