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First post, by Sheriff Hobbes

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Hi guys,

in DOSBox, is it possible to disable the mouse?
Over the weekend I installed several jump & run games. None of them supports the mouse (and in fact it would be pointless for playing), but I always see a useless mouse pointer in the game. I haven't seen any comments about this in the Readme or the config file, but maybe there a hidden option?

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Reply 2 of 10, by MiniMax

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Re: Mouse problem

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Reply 3 of 10, by Sheriff Hobbes

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Thanks for the link, but mouseoff.com doesn't work. Using version 0.72 under XP.
Examples of games are Commander Keen, Duke Nukem 2, Monster Bash.
It's actually a problem of DOSBox not capturing the mouse cursor when you click inside the DOSBox window. I believe this is only a problem with games not supporting the mouse, but not with all of them, e.g. the cursor disappears in Duke Nukem.

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Reply 5 of 10, by DosFreak

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or press the key combination to capture the mouse.
Try the latest CVS build of DOSBox.

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Reply 6 of 10, by Sheriff Hobbes

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DOSFreak is right. Ctrl+F10 does the trick. This means that the "auto lock" function does not work in these games. No big deal though, but you can add it to the bugs list. 😉

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Reply 7 of 10, by wd

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Where's the bug? In windowed mode there's no reason to disable the mouse
cursor, assuming you're not too stupid to move the mouse out of the window
yourself if the sheer cursor annoys you.

Reply 9 of 10, by MiniMax

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Sheriff Hobbes wrote:

It's actually a problem of DOSBox not capturing the mouse cursor when you click inside the DOSBox window.

Sheriff Hobbes wrote:

I wasn't talking about windowed mode.

Sorry - our mistake.