hmm odd. 0.61 works fine here. Did you try locking the mouse using ctrl-f10 ?

Yes, I tested that. Anyway, the problem appears to be gone after I rebooted my comp (just restarting dosbox didn't help) so it seems it was a temporary problem. Everything is fine now.

Same thing for me, but only in Mandrake 10.0 + SDL 1.1(?)
In FreeBSD 5.3 + SDL 1.2 all works fine.
I have tweaked mouse.cpp, so now it works in Mandrake too, but after trying it on FreeBSD I see, that problem is not in dosbox but in Mandrake installed version of SDL or (?).

I'm having exactly the same problem on debian unstable, with dosbox 0.61. I tried with 0.63 too, but that didn't change anything (a reboot didn't help either). I use a logitech mouseman mx510, libsdl 1.2.7 (debian revision 10.1) and X 4.3.0 (debian revision dfsg.1-8).

Guest(?), What were the changes you made to mouse.cpp? I'd like to try them out.

There was a note on the SDL mailing list regarding similar problems. it works when you are in full screen mode, but it doesn't work when you are in windowed mode. Full screen mode suits me fine for now, but it would be nice to be able to games in window mode, too.

I have the latest DosBox version and D-Fend front end installed on my new Toshiba laptop and it works just fine with one exception.
I do not have a nine pin serial port on this machine as it comes equipped with 3 USB ports.

I purchased a Belkin USB to serial converter which nworks fine with Windows programs and Hyper Terminal also comunicates through this converter.

My very real problem is that I repair equipment where I need to do diagnostics through a nine pin serial port cable. DOS does not support USB ports and apearantly the Belkin converter cannot function with the old DOS programs that are loking for com 1or 2.

Has anybody got a solution to this problem ?

Regards,

Linwood

dosbox doesn't care about the nature of the mouse
as long as the mouse is recognised by sdl

dosbox turns it into a ps2 mouse