First post, by Zalth
Hi guys, so lately I've been playing Conquered Kingdoms(QQP, 1992) with .73 and it runs SO CLOSE to perfection that the annoying mouse disapearing problem is maddening. The pointer will just decide to disappear in the main map view after you click on a unit and you have to scroll the map(ie: refresh the graphics) to get it back. It happens hundreds of times in a game, and it doesn't even seem like a Dosbox issue because it happens when I run the game in XP(without sound of course).
QQP's Lost Admiral has a similar problem where the mouse will either disappear or spam a trail of mouse pointers all over the screen following the cursor.
I'm guessing that these problems relate to the way QQP coded for ancient serial mice? Are there any .cfg options for changing the way Dosbox draws/deals with mouse input that I could try? More accurate serial mouse emulation or something? I've tried all the listed screen output options(ddraw, overlay etc). I'm currently using an XP rig with a USB Razor mouse, but I'm guessing the only solution will be to run it with an actual serial mouse on my win98 machine...