For me, directly after installing w31 the mouse pointer doesn't move at all.

Have to quit freshly installed w31 by pressing Ctrl-F4, then to restart w31 (not the entire DOSBox), and the mouse works fine.

Thanks but ctrl-F4 doesn't do anything for me

Sorry, Alt-F4 is the true key combo.
Usually, this closes particular windows, so press it until you get the msg to confirm to quit Windows 3.

He he... Doing that in dosbox will just close dosbox (if you are hosting on Windows) 😀

No it doesn't 😀

oh, that's new for me (had to test it right now... se rant further down). It used to close Dosbox in the past 😀

@todd, please see the guide at Windows 3.1x DOSBox Guide it has some pointers on mouse issues. if that doesn't help which graphics driver and mouse driver are you using in windows 3.1x?

My rant: on my laptop with Windows 7 I had installed that Windows Anti-Virus solution Windows Essentials or something like that. This did prevent my download of dosbox in both firefox and IE because that stupid program scanned the files and because it was both not up to date with program and virus signatures it failed silently and hid the download somewhere... Only when I disabled Firefox 3.x silent pass through to installed AV program was I able to download Dosbox on that laptop....

Thanks, too bad most of the drivers referenced in the links don't exist anymore.

h-a-l-9000 wrote:

No it doesn't 😀

What? 😮 😉

Ctrl+F9 only ever closed DOSBox for me.

Hmm, I pretty sure alt-f4 once posed problems for me in Windows. That could have been ages ago, though...

@todd can you look up the alternative links? After the weekend I might be able to fix some links.

That's right, I read the guide's info provided on the link

please see the guide at Windows 3.1x DOSBox Guide

from there the links to video drivers, and the drivers have been deleted.

I suspect installing the s3 drivers might fix the mouse problems but can't test to be certain...

Turns out I need to install win 95 any way...
which is turning out to be a pain in the ? as well.