First post, by VirtuaIceMan
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I recently picked up a Hot Wheels mouse like this one http://www.terapeak.com/worth/mattel-hot-whee … o/121728452065/ as it includes a Hot Wheels Rally game (see here: http://web.archive.org/web/19970113142314/htt … ping/index.html).
You can download the drivers CD with the game in it from this discussion thread https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=31781
Now, I got the game working on Win98 virtual machine, but you can't drive the car without using the mouse and it's custom Win3.1/Win95 drivers (although the readme file cryptically talks about using a regular mouse with "special keystrokes on your keyboard along with your regular mouse" but doesn't indicate what those are).
So I picked up said mouse. However, my main PC has no serial port. My older, WinXP machine, DOES have one, and the mouse will work, but the drivers won't install, as it says they are not for Windows XP (as they're for Win95).
I could install Win98 (should be compatible) on the old PC, but as it's a Pentium4 it generally has parts that are too new for Win98 to understand.
Anyway, after all the text above, my actual question is: if I bought a serial-to-PS/2 converter, or a serial-to-USB converter, might the mouse then work in my virtual machine (using VMWare)? And would a serial-to-PS/2 convertor, or a serial-to-USB one be better?
My PC spec: Win10 64bit, i7-4970K (not overclocked), KFA2 GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER, Creative Soundblaster ZXr, 16GB RAM, Asus Z97-A motherboard, NZXT 410 case, ROG Swift GSYNC monitor