Steapa wrote on 2020-10-15, 16:25:Thank you, everyone!
Sorry for the bad pic, my phone camera is really bad. […]
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Thank you, everyone!
Sorry for the bad pic, my phone camera is really bad.
I looked at it better this morning and, as Mkarcher said, there's indeed a "1" marking the right orientation, I don't know how I missed that, sorry. I was worried I would break something if I put the wrong cable or wrong orientation, but since that's not the case I will just go with that.
I will try to use it when I have a serial mouse.
Thanks.
Don't worry, the serial port is one of the few ports that's actually robust (in stark contrast to LPT ports).
It usually has internal diodes and can take a full short, even.
Personally, I also was never able to kill a real RS-232 port before. Just try it with a serial mouse.
If it doesn't work, make a pause and check if the driver is compatible with the mouse (on another PC).
Oh, and please do not try CuteMouse. At least not for the first try. Use something genuine, period-correct, like mouse.com (or *.sys) from Microsoft.
Or one of the drivers in this thread, maybe: CuteMouse not working properly
I had good results with these. If things work (or not), you may still want to try CuteMouse, of course.
It's just that CuteMouse was made with Pentium era systems in mind (just like most FreeDOS stuff), rather than late 80s/early 90s stuff.
(Edit: Reasoning: FreeDOS was designed as a modern DOS. It was meant to continue were MS-DOS 6.22 stopped evolving.)
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