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First post, by bytesaber

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Any favorite mice or keyboards with Win9x support? I am thinking about trying to find something old on ebay, but I do not know what I may want to try to find. I just know that my 2 button logitech mouse is less than desired.
Any illuminated mice or keyboards? Programmable gaming? Thanks!

Reply 1 of 2, by dr_st

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Any PS/2 keyboard and PS/2 mouse will work with Win98, and all the standard keys + the first 5 mouse buttons should work with the basic drivers loaded into Windows. USB will probably also work, but I never tried it myself to know.

Advanced functions (macros, etc) may not work, as they depend on drivers specific to the model of the peripheral. If there isn't one for Win9x, you may be stuck.

Illumination, I believe, is strictly a hardware feature, and only depends on sufficient power through the port (or it may use the batteries integrated into the device).

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Reply 2 of 2, by PhilsComputerLab

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I use a MX518 USB mouse. It's smoother than PS/2 mice in games 😀

Modern USB joysticks also work great. But that's as far as I have needed peripherals.

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