Use Genius serial mouse drivers. Or cutemouse.

retardware wrote:

Use Genius serial mouse drivers. Or cutemouse.

Thing is i dont get it to work under windows 95, and i dont know if it is the driver, mouse pad or the mouse that is broke. Apparently it wont work at all with the wrong mouse pad. And i know thats the old mouse pad, so might just be the pad.. Iam going to make another try later today 😀

CTmouse just gives me cant find mouse.. 🙁

Dont know if its similar here. For my Genius 3-button mouse I had to keep the left (or left+right?) button pressed while switching on the PC to switch the mouse MS-compatible. Maybe worth a try...

Predator99 wrote:

Dont know if its similar here. For my Genius 3-button mouse I had to keep the left (or left+right?) button pressed while switching on the PC to switch the mouse MS-compatible. Maybe worth a try...

It was worth a try, but nothing. 😀

_Roffe_ wrote:

CTmouse just gives me cant find mouse.. 🙁

With cutemouse you have to enable mousesystems support with an extra switch.

As these kind of mice do not have a way of giving feedback like the microsoft-compatible ones, there is no way of detecting their presence. This is one of the reasons why back then I put this kind of mice of my do-not-buy list.
So, if the driver installs, there is still no way to tell whether the mouse works at all.

Back then I preferred the Genius mice (had the best ball/rolls combination, worked very well) and generally soldered in a wire to permanently short the middle button.

retardware wrote:

With cutemouse you have to enable mousesystems support with an extra switch. […]
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_Roffe_ wrote:

CTmouse just gives me cant find mouse.. 🙁

With cutemouse you have to enable mousesystems support with an extra switch.

As these kind of mice do not have a way of giving feedback like the microsoft-compatible ones, there is no way of detecting their presence. This is one of the reasons why back then I put this kind of mice of my do-not-buy list.
So, if the driver installs, there is still no way to tell whether the mouse works at all.

Back then I preferred the Genius mice (had the best ball/rolls combination, worked very well) and generally soldered in a wire to permanently short the middle button.

Iam going try find some drivers and open the mouse to see how it looks inside..
But i have a couple of other projects with higher prio 😀

I just got my hands on two Unisys-branded Mouse Systems opticals with a pad that also looks too old... will be hooking them up this evening to see how it goes (with CTMOUSE with the right switches) and will report back here with results.

Right, a day later than planned, but I tried out my Unisys-branded Mouse systems M4 mice.

They work perfectly, with CTMOUSE.EXE /M doing the trick.

If that doesn't work for you, either you have problems/conflicts around your serial port, or the mouse is dead.

dionb wrote:

Right, a day later than planned, but I tried out my Unisys-branded Mouse systems M4 mice.

They work perfectly, with CTMOUSE.EXE /M doing the trick.

If that doesn't work for you, either you have problems/conflicts around your serial port, or the mouse is dead.

I think the Serial port is fine, i have to try that /m parameter and i will come back to you with my answer 😀
Nice that it worked for you with the pad and everything! 😀