Likely so yes. What model keyboard and mouse? Have you tried the manufacturers' website?

It's possible the manufacturer never *bothered* making DOS drivers for USB though...by the time USB entered mainstream DOS was ancient history.

Even then you'll likely get very patchy results application-to-application. Does your motherboard have a serial port? Or a PS/2 one? Find a keyboard and mouse for those.

Be sure to enable Legacy USB Support for both keyboard and mouse in BIOS; some BIOS have those options disabled by default. Furthermore, after booting into DOS you'll need mouse driver (such as mouse.com 8.20 for Microsoft mice) as well.

legacy is enabled. My keyboard is a quite modern one so i don't think that there will be some. but if it is recognised in bios and under win 98 installation, why its not working in dos?

DOS and W98 are still separate ecosystems. Most of the time they don't interact. You need separate drivers for both nearly every time.

Have you tried running the game in DOS compatibility mode within W98? That *might* work - it's kind of like Windows using DOS as a hand puppet.

THX for the hint, already forgot this option. I have also a PS2 keyboard but this is only for testing. I need to have a wireless input method so thats why im using USB. my desk is bit overloaded.

I know this is not what you want to hear, but the only way to go is with PS2 devices. Even when you think USB mostly works, there will be cases when a game will not play ball with it: I used to have weird issues where pressing keys or even moving the mouse would cause the computer to freeze up, all of which were solved by using USB devices known to be compatible with the PS2 protocol via adapter. And while playing DOS games under a Windows terminal is a passable way to go about it, you will run into even more audio and video compatibility issues, so the trade-off is probably not worth it.

ok Thx, than will look for a wireless ps2 solution..thx