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First post, by analog_programmer

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Excuse me, if this topic was previously discussed, but I couldn't manage to find anything on the forum and the internet.

Ling story short:
I need a working mouse for some old point-and-klick adventure DOS games on my old ISA-only computers, but I don't want an old serial mouse with rubber-coated metal ball (these are very rare and expensive in the local online secondhand markets and they are super inconvenient compared to modern optical and laser mice) and I still do not have any ISA PS/2 or ISA USB cards to attach and use some modern mice. So, I thought, that perhaps there is some DOS TSR for a "virtual mouse", controlled by the keyboard (by num-pad keys or something like this), but I found nothing. Actually, I found something similar - MOUSKEYS, but it works in reverse, since it mimics keystrokes from the mouse.

Any suggestion for virtual mouse software for DOS will be appreciated!

EDIT. I just found what I was searching for. Many thanks to eM-!3 for pointing me to these three working TSRs!

Last edited by analog_programmer on 2026-10-15, 15:49. Edited 1 time in total.

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Reply 1 of 7, by SuperDeadite

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I think best option is a USB to Serial mouse convertor...
https://github.com/LimeProgramming/USB-serial-mouse-adapter

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Reply 2 of 7, by analog_programmer

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SuperDeadite wrote on Yesterday, 10:56:

I think best option is a USB to Serial mouse convertor...
https://github.com/LimeProgramming/USB-serial-mouse-adapter

Thanks, but I need some quick temporary software solution, until I decide which "hardware path" I will take.

I know another more elegant variant, but it will also take its time for me to find the exact same model mouse, to order and receive the PCB for the conversion, to assemble the thing...

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Reply 3 of 7, by stanwebber

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i have a mousekeys tsr for dos that i can't find at the moment. i will post if i find it or maybe someone else can provide.

Reply 4 of 7, by analog_programmer

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stanwebber wrote on Yesterday, 20:02:

i have a mousekeys tsr for dos that i can't find at the moment. i will post if i find it or maybe someone else can provide.

Thank you. But if it is the same program as "MOUSKEYS" by Bret Johnson, please, do not waste your time to search for it. I already downloaded MOUSKEYS ver. 3.05 and found out, that it is not the thing, that I need, since it works with real mouse to mimic some keyboard clicks in DOS programs with TUI and no mouse support.

I need something, that turns keyboard's key strokes in mouse cursor movement and mouse buttons clicks in DOS.

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Reply 5 of 7, by jmarsh

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Which games?

Reply 6 of 7, by Jo22

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Hi, you can use a joystick as a mouse. There's "JoyMouse", for example.
It can be found here (not tested) I think.: https://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/misc/dos/RbbsI … D5/JOYMOUSE.ZIP

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Reply 7 of 7, by analog_programmer

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Thanks for your suggestion, Jo22, but I received a PM from another forum member and now I have not one, but three perfectly working DOS "virtual mouse" TSRs 😀 They are freeware, but I'm not sure if I should attach them here, since all the three program are with Russian origins.

P.S. Just found what "ХИРЭ - ПМ" means and it is "Харьковский институт радиоэлектроники - прикладная математика" ("Kharkiv's Institute of Radio-Electronics - Applied Mathematics"), so the two out of the three programs are with Ukrainian or rather UkrSSR's origins, sine they are made before 26-th of December 1991 and USSR's dissolution. The third program is from 1993 and still seems like Russian made to me.

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