First post, by Edmond Dantes
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So, awhile ago I built an old gaming PC which I have dubbed Mazinkaiser. I recently bought a Logitech PS/2 optical mouse for it, and so have been playing mouse-driven games. I use the cutemouse driver, and most MS-DOS games detect the mouse just fine.
I have my comp set up to give me a boot menu, offering either to boot into Windows 98(SE) or into one of several MS-DOS configurations. (this is REAL dos, not an emulator).
So I decided to play Space Quest IV. I remember from my old PC that this game had speed issues, so I disable the cpu cache. I also remember that it would only play voices correctly if I told it my SB16 was a "Thunderboard"--I tested, and that's still true here (and this, too, requires disabling the CPU cache). So I sit down, watch the opening cinematic, and then try to play...
... It's not registering my mouse movement. So I decide to use the keyboard, but holy smokes, its not seeing THAT either. So I can't even exit the game.
So I press my PC's reset button. And try again. This time I notice that it sees the mouse at first, for like a split-second, but then stops seeing it. And when this happens, I can press whatever keys I want and nothing happens--even CTRL ALT DELETE does nothing.
I tried different memory settings, and even using the MS-DOS mouse driver to see if that was it, but the same thing happened.
At the moment, I only have two theories:
1. Since Mazinkaiser is 700mhz (the last PC that SQ4 worked fine on was 500mhz) I may need to slow the game down even more.
2. The game doesn't like that both my keyboard and my mouse use PS/2 inputs and will only work with COM mice. Seems unlikely, as every other MS-DOS game I have works fine with my current keyboard and mouse, but still.
But on the off-chance that I test these theories and neither turns out true, I was hoping you guys could come up with something. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance.
