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Support for Mouse Copy & Paste on Windows 10 Pro

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First post, by D2MS

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I have installed DosBox 0.74 on a Dell laptop running Windows 10 Pro 64-bit.

DosBox launches just fine and I can run my desired application (Telemagic for DOS).

However, I cannot use the mouse inside Telemagic (or even inside DosBox when I first launch it) to select any of the text.

The mouse moves just fine, but when I drag the mouse over any text, nothing is selected.

On Win 10 command line properties, there is no tab labeled Misc (like there is on Win XP), so I cannot see a way to modify Exclusive Mode or Fast Pasting.

I also tried installing DOSBox SVN-lfn, but I have the same problem there. Also tried VDosPlus. Same problem.

I feel stuck. Would appreciate any guidance/suggestions you might have on this matter.

Thank you in advance!

Reply 1 of 2, by Qbix

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It is not supported as games don't need it.

Water flows down the stream
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Reply 2 of 2, by Jorpho

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D2MS wrote:

I also tried installing DOSBox SVN-lfn, but I have the same problem there. Also tried VDosPlus. Same problem.

Have you tried checking the documentation?

vDosPlus supports the Windows clipboard directly, and it can also access the Windows clipboard in many ways. For example, you ca […]
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vDosPlus supports the Windows clipboard directly, and it can also access the
Windows clipboard in many ways. For example, you can use Ctrl+Win+left mouse
button (or Click+left mouse button with WINKEY=OFF in vDosPlus 2016.10.01)
to select a rectangle block of text and copy it to the Windows clipboard, and
use Ctrl+Win+right mouse button to paste the text from the Windows clipboard.
Ctrl+Win+A, Ctrl+Win+C, Ctrl+Win+V can be used to copy text to or paste text
from the Windows clipboard too. More information about these shortcuts may
be found in the sysnotes.txt file which can be opened with the Ctrl+Win+N
shortcut in vDosPlus. If you have set a COM or LPT port to exchange data with
the Windows clipboard similar to "LPT4=CLIP" in config.txt, you can also copy
text to or paste text from the Windows clipboard with this port. For example,
"DIR>LPT4" will copy the contents of the directory listing to the Windows
clipboard. Or you can use 4DOS's built-in CLIP: device to exchange data with
the Windows clipboard as well, e.g. "TYPE CLIP:" will display the content of
the Windows clipboard if it contains text.

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