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First post, by VertX

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Hi. This is my first post and also am very new to forums altogether so sorry if I am posting in the wrong area or someone has covered this topic already.

I have two retro PCs with a Pentium 2 400MHz and Windows 98, and a Pentium 133 with Windows 95. They both work great but I the problem is I have to settle using a PS/2 mouse as I just can't get the PCs to recognize any of my USB mice. I guess it's pretty obvious as USB mice were far and few between back then. I have a PS/2 mouse but it's a ball mouse and the tracking is terrible, and frankly ball mice haven't aged well in my opinion. I am aware that there are optical mice with PS/2 out there so that would be a nice backup but that makes me curious...

Would it be possible by any chance to get a modern gaming mouse such as my Corsair Nightsword RGB or Steelseries Rival 110 to work over a PS/2 port? How would I go around doing something like this? Is there a way to get Windows 9x and DOS to utilize a USB mouse? is there a converter of some kind I could get? I know it would just be easy enough to use a optical PS/2 mouse from the early 2000s, but a modern gaming mouse would provide significantly better tracking and comfort over them, and I have really gotten comfortable with using my Corsair Nightsword.

My apologies in advance for my lack of knowledge of vintage hardware. Thank you.

Reply 1 of 5, by computerguy08

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For the Windows 98 machine, you can try NUSB. It will help with recognition of many USB devices, including flash drives.

There are USB to PS/2 converters out there, but I find them pretty useless, they never really worked for me.

Reply 2 of 5, by brian105

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My Logitech wireless USB mouse worked without issue in 98FE.

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Reply 3 of 5, by VertX

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computerguy08 wrote on 2020-04-24, 16:40:

For the Windows 98 machine, you can try NUSB. It will help with recognition of many USB devices, including flash drives.

There are USB to PS/2 converters out there, but I find them pretty useless, they never really worked for me.

Wow, NUSB is a absolute game-changer! Thank you for bringing that to my attention, It worked with my Corsair Nightsword even with the macros I set in iCUE, Steelseries Rival 110, and even my Dad's Logitech G602 wireless mouse!

Now is there any way to get USB mice running under MS-DOS?

Reply 4 of 5, by darry

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VertX wrote on 2020-04-24, 17:42:
computerguy08 wrote on 2020-04-24, 16:40:

For the Windows 98 machine, you can try NUSB. It will help with recognition of many USB devices, including flash drives.

There are USB to PS/2 converters out there, but I find them pretty useless, they never really worked for me.

Wow, NUSB is a absolute game-changer! Thank you for bringing that to my attention, It worked with my Corsair Nightsword even with the macros I set in iCUE, Steelseries Rival 110, and even my Dad's Logitech G602 wireless mouse!

Now is there any way to get USB mice running under MS-DOS?

with BIOS support, a mouse driver will see a USB mouse as PS/2 mouse . Otherwise you would need a driver with a large conventional memory footprint , AFAICR .

Reply 5 of 5, by VertX

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UPDATE: I ended up finding a newer BIOS for my 98 rig (HP Pavilion 6470Z), Turns out the new BIOS added legacy USB support so I can now use USB devices without drivers! It also ended up making my Matrox G450 work, so now I have DVI/HDMI. Thank you all for the support.

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