Re: USB Mouse won't work

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From: bk... Raymond Martineau
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 01:01

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On Sat, 4 Jun 2005 17:11:47 -0700, "Anon Ymous" <an...@ymous.com> wrote:

>Greetings!
>I have just installed the Doom Trilogy (Ultimate Doom / Doom II / Final 
>Doom) on my Dell Inspiron 8500 laptop.  This system has a built-in fuzzy 
>button mouse, plus a touch-pad pointer, and uses an external USB connected 
>Mouse (no PS2 mouse port).  When running Doom, I can't get the mouse to 
>work.

That's a fault with that version of Doom - the mouse driver only works on
Win95-ME.  If you want the mouse to work, you need to use the Dos version
(where the sound won't necessairly work properly) or grab a source port.  

Source ports for Doom:
http://www.doomworld.com/classicdoom/ports/

Noticable ones are prBoom (compatability), ZDoom (versatility), and JDoom
(improved rendering).   Other options are available, but aren't as popular.

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