[GEM Development] Erratic Mouse Movement

[Thomas Clayton]

Dear ,

I've been trying to use OpenGEM 6 directly over DR-DOS 8. (It is mostly DOS 7.03 except for the "kernel" files, from what I can see, and I'll be attempting to "move back" to 'pure' 7.03, in any case, in the near future.) The system is a single core Athlon XP "2800+" (2,083 in real MHZ) with 1 gig(B) of DDR RAM on a 256MB FAT16 partition at the very beginning of the disk. All three Logitech mice (1 is a USB so it doesn't count in the DOS) work fine in Win2K on another partition or another HDD. The two PS/2 port ones are one with a wheel and one with three-buttons (Right-handed design; the best there ever was).

Drivers: DRMOUSE from the DOS and CTMouse (Cute Mouse?) from free DOS. I haven't, YET, tried, either Microsoft's (8.x) nor Logitech's (6.43) drivers.
The L's have "cloaking" which worked very well (back when it was an everyday thing for me!) which loads the driver into upper / high memory.

Same erratic behavior in Borland's REFLEX 2.0, BTW. I had one other problem there: the fonts looked like hieroglyphs. Fixed that with Fix8x14.com for video cards withOUT that font in their BIOS. Goto "more better software" which will tell you about this.

http://www.bttr-software.de/
It's IN English!

Anyway, IF the driver replacement should FAIL, then I'll change to DR-DOS 7 sooner rather than later and try again.


Sincerely,

Thomas Clayton