[GEM Development] Erratic Mouse Movement

[Thomas Clayton]

Liam,

Yeah. You CAUGHT me! :-(
I forgot to go back and put "GEM Developers" in the salutation line. I usually "cut and paste" from the address and then modify it.

Thanks for the BOOT disk reference URL. I've got most of MS Corp.s from  "back when" (personal acquisitions over time).

BTW, anyone know where PC-DOS 7 (.0, .01) Diskette 1 (whole) can be obtained? I've got 2, 3, 4, 5, but NOT the #1 BOOT disk of an install set.

I've tried lots of things over the weekend - including booting from a floppy with minimal add-ins - and will be making a full report (letter), shortly. Library closing shortly!

Tom Clayton

--- On Mon, 6/6/11, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [GEM Development] Erratic Mouse Movement
> To: "GEM Development" <gem-dev at simpits.org>
> Date: Monday, June 6, 2011, 12:27 PM
> On 4 June 2011 02:53, Thomas Clayton
> <topcatdrc at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Dear who? :¬)
> 
> Have you tried with a boot floppy, to see if it's a DOS
> issue? You can
> download a variety from here:
> http://bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm
> 
> If you need a generic mouse driver, I can probably find one
> and email
> it. Let me know.
> 
> 
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