On 2/22/2024 7:43 PM, DAMON GRAY wrote:
Augh!! Ralf, that's so much not what I wanted to hear.
Don't kill the messenger! LOL
But, it is what it is. I was under the impression that FreeDos had dealt with the USB peripheral issue.
Well, no. Just what exactly gave you that impression? No DOS is "USB aware", this is something that became mainstream AFTER the official DoD (Death of DOS). FreeDOS (just as any DOS) depends on the USB support in the BIOS of the machine it is running on. I have yet to find an older computer, with a proper BIOS (instead of (U)EFI) that would be required to run (Free)DOS in the first place, that would not work with a USB keyboard and/or mouse. Well, one exception is a weird HP Brio that would not work with a USB keyboard to actually get into the BIOS, so I had to keep a PS/2 keyboard around for that one. But it would work fine with USB keyboard and mouse once booted into the OS (any OS, I played with a couple the last time I had that machine out of storage). And CuteMouse has been working fine for me, without much fuss, on any machine, with any mouse, that I had the urge to use with a mouse. Don't play games though, so depending what your use case is, YMMV...
Ralf
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