[arachne] Happy Mouse News!

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On April 1st, no fooling, I replied to Ron Clarke on "arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx"
on subject "Re: Attempting to scroll right results in crashing my computer":

> Thanks for the reply, Ron, and thanks for undertaking the daring adventure
> for me to try out a web page that crashes my computer.

> I am happy to hear that you had no major problems with that web page.

> Perhaps the reason why you did not encounter problems with it is that
> you are running Arachne in real mode, and not in a DOS box under Windows.

> With my Dell laptop, with which I am running Arachne nowadays, I have to run
> her in a DOS box under Windows if I want to use a mouse with Arachne

> My laptop doesn't have a real mouse.  It just has a touch-sensitive pad and
> some buttons as integral components mounted in front of the keyboard and
> intended to replace the functions of a real mouse.  Those components become
> active only under Windows.  I have tried to make them work by installing
> the cute mouse driver while in real DOS mode.  The cute mouse driver will
> not activate those components. Does anyone here know of a DOS-based driver
> that will activate those components?

> My laptop has a PS/2 port where I can plug in an external mouse, but I have
> not yet tried out using my laptop with a real mouse.  I will conduct that
> experiment soon.  If I can get my laptop computer to recognize a real mouse
> when in real mode, then I will try out the problem web page again while
> running Arachne in real mode.  Also I will report my results to the list.

This problem is now solved.  I did not even have to install a real mouse!

I just downloaded the FreeDos Balder10 distro recommended by Roberto in a
post he made to "arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" on subject "Re: FreeDos diskette".
That distro contains CuteMouse, version 1.9.1 alpha [FreeDos].

That version of the CuteMouse driver works for recognizing and activating the
"non-real" mouse on my Dell laptop.

I am now very happily running Arachne with a "non-real" mouse on my Dell
laptop in real DOS mode.

Sam Heywood

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