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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows 3.x/9x/ME => Topic started by: MIRKOSOFT on August 18, 2011, 08:31:25 PM
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Hi!
I tried to find driver for Genius optical 2 button mouse with wheel to support wheel or wheel as button for Windows 3.11, never succesfull.
So, I connected old 3-button mouse by serial port.
Mouse works correctly, but middle button is inactive...
I tried driver CuteMouse, not succesfull, also drivers for Genius works not.
CAN ANYBODY HELP ME HOW AND WHERE TO FIND UNVIRSAL DRIVER (for MS-DOS 6.22 & Win3.11) FOR THIS 3-BUTTON MOUSE?
Also, mouse is very old, unknown model, labels are destroyed...
Many many thanks for everything!
Miro
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How will you know when the middle mouse button is working? Windows 3.1x doesn't have support for the middle mouse button.
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Hi!
Yes, maybe I wrote it wrong...
I have test program for mice and there shows staus of LEFT, MIDDLE, RIGHT button and shows coordinates...
Also - I'm using Win3.11 for Commodore 128 HDD - solution 64HDD Professional and there is support of 3-button mouse, only needs driver for Win/DOS...
So, main usage is not Win3.11, main usage is 64HDD Pro running in Win3.11 or DOS...
So, I'm sorry... now is the Q better written...
Miro
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You will not have use of the middle button in that enviornment...
Think that's what BC was sayin.
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Turns out I was wrong, The Windows 3.1 SDK does in fact define WM_MBUTTONDOWN and WM_MBUTTONUP. No built-in applications use it, and very few other applications do either.
Obviously, a proper driver would be needed. (that's why you are here).
All we know is that it's a serial mouse with three buttons. That isn't a lot to go on.
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I'm really sorry, but this mouse I found after lot of years and any company or model labels are damaged so, that it is not possible to know more...
Miro
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...I'm using Win3.11 for Commodore 128 HDD...
Commodore 128 does DOS?
Are you running this in emulation on some other platform?
There is a New Commodore 64: http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_C64.aspx
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Yes, I know that new Commodore 64 is for sale, but it's really PC platform computer with emulation only...
I'm real Commodore 128DCR / Commodore 128 flat user.
64HDD Pro allows to access FAT12/FAT16/FAT32...
So, There's not problem of data storage...
Why I'm writting about mouse?
Commodore 8-bit computers never have 3-button mouse except CMD SmartMOUSE (not possible to buy ATM).
64HDD Pro allows also to use PC-mouse for Commodores... so, I have original CBM 1351 mouse (2bttn), also Micromys, but this can allow many many things...
3-buttons or 2 buttons with wheel...
Miro
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I gotcha. 64HDD Pro is something I never heard of before. Don't know much about it. I'll read up.
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Turns out I was wrong, The Windows 3.1 SDK does in fact define WM_MBUTTONDOWN and WM_MBUTTONUP. No built-in applications use it, and very few other applications do either.
Obviously, a proper driver would be needed. (that's why you are here).
All we know is that it's a serial mouse with three buttons. That isn't a lot to go on.
I did not know that...Thanx for the info...
Miro have you tried any of the old legacy Windows drivers ? ?
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So, I have only Win3.11 on CD with MS Word & Excel + MS-DOS 6.22...
Not more than standard package...
I was searching on internet, but maybe mistaken, also FTP for Win3x and there were only drivers for Video & Audio...
Please give to me any tip or better, any link...
Many thanks.
Miro
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So, I have only Win3.11 on CD with MS Word & Excel + MS-DOS 6.22...
Win3.11 is Windows for Workgroups v3.11, so networking is built-in.
Win3.1 is not the same, has to be done manually through DOS drivers. Very difficult to accomplish.
Most corporate environments started with WFW-3.11, and then moved to WinNT3.51. Many used both simultaneously.
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For correction:
MS DOS 6.22 EN
MS Windows 3.11 For Workgroups CZ
MS Word & MS Excel are from 3x era...
Miro
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So, I have only Win3.11 on CD with MS Word & Excel + MS-DOS 6.22...
Really? I didn't know Microsoft marketed such a product - where did you purchase this?
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Of course it was not originally compiled by Microsoft.
I had diskettes, and later when I wanted to make any DOS archive I burned CD with this compilation...
Word & Excel are only from friend, also I don't know if there was a pack like Office in that years...
Miro
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... I don't know if there was a pack like Office in that years...
Yes there was, MS Office 4.3, 24 3.5" floppy disks. Copied them all to a backup drive. Each folder named "Disk1", "Disk2", etc, so it knows the volume label for successive disks. I installed it once to a computer with no optical or floppy drive. Most files are dated 1994. Most of the 24 disks are cabinet files (*.cab).