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| '''Cutemouse''' is the standard mouse driver for FreeDOS. The program name is '''CTMOUSE'''. | | The '''FreeDOS Beta 4 "Lemur"''' distribution was released 29 December 1999. |
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| On a dedicated PC, you’ll need a compatible mouse and the Cutemouse driver. Cutemouse is a DOS-based, open source mouse driver, which supports many protocols of serial and PS/2 mice. It can search for a serial mouse at all COM ports or only at a specified port. An important Cutemouse feature is its small memory footprint: the resident [[TSR]] occupies less than 3.5K of memory. Cutemouse can also install itself in upper memory, when available, without requiring external utilities such as the [[LH]] (Load High) command.
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| CTMOUSE supports standard Mouse Systems, Microsoft and Logitech serial and PS/2 protocols. Also supported are mice with wheel. By default, when searching for a connected mouse, the PS/2 port is checked first, then all COM ports are scanned. This makes it easy to install. For most mice, just add this to your [[AUTOEXEC.BAT]] file:
| | Jim always wanted to have a mascot for the FreeDOS Project (it's a gimmick.) Linux had the penguin, BSD had the daemon, and GNU had the gnu. Jim hadn't pushed the idea of officially adopting a FreeDOS mascot because he didn't want to get distracted by the noise that would create. Jim named the Lemur distribution as a way of "adopting" a mascot when we really didn't. Plus, Jim always thought lemurs looked cool. |
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| This assumes that the Cutemouse driver was installed in the C:\CTMOUSE directory. | | This Wayback snapshot says "The Beta4 distribution was released on 29 Dec 1999." Assume that is the correct date. |
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| There are other options to Cutemouse to specify certain mice, or to disable certain features. If you have problems loading the mouse driver, check the documentation that came with your version of Cutemouse.
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| If you want to play a different game that doesn’t require a mouse, you can unload Cutemouse from memory. The '''/U''' command line option will unload the resident part of the driver unless the interrupts have been intercepted by another program:
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| C:\CTMOUSE\CTMOUSE /U
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| After successful unloading, it restores mouse services that were present at installation time.
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| Inside a [[PC emulator]], things are a little easier. Some PC emulators may provide the mouse driver by default. Check if yours does. If it does not, try using Cutemouse.
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Revision as of 12:13, 17 March 2024
The FreeDOS Beta 4 "Lemur" distribution was released 29 December 1999.
Codename
Jim always wanted to have a mascot for the FreeDOS Project (it's a gimmick.) Linux had the penguin, BSD had the daemon, and GNU had the gnu. Jim hadn't pushed the idea of officially adopting a FreeDOS mascot because he didn't want to get distracted by the noise that would create. Jim named the Lemur distribution as a way of "adopting" a mascot when we really didn't. Plus, Jim always thought lemurs looked cool.
History
This Wayback snapshot says "The Beta4 distribution was released on 29 Dec 1999." Assume that is the correct date.
Announcement
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