doom 95 mouse problem

[tourettes]

I remeber at one time i could use a mouse in doom 95, but since then my computer crashed and had to reinstall everthing i had on to a new hard drive.

So why cant Iget my mouse to work with doom 95?

[MR_ROCKET]

Because your not playing doom95 on windows95 :D

I think there's some 3rd party mouse drivers out there for that.

[FATAL]

You should download some proper doom source port, such as jdoom, legacy or gzdoom.

[tourettes]

i have them all, but i want to use doom 95 lol

[jimmyj]

Why would you want to use the mouse anyway?? It's not that helpful on DooM

[Dutch Devil]

Im playing doom with a mouse, its helpful enough for me.

[ace]

I find a mouse (well more specifically a trackball :D) to be much more helpful in most first/third person shooter games. Though if he meant it's not much helpful for the case of the original Doom(2).exe's, he's right, it's not much use IMO.

[tourettes]

what mouse driver do i need to install?

[jimmyj]

I find a mouse (well more specifically a trackball ) to be much more helpful in most first/third person shooter games. Though if he meant it's not much helpful for the case of the original Doom(2).exe's, he's right, it's not much use IMO
Exactly, its helpful in stuff like Halflife..etc when it comes to 1'st/3rd person shooters, but not doom/doomII

[tourettes]

yes it is help ful in doom and doom2, much better aim than having to use < and > keys. I use it on zdaemon all the time, and I want to DM on doom 95, but i want to use my mouse!

[Grazza]

All I can offer is the following:

compet-n forum discussion (http://www.doom2.net/~compet-n/cgi-bin/YaBB.cgi?board=tech&action=display&num=1058165455&start=7)

Link to the driver referred to there (http://hem.spray.se/zuckuss/d95mouse.zip)

And this (http://www.classicdoom.com/dmouse.htm).

I can't vouch for it working myself in XP, but as you can see, there are claims that mouse support can be made to work with Doom95 in XP, as well as claims that it may not. Good luck!

And for those claiming that the mouse isn't useful in Doom, consider that keyboard+mouse has been regarded as the best control set-up and used by most of the best players ever since the early days. It just gives you much finer control of your turning.

[tourettes]

does not work for me...

[DeusExMachina]

The mouse and the keyboard...the best combination ever...

[lucius octavion]

I find the mouse harder...

[Potnop]

Y the fuck R U using doom 95!?! That's stupid! Just use doom legacy or zdoom. U can easily make it play like Classic doom by disableing certain settings. In doom legacy though, I don't think you can ever have that classic partial invisibility effect though, they replace it with translucency, even if you turn translucenscy off. I have no idea about zdoom though.

[tourettes]

because i want to dipshit, theres nothing wrong with doom 95, except the mouse problem.

[MR_ROCKET]

Someone should just pack a verified mouse driver in with Doom95.
This sorta reminds me of Wintex needing a few runtime files for it to work, why can't some of these files be included? is it against some gpl or something? Or is it just that the programs were left alone on win95 and support was dropped since then and forgot about?

[Gibaholic]

Someone should make a mouse driver for doom95 though, I want to play the pure doom not doom legacy or newer ports.

[DistantJ]

I had the same problem. I just downloaded ZDooM and used that instead of DooM 95, I just changed all the settings to run like classic DooM - ya know, 320x200, all enhancements switched off etc. ZDooM even lets you set the music to sound like it did on the old DOS version instead of using Windows MIDI. The best option if you want to play classic DooM on XP, if you ask me.

[Sheer-Cold]

the driver doesn't work, it worked for me when i had windows ME, with my old Acer, now i got a HP with windowsXP, and doesnt work, so i just use jDoom and works fine with that but the only problem is that i cant record demos nemore and takes a lot more time to load maps that i make, and also sometimes crashes when too much memory is used