Sandisk78
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I wonder were there any games or soft that run on 4.77 XT/PC and require mouse... Maybe Windows 1 need it, though) I have a working IBM 5150 with EGA and CF/ISA8 device - so have a machine to test mouse on 8088/477)
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PC/XT and mouse ?
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krebizfan
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Required? Very few. Even Windows would happily run without a mouse.
Benefitted from: A number of DOS paint programs were a lot easier to use with a mouse. Indeed, PCPaint and PC Paintbrush generally were shipped as part of retail mouse boxes. Logitech didn't include a paint program but instead included the Point text editor which exposed many of its features to a mouse. MS Word was one of the earlier DOS word processors to support a mouse. Don't forget the other GUIs like Visi*On and GEM.
Games: Flight Simulator. Battle Chess. Balance of Power for all that it was a Windows game was difficult to use with just the keyboard.
Benefitted from: A number of DOS paint programs were a lot easier to use with a mouse. Indeed, PCPaint and PC Paintbrush generally were shipped as part of retail mouse boxes. Logitech didn't include a paint program but instead included the Point text editor which exposed many of its features to a mouse. MS Word was one of the earlier DOS word processors to support a mouse. Don't forget the other GUIs like Visi*On and GEM.
Games: Flight Simulator. Battle Chess. Balance of Power for all that it was a Windows game was difficult to use with just the keyboard.
Chuck(G)
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That's not counting non-Windows stuff, such as the Schema SDT tool that I used. Running without a mouse would be pretty nasty.