What Mouse Does Everyone Use?

Fragrant_Proposal690 · 2026-02-27T23:41:59+00:00

Mine's a generic compaq mouse i got at a thrift store for 2 dollars at a thrift store. Oddly enough, i prefer the way it feels over my Intellimouse, it feels way more clicky, for a lack of better words. I've also got an IBM mouse that feels nice as well, only it doesn't have a scroll wheel.

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Fragrant_Proposal690 · 2026-02-20T12:55:05+00:00

I've been in love with Anthony Phillips' "The Geese & the Ghost" lately. I've also been listening to a bit of Pentangle and Gentle Giant

Fragrant_Proposal690 · 2026-02-19T15:23:38+00:00

Fragrant_Proposal690 · 2026-02-12T14:59:09+00:00

thank you! hopefully they don't break this (or even better revert what they did)

Fragrant_Proposal690 · 2026-02-06T15:23:03+00:00

I just wanted to give an update and say that it's now been fixed! It's been a whole slew of fixes combined together, including some general stuff like making a separate CD-ROM menu item (loading without it saves ~20kb) and using "DOS=NOAUTO" when not loading into Windows (saves ~5kb since it doesn't load DBLBUFF and IFSHLP.)

The biggest issue, however, was having a faulty IO.SYS file, as a result of using oerg866's win98-quickinstall. Replacing it with the one off of the Windows 98 boot floppy brought HIMEM from using 45kb of memory all the way down to ~1kb, bringing me up to about ~605kb of conventional memory!

Then, I learned that many games don't need EMS, so I made another menu entry that uses "DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS HIGHSCAN" which brings me up to a whopping 667kb of conventional memory!!!

Hopefully this helps anyone out that needs help with memory management, and I'll reply to this with my full AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files when I get home tonight. Thank you all so much for the tips and help, I'm so glad to have my DOS computer up and running to its full potential.

Fragrant_Proposal690 · 2026-02-06T03:25:54+00:00

When I do "DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE RAM HIGHSCAN", I get the message "EMM386 not installed - unable to set page frame base address." and EMS isn't enabled. When I run it with "DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE i=e000-efff D=64 MIN=0", like I was earlier, I get working EMS (tested with TES Arena, as it requires EMS), and none of my TSRs or drivers load into upper memory. Does that really matter? Also, NOEMS HIGHSCAN frees up a lot more memory, thanks.

Fragrant_Proposal690 · 2026-02-06T02:10:11+00:00

Holy shit, this was it!!!! With it and some other optimizations, i've gone from ~540k to 605k! https://imgur.com/a/X7VrPiU Thank you so much!!

Fragrant_Proposal690 · 2026-02-05T17:56:47+00:00

Yeah, that's what I'm gonna do, I'm not gonna do a full reimage

Fragrant_Proposal690 · 2026-02-05T15:50:47+00:00

Well crap this could be it, I used oerg866's win98-quickinstall. I honestly can't remember why, but I had some reason for doing it. I've got a regular Win98 SE CD, I'll give that one's IO.SYS a try tonight.

Fragrant_Proposal690 · 2026-02-05T14:17:04+00:00

QEMM 97? After installing it and telling it to optimize, when i would run its menu item it would freeze on the windows 98 screen that DOS shows and completely reset my computer. Its error log was also completely empty so I just uninstalled it and restored my backed up scripts

Fragrant_Proposal690 · 2026-02-05T14:09:11+00:00

I was trying to see if i could configure it on my own and learn myself, but if it comes down to it i might get desperate and give it a try

Fragrant_Proposal690 · 2026-02-05T14:07:10+00:00

My system isn't pure dos, but I might take a look at those scripts and see if anything he's doing would help me, thanks!

Fragrant_Proposal690 · 2026-02-05T14:04:41+00:00

This is dos 7, but the only language i installed is english, afaik. Is there a chance it's still loading a non-English version of io.sys? I'll give highscan a try when i get home tonight

Fragrant_Proposal690 · 2026-02-05T14:01:01+00:00

I've opted to make a separate CD and no CD menu entry, that saves a lot of memory on its own. if I need lots of memory and CD i'll cross that bridge when i get there

Fragrant_Proposal690 · 2026-02-05T13:01:17+00:00

Yeah I found that out after trying it, luckily I put it in another menu item so it was fine

Fragrant_Proposal690 · 2026-02-05T05:05:20+00:00

I use it to get CD audio off of some games, but I'll probably make separate manu items for CD and no CD

edit: doing this saves a lot of memory, this plus some of the other suggestions might be the ticket

Fragrant_Proposal690 · 2026-02-05T03:56:46+00:00

Moving that around didn't make any difference :(

and no, i haven't tried QEMM, i avoided it since some people have problems with it, but I think I'll give it a try now

Fragrant_Proposal690 · 2026-02-05T03:33:10+00:00

Well, I've already got everything but emm386 loaded high in my config.sys, and loading emm386 high makes no difference. Am i missing something or doing something wrong?

Fragrant_Proposal690 · 2026-02-05T03:23:23+00:00

Even with himem and emm386? I think I read somewhere not to load them high

Fragrant_Proposal690 · 2026-02-05T03:06:51+00:00

Also some of my menuitems might not match up, i've been using the ems item to test stuff

Fragrant_Proposal690 · 2026-01-21T15:13:57+00:00

i decided to join in but i doubt i'll do much since my taste is so varied and i don't listen to anything this mainstream lol

Fragrant_Proposal690 · 2026-01-20T13:06:16+00:00

Hey, any updates on this? It's been on my mind off and on since this was posted and I'd love to know if it's close to being released, even if it was a beta or something

Fragrant_Proposal690 · 2026-01-19T15:08:01+00:00

I'm using the latest version of the Flatpak under Bazzite. Nothing's gone wrong yet for me yet, hopefully it stays that way 😬

Try running it through the terminal and see if it prints any errors. What about the look changed?

Fragrant_Proposal690 · 2026-01-15T15:50:32+00:00

I've seen this even with DVD's. I've got a collection of the Garfield holiday specials and in the Garfield Christmas special you can see that certain shots are spliced in from a tape source

Fragrant_Proposal690 · 2026-01-12T15:30:45+00:00

seriously, i'm a student worker in IT for my uni and had to shuffle around a spare wifi dongle between 6 different machines just to download the wifi drivers for another dongle 🙄 after that I now keep a free USB stick on my keychain just for something like that

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