Posted by OSCAR on January 05, 2002 at 16:22:04:
In Reply to: Connecting 2 steering wheels (1 for each daughter) posted by Mike C on January 05, 2002 at 09:29:32:
I configured one of my test machines running a stripped Win98 installation (DOS7) w/ 37b16 (dos version) using the optimouse drivers. The primary mouse is the ps/2 (ctmouse driver), and the secondary mouse is initialized with the optidrv driver (serial). Below are my autoexec.bat & config.sys files. In Blasteroids, P1 & P2 use the ps/2 and serial mice, respectively.
However, if you are boot into Windows, then you must follow the readme.txt file included with the optimous drivers. You can not have the serial mouse plugged into the pc when you load Windows... if you do, then Windows will initialize the serial mouse and it will not be usable by P2.
autoexec.bat
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@echo off
set path=c:;c:\dos;
set tmp=c:\temp
set temp=c:\temp
set sound=c:\sb16 > null
set blaster=a220 i7 d1 h5 p330 t6 > null
C:\DOS\SMARTDRV.EXE /X > null
C:\OPTIMOUS\CTMOUSEP > null
C:\OPTIMOUS\OPTIDRV /1 > null
del null
config.sys
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FILES=30
BUFFERS=60
DOS=HIGH,UMB
DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS NOVCPI
Hope this helps!
--Oscar