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From: Dave_Kirsch@mindlink.UUCP (Dave Kirsch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: MS-Mouse driver version 7.04
Message-ID: <5391@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 5 Apr 91 00:02:49 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca writes:
> 
> In article <7930@hsv3.UUCP> jls@hsv3.UUCP (James Seidman) writes:
> <You say that all the machines are using C&T chipsets, but my guess is that
> <you are mistaken.  The way that the pointer is done is by using the built-in
> <hardware cursor on Video-7 boards.  The one machine on which it works must
> <have a Video-7 (or OEM equivalent) board in it.
> 
> Are you sure?  This has been discussed before and the consensus was that
> Microsoft is doing what NORTON 5.0 does -- reprogramming the font on the fly
> to simulate a graphics cursor in text mode.  A person from the net has even
> figured out how to do this independantly, and has placed the source code for
> it (along with a demo) on Simtel20 for all to see.. including Microsoft.
> 
> All that is required is a VGA card.  *Any* VGA card.  (EGA also ok??)

I am the person that wrote the routines to do an independant mouse cursor with
a true pixel resolution.  And yes, it does work on *any* EGA or VGA card.  I'd
like to make it work on a Hercules RAMFont, but I haven't found the programming
specs for one yet.

The routines are available on SIMTEL20 in PD1:<MSDOS.MOUSE> as MOU.ZIP. That is
version 1.00, I have version 1.04 which should be on SIMTEL20 soon.

The routines include full source, and the latest version works with Microsoft
C6.00, Turbo C 2.0, Turbo C++ 1.x, Borland C++ 2.x, and includes a version for
Turbo Pascal V6.00.  I hope to be adding support for Zortech C/C++, but no one
I know has a Zortech compiler.

I orginially stated I would mail anyone the routines, but after mailing 100 or
so copies out, I've withdrawn that offer.  Please don't mail me asking for
them, sending out 6 Megabytes of UUENCODED pieces of mail is enough for now.  I
don't want to send anymore.  If you can, get them from SIMTEL20.  Also, I've
heard that they are floating around BBSs around the continent, and is available
on Compu$erve (don't know where though).  Might be on BIX, too.

In any event, the routines are _freeware_, so use them as you see fit.  I
should be putting out a new version of them soon (2.00) that includes the
ability to redefine the 16x16 matrix cursor to anything you want.  I'll try and
get the new version on SIMTEL20 asap.

If you use them in your programs, I'd be glad to see what you have done with
them.  I've been more than overwhelmed with the response I have gotten from
releasing the routines (including 7:30AM phone calls from the east coast asking
questions about them. :)

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