Is it possible to use 2 mouses/mice on the same computer in a click game? If so, how? You know, I want something where two players can just click on stuff on the same screen on the same computer.
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Yeah, serial, PS/2, USB, depends on how you join it. And games like Settlers had the feature.
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That's right - after disabling one of the ports from within Win 98 on my old computer (so that Windows itself didn't recognise the mouse) I got two-player split screen Doom Legacy working. Ace.
But I think MMF can only support the one - maybe there's an extension for individual mouse ports?
Do the mice control the same cursor, or does another cursor appear under Windows? I know at my old HS we had some iMacs which you could plug two mice into the one computer and have both people controling the same cursor... which made things interesting.
Mike
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no you cannot have 2 cursors on screen at the same time, it would just further confuse windows to have 2 mouse control devices at the same time, but yes it is fun to have 2 monitors
Ahh, I remember playing Settlers on the Amiga with two mice... but no, you can't have two mice on Windows since all the input goes through the Windows API. And Windows doesn't have two mice because it's a limitation of the (badly designed IMO) IBM PC architecture.
2 mice as in two cursors. Would there be like something in the 'mouse control' thing along with a cursor object I could use? Or would it be possible to seperate the two?
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With two mice, you can go around playing shooters on the same computer . All right, I'm working on a children's game, and I'd get extra points for encouraging kids to play together on the same computer. And kids generally don't like to share the keyboard, or use a keyboard when the other guy gets a mouse.
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I remember the days when my brothers and I would cluster round a keyboard trying to play Trail Burners three-player. It wasn't easy.
But I really can't think of a way to get a Click game to recognise more than one mouse - the idea of mice on multiple ports was just never built in to the code.
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