HD1008: Programming the Microsoft Mouse Under MS-DOS

ID: Q114562

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Mouse driver for MS-DOS

Microsoft has created a document titled "Programming the Microsoft Mouse under MS-DOS" (HD1008) that provides instructions and background information that you can use when programming the Microsoft Mouse.

This document defines all mouse functions and covers basic requirements of all mouse-aware applications and supported video modes.

You can access Microsoft Mouse functions through software Interrupt 33h. To program the mouse, your program must directly manipulate the hardware registers AX, BX, CX, and DX. You can do this with assembly language, C, Pascal, Basic, or FORTRAN.

Because each language has its own method of interfacing with hardware registers, you must check your compiler's directions for instructions when you are manipulating registers in these languages.

The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center. Click the file name below to download the file:

Hd1008.exe

For more information about how to download files from the Microsoft Download Center, please visit the Download Center at the following Web address

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.asp

and then click How to use the Microsoft Download Center.

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Version : MS-DOS:
Platform : MS-DOS
Issue type : kbinfo