![]() Reboot again, open up the Sci-tech control panel and you can even use 1024x768 Hi-Color! You install the version 7 beta, restart Windows, and in Device Manager update the standard pci graphics adapter (VGA) to the Sci-Tech one in the list that appears when you choose to install a different driver and scroll through the Display Adapters to the Sci-Tech Corporation drivers. I've read that the same key for the last version 6 that they offer can also be used successfully on the 7 beta. Go to the Sci-Tech website and access their discontinued downloads where you'll be able to download the product keys for the older versions. (I found the registration information for the SciTech driver, they ended up putting it out for the beta as well and I had missed the memo).Use Sci-Tech Display Doctor version 7 beta. I did drop the speed on the mouse in the control panel applet and that is a bit better too but it still does the ghost mouse thing. I changed the virtualbox mouse setting from PS2 mouse to USB tablet, and that helped a little bit, but not enough to make a big enough difference. I did try installing it in a Windows XP VM I have, but the game crashes after the intro movie.so it looks like I'm stuck with Windows 95. AKA a ghost is moving the mouse.Īs you can imagine, in a point and click game this is quite intolerable. So it thinks I still have the button held down and moving the mouse. It will drag and keep moving and dragging even after I released the mouse button and took my hand off the mouse. it's amusing how many websites don't work.Īs for the mouse issue, I noticed it in the actual VM this morning while dragging a window. Does anyone know of a free display driver?īONUS: if anyone knows of a web browser that would support Win95, it would be hilarious to show off to my grandad.Ĭlick to expand.I wasn't able to use this one, but I did manage to get IE 5.5 installed (which is the last supported version of IE for win95). I tried buying the license, but the company is out of business and the last release they gave out the key, but it doesnt work on the beta version I have, and the previous version didn't have Windows 95 support. Is there a better mouse driver I could use to smooth it out?Īlso I am using a shareware display adapter driver.scitech display doctor. The mouse is quite laggy, and in the game the mouse is literally ALL OVER the place. I got the machine running 99%, I even have Windows 95 online (but web pages look quite horrible) for folder sharing. It's a low overhead point and click game (i thought my 50mhz 486 with 16mb of ram was too powerful for it, so its not power demanding). I'm setting up a Windows 95 virtual machine in Virtualbox to set my buddy up with so his kid can play an old school goosebumps game I have left over from when I was a kid and I had a 486. ![]()
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