Strange as it may seem, the mouse existed in MS-Dos on PCs before Windows. It had to be accessed in assembler using the system's 33h interrupt, but once mastered, it was easy enough to detect changes in cursor position.
You could also change the shape of the mouse cursor. I used it on my video games.
So here's the program that allowed me to design new mice and support my MOU (for “mouse”) file format.
“MkMouse” has been created with Turbo Pascal in 1991.
It's possible that this program is compilable with Free Pascal but I haven't tried. Units not supplied can be found in the DeveloppeurPascal/librairies-TurboPascal repository. If any are missing, please let me know so that I can add them.
You'll find the binarie (8 bits) in the “release” folder. This is the September 19, 1993 version. You can only run it on an MS-Dos emulator, Windows 3.x or 95. There's no point in trying it on Windows beyond these versions.
Check out my other open source projects in Turbo Pascal if you're interested in software archeology.
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