Using Mouse from TURBO-C Graphics?

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From: John Peterson
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 1990 18:18

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I have been attempting to write a program in TURBO-C in graphics display
mode which uses my serial mouse. My mouse works fine with various commercial
software packages, and I have successfully written TURBO-C programs that
use the mouse in *text* display mode, so... I suspect the difficulty is related
to the fact that I have a Hercules card. I initialize graphics mode, set
location 0x0040:0x0049 to the value 6, then reset the mouse driver with a
call to int 0x33 function 0. I make the int 0x33 call to un-hide the mouse
cursor, it comes up just fine and everything, but when I try to return to
text mode and exit, the machine just hangs up. None of the references I have
indicate any special tricks are required here. Does anyone know what I
am doing wrong, or know of a really good programmer's reference for the
mouse???

 Thanks in advance!

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From: peterson@crash.cts.com (John Peterson)
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Subject: Using Mouse from TURBO-C Graphics?
Summary: mouse,graphics,TURBO-C
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Date: 28 Jul 90 18:18:19 GMT
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