USB Keyboard & Mouse on Windows 95c

[ahmed.xed]

Hello Gentlemen,

I'm a Retro lover, recently been working on reviving my old PC:

Pentium -MMX 166 MHz
64 MB RAM
ALiCat M3147V 2MB PCI VGA card
Avance Logic ALS100 ISA Audio Driver
Creative 24x CDROM Drive
6 GB Hard drive

Interested to install Windows 95c or maybe 98SE, but I don't have any PS/2 mouse option, I got a converter to serial but not working , so I'm depending on USB

Can someone help me with their experience if Windows 95c or 98 will recognize my USB mouse? any USB mouse ? or do you know any other alternatives to this ?

Thanks in advance

 

[Barty1884]

There used to be (relatively) generic drivers available for W95 on MS's website, but looks like those pages are long since extinct.

Have you tried 98SE? PRetty sure native Windows USB support came with 98, so may be the easier of the two to get operational.

 

[ahmed.xed]

Will try the 98SE (although a windows 95c was my target OS for this machine) and see how things will go, but for the record, the Hard drive I used had Windows Me installed on other system before, and couldn't neither recognize the USB Keyboard nor the USB mouse, so not sure if 98SE will do

 

[Deleted member 1898488]

usb mouse and keyboard were only possible in 95 in safe mode using legacy usb emulation. 98se can use usb mouses (yes, mouses is the the plural of computer mouse IIRC) and keyboards just fine.

 

[Deleted member 1898488]

Also, you probably got a "passive" or "pass-through" adapter. they are only useful on mice that support both serial and usb/PS2/whatever and we can probably assume yours doesn't, and i don't think [strike]serial keyboards ever existed[/strike] (i guess they do), so 98SE or a PS/2 mouse/KB is your best bet.

 

[Carnaxus]

98SE does have USB support, but you'll have to put the CD in for it to install the driver from since there's no other source anymore.