Once again I turn to the Emuforums for my DOSbox woes. The last time I was having trouble with
One Unit Whole Blood (which I got working successfully, thanks to the efforts of Jonc and others. I don't know if I mentioned this in the aforementioned thread).
Anyway, I picked
Chasm: The Rift up
years ago and, of course, it worked fine on my Win98 machine. For whatever reason I whipped it out and dusted it off and decided to play it again, with the intention of actually
beating it this time.
Well, I've run into a problem. The game runs and works fine; full speed, sound works. It's looking great. However, there's one thing that makes the game literally unplayable: The player keeps looking to the bottom-right.
Now, this issue is a bit strange. It's a problem with mouse input, but the mouse isn't inputting anything. Disabling mouse-look causes the player to walk perpetually backwards and turning to the right, as opposed to looking down and right. So it would make sense that it's a mouse problem. However, unplugging the mouse (and even all other USB devices)
still does it. So, basically, either the game is "generating" its own mouse input, or the mouse neutral position is set at some place beyond the bottom-most and right-most boundaries.
Blood didn't do this, so this could be a problem with the game itself rather than DOSbox and the more I think on it the more I recall having the problem on my Win98 machine, but I can't remember for the life of me how I fixed that.
I know this is a very long-shot of a question; the game was never that popular. However, someone here has probably played it and, if so, may know what's going on. Can anyone offer some advice?
Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.