Chris Newman wrote:
>
> As far as I know the titleholder is Ogre, an Origin release from 1986.
> (See attached screenshot).
Ogre's IBM release was actually in 1987, even though the copyright says
1986.
See http://www.mobygames.com/game/sheet/gameId,4248/ for an earlier
example. But while this example was over 2 years earlier, it was
neither commercial nor the Microsoft protocol, which of course became
the standard. So if you're asking "which commercial IBM game was the
first to support Microsoft mice", then the answer is probably Ogre.
> Aside from Windows 1.0a, which arrived in November 1985, were there any
> commercial products for the PC line with mouse support? GEM perhaps? I
All tons of paint programs, sure. You could get a color paint program
to work with the PCjr mouse in 1984. I remember the Mouse Systems
optical mouse coming with an OEM version of Z-Soft Paint (later to
become PC Paintbrush) in 1985. Microsoft Word for DOS 1.0 (1984? 1985?
can't remember for sure) was the first commercial application to support
the Microsoft mouse (of course).
> know some folks wrote their own public domain programs which included
> homebrewed mouse drivers, but what about business-land?
My example wasn't commercial, but it definitely didn't use a
"homebrewed" mouse/driver.
What an interesting question. Why do you ask? If you're looking for
something specific, I could pick my brain better if I knew what to pick
for. ;-)
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