I should have given an update on my attempts, my mistake, I apologize. I appreciate very much everyone's feedback on the issues and the wealth of information you shared! I was not successful in my attempt at shrinking the io.sys file. I am pretty sure that your suggestions would have helped if I …

Thank you very much BolenB, you have made a tremendous effort to translate then document everything and I highly appreciate that. Thank you very much henk717 and others, I will take into account your findings and compare them with my own. I will look upon the files suggested by BolenB and hopefully …

I think that your answer was very well documented. It means that there are more modifications involved and this requires a rethinking of options. As far as I could determine by examining and then brute force editing DOS7 IO.SYS at different offsets, you could remove parts of the code and shorten the …

It is definately possible to trim it down bigtime, the io.sys I use on my boot floppy is only 74kb. I did cheat a bit with that since my starting point was a io.sys which already had the logo removed. I remember seeing an example for DOS 7 or 7.1 in the early 2000s, but I could not find information …

I have been looking for a while on a solution to remove logo.sys to reduce the file size of IO.SYS from a Windows 95B (OSR2) installation, as it serves very well for multiple boot requirements. My main reason to follow this path is due to a loaded bootdisk where every wasted kb does matter. As far …

I have tested quite extensively this distro and it holds real potential. It is much more performance consistent than a typical DosBox running on top of a normal operating system, with multiple apps and background processes. Graphics and CPU emulation speed is nearly on par with Windows DosBox …

Ok, I would like to also share with you a super-smooth mouse.ini for Windows 3.x that I devised, tested extensively and seems to be very good! Also, I would like to share some win.ini settings (nothing fancy here, just standard acceleration) that seem to be ok for Dosbox SVN derivatives: [windows] …

I highly appreciate all your responses and thank you for your deep insight! I tested mouseoff and it works perfectly! Absolutely no problems anymore with handling the mouse in a dos-prompt box inside Windows 3.x after loading microsoft mouse driver (the TSR). My mistake, I haven't searched more in …

Dosbox is, no doubt, a very powerful emulator with good performance and compatibility. However, I have noticed for a long time (more than 10 years) an issue with Dosbox (be it classic SVN or ECE). I assume that Dosbox incorporates a mouse driver similar to cutemouse. I may be wrong but it seems that …