Headmouse on 98SE

[kingofthespill]

For awhile I have been using a webcam at work to control my mouse under Windows 7. Last weekend I picked up a used Veo Stingray webcam to see if I could get my home 98SE machine to work with the program. It did work but was unusably slow. I thought I would post this in case anyone had some ideas or wanted to play around with it.

My guess is I would need old video capture card of some kind. My ASRock ConRoe865PE/gv motherboards supports USB 2.0 properly for XP but obviously not fully for 98SE.

Link:

http://nipg.inf.elte.hu/headmouse/headmouse.html

The program' s title bar says "Adaptive_mouse" but the website is titled "Head Mouse v 1.5 alpha". I believe the name "Headmouse" is used by another similar type of program.

[submix8c]

Have you tried NUSB (it's listed in the Win 9x subforum's stickies list)?

[kingofthespill]

Yes, I always install NUSB, so I guess it is a video driver problem.

I found an inexpensive PCI video capture card called Impact VCB that is backwards compatible, so I think am going to go that route.

I hope someone else might get some use out of this great little program.

[kingofthespill]

I got a cheap Chinese Security camera with night vision and a "PCI Hauppauge WinTv 64405 Rev C1 ImpactVCB Board LP" and it works under 98SE at 30fps. Hands free mouse in the dark!

Note: the PCI card is miniature and required removal of bezel first. =(