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Dual mouse setup (beehaw.org)
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Okay so I don't have Linux, i honestly don't know much about it. But I have dreamed for a while now of a future in which I could use 2 MMO gaming mice to bring my computer usage to the next level. Now I don't think that most computers would know how to handle 2 mice, and I don't think a single game would either, but if there is any that could, it has to be a Linux right? Is that even theoretically possible? Do you think we could ever have that future?

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[โ€“] shiny_idea@aussie.zone 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is it possible for a game to read two mice separately? Sure. It's not common, but it's possible.

The game "Lemmings" was ported everywhere in the early 1990s, but the original Amiga version supported two mice at the same time (two mice, two players, two cursors).

That's a rare example of a game that designed in some support for two mice, and that support was specific to one platform.