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Lemmings is one of the only games I know where (on my Amiga1000) I can plug in two mice and play two-players each with a mouse-cursor. The two-player competitive-gods dynamic is actually super thrilling and creative and I’d love to see it done again. I expect the mainline desktop OS/UI stack doesn’t know how to handle it!

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I loved 2 player Lemmings!

Another Amiga game we played a lot which required 2 mice was The Settlers.

There's a Lemmings clone called Lix which has networked competitive multiplayer, but I don't know how it works.

(I designed a few levels for the single-player mode which may or may not still be in the standard level pack, but didn't do much else with it.)

You can totally set up multiple mouse(s) on Linux, and graphics cards too, and even use one machine with multiple keyboard/mouse/monitor rigs to give everyone their own X session .. assuming you've got the metal for it.

That's a different use case: one cursor controlled by multiple mice, or multiple completely independent sessions. This is two cursors in a single session - the only case I've seen is this, and even that seems messy: https://pluralinput.com/

Well, and then there's multitouch. ahem touchegg &etc.

I think the first Settlers game on the Amiga had the same feature.

The Settlers 2 on PC could also be played with 2 mices.

I wonder if they can actually properly emulate that mode in UAE?

Yes, using the ManyMouse library.

https://fs-uae.net/docs/mouse

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