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I remember it was possible to play Settlers 2 in two-player split screen with two mice in DOS, and it seems possible to recreate in Dosbox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfpx0siF5TU

If I remember correctly, the trick here was to not start the mouse driver (mouse.com), but let Settlers' internal mouse driver have control :)

I have no idea about two player Lemmings in DOS. I have never played it, at least.

that's pretty wild - the game shipped it's own custom mouse driver?

Well, define "driver"... This was DOS, so you had to listen to interrupts to catch mouse events. It was more or less standard though, if my memory serves me correctly.

On an Atari ST we were playing with a mouse and a joystick. Still a great experience!

unfair advantage for the mouse guy ? :)

I remember it as one of the best two player games ever, so I guess, given enough time we could master anything :)

I played lemmings on my HP48SX... it worked fine :)