I got
Win98SE
Compaq Armada E500 (notebook
)
P III 600 Mhz
Ati RAGE mobility
one mouse in PS2(or touchpad, it's emulated on same port)
and one in COM
And I run Settlers 2 without dosbox or anything and nicely with its MIDI music (didn't manage to make my pc play fx sounds)
and, the COM mouse i use for multiplayer somehow doesn't work in Windows, even if I set up all manualy. I think game checks itself All possible ports for mouses and uses own mouse drivers, but this is just a speculation.
P.S. If I remember well, then Settlers 1 second player could move cursor by certain keys on keyboard, of which I don't remember ANY. Don't know on S2 for I haven't tested.