Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!kodak!elmgate!jeh From: jeh@elmgate.UUCP (Ed J Hanway CUST) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Mouse buttons (and Boing! Mouse.) Summary: How to hook Mouse Systems M3 to Amiga. Message-ID: <1105@elmgate.UUCP> Date: 11 Jul 89 22:04:43 GMT References: <8907031413.AA11261@jade.berkeley.edu> <1713@ucqais.uc.edu> <7593@cs.Buffalo.EDU> <7213@cbmvax.UUCP> <446@gtss.gatech.edu> <20308@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: jeh@elmgate.UUCP (Ed J Hanway CUST) Organization: Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY Lines: 38 In article <20308@cup.portal.com> Sullivan@cup.portal.com (sullivan - segall) writes: >btw: I just purchased a surplus Sun Mouse, (Blue x Grey lined pad) only to find >that it has a serial interface, Anyone know where to tie in to get the raw >quadratature signals from this mouse? Help greatly appreciated. Since most Sun mice I've seen are Mouse System M3's, this may be of interest: Inside my Mouse Systems M3 serial mouse is a row of 10 holes with pin 1 closer to the center of the mouse. Wired as follows, it works perfectly on my Amiga: Mouse Amiga 1 ----- 9 2 ----- 5 3 ----- 6 4 ----- 1 5 ----- 3 6 ----- 4 7 ----- 8 8 ----- 7 9 ----- 2 10 NC All you need is a length of nine-conductor wire, a DB-9S connector, and minimal soldering skills and you're set. This probably doesn't apply to other Mouse Systems mice, like the M2 and M4, and may not even be true for other revisions of the M3. Be warned. Before I discovered this, I wrote a serial mouse driver which worked fine for most "normal" programs, but the code that handles gurus (i.e. "Press left mouse button to continue") apparently reads the mouse hardware directly (what else can it do?) and doesn't respond. If there's any interest in this code, I'll make it available. -- Ed Hanway Eastman Kodak Company ...!rochester!kodak!elmgate!jeh #include