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From: bill@cbmvax.UUCP (Bill Koester)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Janus 2.0 mouse
Keywords: Bridgeboard
Message-ID: <7975@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 22 Sep 89 20:17:31 GMT
References: <2517AA45.3CDB@drivax.UUCP>
Reply-To: bill@cbmvax.UUCP (Bill Koester)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <2517AA45.3CDB@drivax.UUCP> liberato@drivax.UUCP (Jimmy Liberato) writes:
>With the Amiga emulation of the Microsoft serial mouse
>under Janus 2.0 (which I do not have) would I have access
>to the mouse cursor in the PC window while using a video
>card (VGA) in one of the bridge slots with a separate
>monitor?  Or will it only be accessible in the PC window
>from the Amiga monitor?

AMouse emulates a Microsoft mouse. It is up to the application program
to handle drawing the mouse cursor. I have used amouse with windows, 
norton commander flight simulator and others on video boards such as
CGA EGA VGA as well as pcwindows CGA.
>
>On a related note, what are the complications in having the 
>Bridgeboard emulate one of the higher PC resolutions.  EGA 
>should fit within a 640x400 screen.  Other than transfering
>files I have yet to discover any practical use for the
>bridgeboard's CGA. It has long been abandoned.  Even EGA has
>been orphaned by IBM.
>
Emulating EGA will require some sort of hardware upgrade. EGA requires
an extra 64K. Currently there is not enough dual-port memory
to support EGA.

		BK