Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!amdahl!dwl10 From: dwl10@uts.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Mouse vs Trackball! Message-ID: Date: 17 Oct 89 14:55:18 GMT References: <584@tau.sm.luth.se> Reply-To: dwl10@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey) Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Houston TX Lines: 27 In article <584@tau.sm.luth.se> Kjell-Ove Mickelsson writes: > I know that the trackball exists to a lot of other computers such as the >Macintosh and pc, but so far i haven't seen it available to the Amiga. >I've found an old 'Wico trackball' (joystick compatible) and i am thinking >of rebuilding it to be compatible with the amiga-mouse. >The Wico have those wheels with infra-red??? sensors similar to the >mouse, but instead of giving the correct mouse vertical and mouse horisontal >signals required, it gives out pulses to the joystick up-down resp. >joystick left-right pins in the joystickport. >If anyone knows exactly how the amiga-mouse works, which signals it gives >out and on which pin's, then i would like to share your knowledge. > I also wonder if there exist any trackballs that are ready to buy and >compatible with the amiga-mouse already, and in that case where to get one. >If it do exists then please let me know the price of it, >and where to get it from. > Check out the October 89 issue of "Amazing Computing". It has plans on how to hack up an Atari Track Ball so that it works with the Amiga. The author even rotated the Track Ball 90 degrees, and moved the buttons so that it was possible to use the ball and press the buttons with one hand. -- "What is another word | Dave Lowrey | [The opinions expressed MAY be for 'Thesaurus'?" | Amdahl Corp. | those of the author and are not | Houston, Texas | necessarily those of his Steven Wright | amdahl!dwl10 | employer] (`nuff said!)