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From: sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mouse Extension Cable?
Message-ID: <10000.AA10000@heimat>
Date: 23 Nov 89 03:19:03 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: Sneakers Computing
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In Message <8911202324.AA04585@astro.psu.edu>, antunes@ASTRO.PSU.EDU (Alex Antunes) writes:
>Hi!  I picked up a standard joystick extension cable to use with my
>mouse.  Although my mouse spins well enough with it, though, the
>two buttons do not register at all with the cable.
>The mouse works fine without the extension, as does my trackball.
>The trackball buttons, though, also don't work with the cable.
>When I use the cable on that port with a joystick, the buttons work
>fine.

  I had to make a 1" mouse port extension way back (don't ask why) and
  found out that the connector hood must be connected as well. A ground
  maybe, im not sure.

  Sneakers

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