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From: njd@cbnewsd.att.com (nick.j.dimasi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: mouse
Message-ID: <1990May24.231339.17036@cbnewsd.att.com>
Date: 24 May 90 23:13:39 GMT
References: <1369@lectroid.sw.stratus.com> <3781@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
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>In article <1369@lectroid.sw.stratus.com> lennox@lectroid.sw.stratus.com (Craig Scott Lennox) writes:
>>
>>Is there a mouse available for the Atari 800??  Perhaps one that plugs
>>into a joystick port?  That would be neat.
>>
>Yes, you can use the ST mouse.  The pinouts are fine and the connector is just
>right.  Of course, software is the larger issue.  I only know of one program
>.....
>mouse is an inverted Trak-ball, it works on a mouse too.  I seem to remember
>the left and right directions were reversed which added challenge to the game.
>
I presume you mean that the directions are reversed with the mouse.  Missle
Command works just fine (in the proper directions) with the trakball.  The
trakball evidently does not signal the computer exactly as the mouse does,
since there is a modification one can make to the trakball so that it can
emulate an ST mouse.  (I prefer the trakball with my setup anyway, since my
computer sits on a TV cart in front of a couch.  No convenient space for a
mouse.  I wish the Atari version of Blazing Paddles would use the trakball
in trakball mode [have to use joystick mode] - the left switch on my Koala
Pad is broken :-(

Nick DiMasi				Uniq Digital Technologies, Inc.
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