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From: Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: mouse
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Date: 27 May 90 13:51:19 GMT
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In a recent article, rbharding@trillium.uwaterloo.edu (Ron Harding) writes:
 
>     As a matter of fact, the Commodore Amiga mouse will plug into the
> Atari (or C64) joystick ports.  I wrote a program a while back to read it.
> Unfortunately, the program uses a tight polling loop.  I haven't come up with
> a hardware-free way to put a mouse driver in the background on a VBI or
> anything nice like that.

Now THAT's INTERESTING!  I'm curious as to the nature of the difficulty
you're having putting the mouse driver in a VBI.  If you're able to read it 
at all, I'd think putting it into a VBI would be only a side issue.  If 
you simply require help setting this up, perhaps I could help -- I KNOW I'd
be INTERESTED in the project.  On the other hand, if there's something about
the hardware (as you seem to be saying), tell us what it is and perhaps 
someone here can brainstorm a solution for you!

Chris Chiesa
  Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com