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From: gwang@igloo.scum.com (George Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Simulate a mouse with a joystick?
Keywords: mouse, joystick
Message-ID: <2623@igloo.scum.com>
Date: 12 Jul 90 14:15:46 GMT
References: <20701@duke.cs.duke.edu> <3994@cherry.UUCP> <11848@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
Reply-To: gwang@igloo.UUCP (George Wang)
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In article <11848@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> dlou@dino.ucsd.edu (Dennis Lou) writes:
>In article <3994@cherry.UUCP> hamilton@motcid.UUCP (Danial Hamilton) writes:
>>zielke@romeo.cs.duke.edu (David Zielke c/o hsg) writes:
>>>I seem to remember someone mentioning software which would simulate a mouse
>>>with a joystick.  Does anyone remember where this software was to be found?
>>
>>You probably remember my request for such a beast last April, or someone
>>elses request that was more recently posted.  I got several replies
>>last April from people who said "If you find one, I want it too.", but
>>not a single pointer to where one exists.
>
>It's called PMM ("Poor Man's Mouse").
>

Actually, PMM is *NOT* a true mouse simulator.. All it does is
it makes the joystick emulate the cursor keyboard ARROW keys...
It does not actually intercept the mouse interuppt vectors and
emulate a true mouse... I too have asked for such a program and
some have said Poor Man mouse but that is *NOT* correct...

A LONG time ago someone said PCMagazine published a utility
(or it was on their pc disk...) a program called MOUSE.COM
which does what we need.. It was in 1986 I think...
I search all issues of 1986, 1987 and 1988 but couldn't find
any such program!! Does anyone collect all of PCMagazines
disk?? Or perhaps has access to PCMagazines archives
(I think they run a BBS...)

Let me know
George

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