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From: cs161fhn@sdcc10.ucsd.edu (Dennis Lou)
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Subject: Re: Joystick emulation of mouse controls . . .
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Date: 3 Jan 91 19:40:10 GMT
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In article <4927@lure.latrobe.edu.au> TSPHA@lure.latrobe.edu.au writes:
>I've been waiting for a solution to a question that I have seen raised
>time and time again regarding the emulation of a mouse with a joystick.
>
>It may be a crude way of doing things, but sometimes it is just "what the
>Doctor ordered."
>
>I've seen programmes to use a mouse to emulate the keypad.  Has anyone
>seen a program(me) to emulate a mouse with a joystick?  I don't expect
>there to be a public domain program(me), but I've seen neither a shareware
>nor commercial package to do the job.

Several years ago, there existed a program called PMM (shareware),
otherwise known as "Poor Man's Mouse".

Good luck finding it.

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