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From: easton@andrews.edu (Jeff Easton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Hacking a Microsoft mouse for the Amiga
Message-ID: <667838213wkn17880@edmund.cs.andrews.edu>
Date: 1 Mar 91 14:36:53 GMT
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In article <1991Feb28.234935.8920@kessner.denver.co.us> david@kessner.denver.co.us (David D. Kessner) writes:
>In article <667662804wkn399@edmund.cs.andrews.edu> easton@edmund.cs.andrews.edu.UUCP (Jeff Easton) writes:
>>In article <1991Feb27.061859.2533@kessner.denver.co.us> david@kessner.UUCP (David D. Kessner) writes:

[...]

>To the mest of my knoledge, all PC Bus Mice have the same pinouts.
>Oh.  The test mouse was from an ATI VGA Wonder board.  For some stupid reason

[...]
>>
>The bus mice have almost no logic in them.  All they do is read the slotted 
>disks (and buffer/condition the outout).  The signals are then sent to the PC
>where there is a board that deals with the signals.  This is an ideal situation
>since it allows us to hack at it without having to figure out the 
>microprocessor and voltage regulator.  It is also standard from mouse to mouse.
>
>It's always fun to hack at hardware-- but hacking a serial mouse with surface 
>mounted components is not for everyone in Netland.  A better approach would be
>to hook it up into the serial port and re-write the mouse driver.  But then
>a bus mouse is fully software compatable with the existing system.

  Except that it is a waste of money to buy a bus mouse and throw away
the bus interface board.

>David Kessner - david@kessner.denver.co.us            | do {

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