Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!bcm!rice!hsdndev!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu!csn!kessner!david From: david@kessner.denver.co.us (David Kessner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Hacking a Microsoft mouse for the Amiga Message-ID: <1991Mar2.022956.13081@kessner.denver.co.us> Date: 2 Mar 91 02:29:56 GMT References: <667662804wkn399@edmund.cs.andrews.edu> <1991Feb28.234935.8920@kessner.denver.co.us> <667838213wkn17880@edmund.cs.andrews.edu> Reply-To: david@kessner.denver.co.us (David D. Kessner) Distribution: na Organization: Kessner, Inc Lines: 29 In article <667838213wkn17880@edmund.cs.andrews.edu> easton@edmund.cs.andrews.edu.UUCP (Jeff Easton) writes: >>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. > > Except that it is a waste of money to buy a bus mouse and throw away >the bus interface board. > > Jeff Easton Zenith Data Systems > easton@andrews.edu Well. Yes. You do have to pay about $15 extra for the interface board that is useless on an Amiga. If you can hack a serial mouse to work on an Amiga more power to you, but it is beyond most of us. I have designed/prototyped/made computers based on the 6502 and think that I am well versed on computer logic but I would rather pay $15 and risk loosing a mouse while rewiring the guts. The other option would be to find that driver that someone mentioned that allows you to use a standard serial mouse on an Amiga. This gives you the best of two worlds: a cheap mouse and a minimum (none) of hacking. - David K -- David Kessner - david@kessner.denver.co.us | do { 1135 Fairfax, Denver CO 80220 (303) 377-1801 (p.m.) | . . . This is my system so I can say any damn thing I want! | } while( jones);