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From: blgardne@javelin.es.com (Blaine Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Mouse Systems M4 Conversion needed.
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.202539.19878@javelin.es.com>
Date: 22 Mar 91 20:25:39 GMT
References: <431.27e0cdd6@brb.isnet.inmos.co.uk>
Reply-To: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
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tscarpenter@brb.isnet.inmos.co.uk writes:
> 	I have a mouse systems optical mouse (model M4), Thanks to Ed Hanway
>     	I now have this working on my Serial port of my A500 but does anybody
>  	know of a hack to enable it to work in the Mouse/Joystick port.

Can't be done. At least short of building it from scratch. Last weekend
I persuaded a friend to let me dismember his Boing! mouse in hopes that
I could easily duplicate that circuit for my M4 serial mouse.
Unfortunatly they use completly different PC boards, and different chips
(both labeled only with a Mouse Systems part number, and apparently
fabricated by VLSI inc.). It looks like the only way to get a Mouse
Systems M4 to work on the Amiga's mouse port is to buy the Boing! mouse
or buy the bus version and hack the cable.
-- 
Blaine Gardner @ Evans & Sutherland  580 Arapeen Drive, SLC, Utah 84108
blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com     or    ...dsd.es.com!javelin!blgardne
DoD #0046   My other motorcycle is a Quadracer.         BIX: blaine_g
                       STILL 513 miles to go....