Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!caen!hellgate.utah.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!ucbvax!van-bc!outbound!ice!colin_fox From: colin_fox@ice.outbound.wimsey.bc.ca (Colin Fox) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Logitech Hi-res Bus Mouse with Amiga 1000 Message-ID: Date: 19 Apr 91 07:30:11 GMT Organization: Animatrix Lines: 30 >I have a friend that wants to use a Logitech Hi-res Bus Mouse with his Amiga >1000. He said he heard that it could be done, so I said I'd ask. Has this >been done before, and if so, could someone send me the instructions so I can >pass it on to him? Well, I use the Logitec 3 button bus mouse on my Amiga 2500 with no difficulties at all. The tricky part was hacking off the end plug and seeing what colour wires went to which pins (took me all day to carve out that stupid injection-moulded plug). Of course, I can't find the documentation now :( but it's around here somewhere. While we're on the topic, could someone (or a bunch of people) talk to Logitec and get them to make Amiga compatible plugs? When I made my busmouse work on the Amiga, it was a simple re-wire. Nothing special to add, so for Logitec it would simply be a case of them putting a different plug on the end of the cord. One last thing - I can testify to the quality of the Logitec product. For example, the mouse cable has a steel mesh sleeve all along it for extra strength. Took me a while to get through it (I was trying to be careful), but it would seem to add extra years onto the life of the cable. +-------------------------------------+----------------------------------+ | Colin_Fox@ice.outbound.wimsey.bc.ca | "...heavy!" | +-------------------------------------+ "There's that word again! Is | | Informal home of SIGGRAPH Vancouver,| there a problem with gravity in | | and proud of it! | the future?" -- Doc | +-------------------------------------+----------------------------------+