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From: douglas@reed.UUCP (P Douglas Reeder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: CDA capabilities, ADB splitter
Message-ID: <8760@reed.UUCP>
Date: 12 Apr 88 18:46:57 GMT
References: <8804120050.aa03119@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA>
Reply-To: douglas@reed.UUCP (P Douglas Reeder)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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In article <8804120050.aa03119@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> AWCTTYPA@UIAMVS.BITNET ("David A. Lyons") writes:
>It would be possible to write a driver for your SYSTEM.SETUP directory that
>would keep reading the joystick n times per second and calling FakeMouse to
>tell the event manager that the mouse is there.  There would be a few problems
>with this, like the difference in resolution--the joystick port returns
>(0..255,0..255), but you need 0..639 horizontal positions to be able to
>put the "mouse" anywhere you want.
>
One possible way to get increased resolution is to use a joystick with 
larger pots that the standard ones. You'd have to rewrite the 
joystick-reading routine to allow for the longer wait times and 
two-byte values, a simple task. 
Another possibility- if it is possible to access the hardware-page at high
speed, you could use regular pots and get higher resolution by reading the
paddle input more often.

caveat: I'm unfamiliar with the gs.

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