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From: bmacintyre@watsol.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Mouse movement
Message-ID: <8378@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 30 Aug 88 19:48:59 GMT
References: <8471@cup.portal.com>
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In article <8471@cup.portal.com> MJB@cup.portal.com writes:
>In preferences, I have moved the "mouse speed ratio thingie" to get max 
>movement (most screen movement for the least physical movement), but the ratio
>isn't high enough for me. Now for the questions:
>    1) Does the preferences "... ratio thingie" actually represent the min and
>       max values possible (hardware), or is the range of this ratio just what
>       CBM thought most users would need?

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away ( ok, back in early 86 :-) I read
something about the mouse movement thing that said that if you set the
ratio value to the max value possible ( for whatever kind of data type
it is in ) you would have to move the mouse ~1mile to move the pointer
across the screen ... seemed to make sence then, but who knows.

Makes a neat story though ... :-)

This would seem to imply to me that the ratio is a software thing, but
if you want the mouse to move faster, not slower, you will have to use
something else like, say, DMOUSE (great work, Matt).

			-Blair

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