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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Help
Keywords: mouse,bload
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Date: 20 Oct 88 22:02:26 GMT
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In article <12418@eecae.UUCP> conklin@eecae.UUCP (Terry Conklin) writes:
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>The Atari ST mouse is identical to the Atari TRUE trackball
>device. We realized this one day when we discovered we could

Hate to disagree with you, Terry, but it ain't so. I bought an Atari
trackball for my ST. (Hate the little mouse. The buttons feel awful,
and the plastic nubs on the bottom of the mouse scratch the hell out
of tabletops...) In true trackball mode, without any modification,
the trackball would only move the cursor in the -X and -Y directions.
I.e., after rolling the ball every which way for a few turns, the
cursor vanished somewhere in the upper left corner of the display.

Granted, it's a really simple mod to make it work perfectly on an ST.
But it's not identical, right out of the box.
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