Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!ncar!boulder!pikes!udenva!isis!csm9a!japplega From: japplega@csm9a.UUCP (Joe Applegate) Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy Subject: Re: Tandy Printer + PC Compatible Query Message-ID: <1415@csm9a.UUCP> Date: 12 Apr 89 19:59:22 GMT References: <1370@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu! <136500014@cpe! <1407@csm9a.UUCP! <834@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> Organization: Colorado School of Mines Lines: 45 In article <834@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>, bevans@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Brian Evans) writes: > > The DigiMouse IS Microsoft Mouse compaitble. In fact, the driver > they give you IS the Microsoft Mouse driver. You are correct... it was made by MicroSoft but it was made to Tandy Specs... The driver that comes with it is equivelent to vs. 1 of the MS Mouse. The hardware uses a different interrupt and different addressing from the IBM version and newer versions of the MS Mouse software and their menu manger do not work... the software also has a major bug that causes it to leave trails (shadows?) in the 640X200 BW mode, thus making it useless for MS Word. It also does not work with Windows which has it's own Mouse driver in it's overlay! A few years back I talked to some folks at MS who told me that they offered to make Tandy Digi-Mouse versions of their newer drivers, fix the Word bug, and write a windows driver for the Digi-Mouse but Tandy chose not to pay to support the customers who had bought the product (on the promise of MS compatiblity I might add!)... instead choosing to tell their customers to buy another mouse! I offered and still offer to try to fix the driver and support it in the public domain if only Tandy will release the source! MS said it is Tandy's option! In our users group alone their were 10 people with Digi-Mice on their Tandy 1000 or 1000A... and they are perhaps the most vocally opposed to Tandy... What I want to know is that once Tandy has suceeded in totally alienated their user base what will they do next? It's so easy to say... ok here is the source for the mouse, if you can fix the bugs fine... after all they don't sell the thing anymore... and in one conversation I had with Fast Eddy Juge, he denied they ever sold it! Of course they could offer a mother board to upgrade the 1000 to an SX or SL also... but why please customers when you can SELL... SELL... SELL... "Get em out by Friday.... I've always said that Cash... Cash... Cash... can do anything well!" Peter Gabriel - Joe Applegate - ======================STANDARD DISCLAIMER============================ All views and opinions are my own and do not represent the views or opinions of the Colorado School of Mines, whatever they might be. =====================================================================