21 May
2001
21 May
'01
2:02 a.m.
At 12:35 AM 5/21/01 +0000, you wrote:
Are you sure? AFAIK, all Amiga mice are dumb
quadrature mice with two
buttons, and their interface consists of 5V power, ground, four quadrature
signals (2 for X and 2 for Y) and two button signals. A Sun mouse has a
proprietary encoded interface that uses three (or four?) wires. I suppose
you could rig one up to a serial port, if you wrote a suitable driver
(might also need a level translator).
I remember that Dale Luck, one of the original Amiga engineers,
sold a mirror-pad mouse, and I thought I remember him telling
me it was actually a Sun-compatible mouse. Of course, this
would mean compatible with Suns as of 1986 or earlier, and
not today's.
I'll readily accept that my memory of this could be faulty.
Perhaps a better question would be "Circa 1986, which off-the-shelf
mouse technologies were compatible with the Amiga mouse?"
I have an original GfxBase optical mouse on my A2000. The bottom
says "Mouse Systems - Manufactured by MSC Technologies, Fremont,
CA, etc. Model M4. MSC 40215-001/B S/N MSC CZ097242".
- John