21 May
2001
21 May
'01
11:56 a.m.
Tony Duell skrev:
One of the many projects on my 'to be hacked
sometime' list is a
converter from a serial mouse to a quadrature mouse port. Basically a
microcontroller that accepts messages from a serial mouse on one side,
and toggles some port lines to give quadrature output waveforms on the other.
Last time I mentioned this on this list, I was told you
could get such
interfaces commercially (I think it was mentioned that they were for the
Amiga, but I am not certain about that). Of course my reply, as ever, was
that I am not going to buy something that I can design myself :-).
I have no idea if such interfaces are still available,
though.
They still are. Typically, they have names like Mr. Mausiszja or Mr. Mysza.
Power Computing, amongst others, sell them. Then there a bloke in New Zeeland,
called Mario Becroft, who makes one for both the Atari and Amiga.
There are similar devices for PS/2 keyboards, too.
--
En ligne avec Thor 2.6a.
Scandinavian countries, especially Sweden, [have] alarmed the more doctrinaire
exponents of a revolutionary (as opposed to evolutionary) modern architecture
by specializing in a cosy domesticity which appears to turn its back on many
of modern architecture's spectacular achievements; not by reviving period
styles, but by preferring traditional building techniques and materials and
putting the highest value on charm of character and a close accord between
building and landscape.
J.M. Richards, Modern Architecture