27 Nov
2007
27 Nov
'07
9:30 a.m.
On Nov 26, 2007 6:21 PM, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at usap.gov> wrote:
Yes, I'm thinking of trying that. I think I still have an old 8-bit
ISA mono card and appropriate monitor kicking around somewhere (though
my 1084(?) with the C128-80col cable could work). Janus puts up a PC
screen with distorted characters that look like a BIOS boot screen
(all characters squeezed down to 2 lines or so)
Unfortunately,
the Sidecar has not survived the long years. It still
sort of works but does not boot up properly anymore, the floppy drive
shows a solid LED. I still have the full length MFM controller card
and the HD.
That should be diagnosable. You might be able to stick a video card
in the Sidecar rather than depend on the Janus libs for mapped video,
and see what it's trying to do. No Gary in an A1000... Gary appeared first in the A500
and A2000.
My mistake, I blame early-onset Alzheimer's. Or too much alcohol
during engineering undergrad.
Sorry... not anywhere close to Montreal, even when
I'm home, and I've never
owned a Sidecar. As for a mouse, try opening up an A500/A2000 mouse or two
to see if you could transplant the cable. The actual mouse innards are
simple - it transmits raw quadrature plus the 2 buttons over the DE9 - all
the work is done in the Amiga, unlike a "modern" PC mouse (but very much
like an old Microsoft "bus mouse").
I don't have a 500/2000 mouse unfortunately, tough I could probably
look on ePay for one. I have a third-party mouse - I think I bought
it as a replacement for the pregnant mouse that came with my 3000.
(Still have that one too, working - both the mouse and the 3000) The
third-party mouse looks like a generic mouse for that time (mid 90's)
but has 3 buttons - handy for when I was using NetBSD (0.9 or so) on
my 3000. Hmmmmm - X11 on 640x480 (or was that 400?) with 5megs of
ram (4 fast, 1 chip)...
Joe.