Teo Zenios wrote:
I have a Mouse Systems M4 model optical mouse that
came with my Amiga 3000 but does not have the special mousepad needed for it, any way to
fake one of those pads?
The only other available mouse I have is for the A1000 and has an angled connector that
won't fit unless I jack the A3000 case up a few inches.
How well did the M4s work anyway? I did plug it in to my machine and the buttons seem to
work but I could not find a printed patterrn that would make the cursor do anything but
barely move (The red LED does light up). I tend to like optical mice so this would be cool
to have functioning.
I'm not familiar with this mouse, however there are two possibilities.
The Xerox Star used an optical mouse which worked on a pad containing a
pattern of dots. This can be xeroxed and the xerox works just fine.
That said, with mine, I managed to get it working just fine on a
tablecloth that had a bumpy square pattern, but it worked on almost any
rough surface. You might try something with rough bumps?
The other optical mouse that requires a special pad came with early Sun
workstations. It looked a bit, well, holographic. It had a bunch of
dots in it that reflected different based on where the mouse was.
Perhaps you might be able to obtain this kind of mouse pad for it?