20 May
2001
20 May
'01
10:11 p.m.
On May 21, 3:26, Iggy Drougge wrote:
rewiring
Pete Turnbull skrev:
If you'd ever dare take away my third button,
I'd make the rest of your
life
very short and painful, Peter. =)
Sorry, I'd never seen a 3-button mouse on an Amiga. Sounds reasonable
enough.
>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).
Now, there's a funny project: removing all the encoding circuitry and the Sun mouse in order to make it an Amiga compatible
quadrature mouse!
There's a web page somewhere describing exactly how to do that for a
Microsoft mouse.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
21 May
21 May
7:24 a.m.
--- Pete Turnbull <pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com> wrote:
I've seen that with a MicroSoft Bus Mouse - you wack off the funny 8-pin
MS connector and stick on a nine-pin Amiga connector and you are done. I
haven't seen anyone attempt to convert a serial mouse to raw quadrature.
I suppose it could be done.
-ethan
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Now,
there's a funny project: removing all the encoding circuitry and
rewiring the Sun mouse in order to make it an Amiga compatible quadrature
mouse!
There's a web page somewhere describing exactly how to do that for a
Microsoft mouse. 
2:35 p.m.
Ethan Dicks skrev:
--- Pete Turnbull <pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com>
wrote:
> > Now, there's a funny project: removing all the encoding circuitry and
> > rewiring the Sun mouse in order to make it an Amiga compatible quadrature
> mouse!
>
> There's a web page somewhere describing exactly how to do that for a
> Microsoft mouse.
I've seen that with a MicroSoft Bus Mouse - you
wack off the funny 8-pin
MS connector and stick on a nine-pin Amiga connector and you are done. I
haven't seen anyone attempt to convert a serial mouse to raw quadrature.
I suppose it could be done.
There's a description at the NetBSD/atari page.
--
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If you don't know what it does, don't worry about it.
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9:24 a.m.
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2:39 p.m.
Tony Duell skrev:
> Sorry, I'd never seen a 3-button mouse on an
Amiga. Sounds reasonable
> enough.
A number of years ago, Maplin sold replacement mice for
the ST and Amiga.
Both were quadrature-output devices (plain, TTL signals), with different
wiring to the DE9 socket. And IIRC, the Amiga one was 3 button and the ST
one 2 button.
The ST can use 3-button mice as well, but the software support really isn't as
extensive.
I used those mice (with a connector change) as
replacement mice for my
Mac+ (2 button, buttons wired in parallel), Archimedes (3 button),
Amstrad PC2086 (2 button IIRC), and so on. I was mildly annoyed when
Maplin discontinued them and only sold PC-mice....
My 3-button mouse, manufacturer unknown (I think it's some kind of OEM
construction, though) is really running on its last leg. The only thing which
keeps it working is a big blob of tape in order to twist the cable in the
right direction.
It's rather obvious that I'm the absolute opposite of Tony when it comes to
electronics, isn't it?
--
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/* in its mouth... */
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