Pete Turnbull skrev:
>On May 20, 8:26, John Foust wrote:
>> At 11:19 PM 5/19/01 -0400, Claude.W wrote:
>> >I grew up using Commodore equipement at home.
>> >1 Sun Mouse (what was that doing in there?)
>>
>> I seem to remember that a Sun mouse was quite similar
>> to an Amiga mouse. In particular, the ones that required
>> a reflective mouse pad were quite fashionable.
>Are you sure? AFAIK, all Amiga mice are dumb quadrature mice with two
>buttons,
If you'd ever dare take away my third button, I'd make the rest of your life
very short and painful, Peter. =)
> and their interface consists of 5V power, ground, four quadrature
>signals (2 for X and 2 for Y) and two button signals.
Pin 5 takes a third button if you have one. Many mice do.
>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 rewiring
the Sun mouse in order to make it an Amiga compatible quadrature mouse!
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