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Commodore 128 => Herdware => Topic started by: Mark Smith on November 24, 2009, 07:43 PM

Title: DIY mouse adapter
Post by: Mark Smith on November 24, 2009, 07:43 PM
The talk of mice in another thread reminded me of a link I came across on Zimmers.net

http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/documents/projects/interfaces/mouse/Mouse.html (http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/documents/projects/interfaces/mouse/Mouse.html)

Might be of interest to people.

Mark
Title: Re: DIY mouse adapter
Post by: SmallCleverDinosaur on November 24, 2009, 10:06 PM
There is also the commercial product Micromys from Individual Computers:

http://www.vesalia.de/e_micromys.htm (http://www.vesalia.de/e_micromys.htm)


(http://www.commodore128.org.uk/images/forumpics/Micromys_thm.jpg) (http://www.commodore128.org.uk/images/forumpics/Micromys.jpg)

To read about what it can do, you can download the manual here (http://www.commodore128.org.uk/books/Micromys%20V3%20manual.pdf).
Title: Re: DIY mouse adapter
Post by: Mark Smith on November 25, 2009, 04:37 AM
Just a minor warning about the Micromys .. it doesn't physically fit on port 1 of the flat C128s :-(

Apart from that it works great and does everything it says it does! Once I find a suitable small D9 connector I'll try and swap the big black D9 on the Micromys.

Oh the only other "issue" is that modern mice have a much higher sensitivity than the old 1351, which means if you move them to fast on a C64/128 strange things happen to the mouse pointer, tries to loop back on itself or appears in random locations .. guess the modern mice send data faster than a CBM is expecting :-)

Mark
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