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In <hjv.721933634@groucho.phil.ruu.nl> hjv@phil.ruu.nl (Hendrik Jan Veenstra) writes:

>otv@hal.nta.no (Oddvar Tveito FTO) writes:

>>My ATARI dealer sold me a mouse for my STe 1040 which frequently starts
>>to wander around the screen by itself - without me touching the mouse.
>>The problem is of course that in some programs, if it pulls down a menu,
>>the program will not respond to keyboard inputs.  

>>My dealer tells me this is common to all non-atari mice, and is due to
>>"very strong signals from the mouse".

What a load of   it.

I have a non-atari mouse that also exhibits this behavious.  It is a "xydexzc"
(or something like that - white with orange symbol/name).

It has a switch on the bottom to switch between Amiga and Atari mouse.  And guess
what - it exhibits similar behaviour on the Amiga, except that there it vibrates
rather than wandering, but that's just the different way Amigas and Ataris
use the 4 mouse input lines.  (ie. on the Atari, the mouse is oscilating the
"move now" strobe, while on the Amiga, it oscilates the "direction" strobe,
effectively)

It doesn't bother me... much.

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