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Article #36711Re: alternative mice
From: Bill Hendricks
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1989 15:30
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1989 15:30
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Well, I went right out and bought a Commodore 1351 mouse last night, (at Toys R Us, for $39.88!) and raced home to try it. <grin> I checked the pinout assignments of the ST mouse (found in the ST owner's manual) against those of the Comm. mouse, and was happy to see that they are identical. <grin> So, after carefully carving approx. 1/8" of plastic from the opening around the mouse connector on the ST, I plugged in the C= mouse... no go. <frown> Reading the Commodore doc, I found that this mouse has two modes of operation: joystick and proportional...neither of which is compatible with the ST. <frown> I *was* able to swap the guts of the Commodore mouse with those of the ST mouse, and with some finagling, got the ST hardware working inside the (IMHO) preferable Comm. mouse housing. However, that does not address the problem of a direct replacement for a faulty ST mouse. Sorry. So much for that idea. Maybe I'll look into the possibility of the Amiga mouse working, assuming it's different from the 1351. Has anyone out there already done this? Regards, Bill
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!fozzy!hendrick From: hendrick@fozzy.UUCP (Bill Hendricks) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: alternative mice Summary: Tried it... no go. Keywords: mouse, ST Message-ID: <271@fozzy.UUCP> Date: 23 Feb 89 15:30:24 GMT References: <270@fozzy.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: Rockwell International - Richardson, Texas Lines: 29