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Article #36088

Re: INIT 30, Fancy Mouse Tracking

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From: Victor O'Rear
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 1989 00:34
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In article <23342@apple.Apple.COM> tecot@Apple.COM (Ed Tecot) writes:
>In article <65919@ti-csl.CSNET> holland@m2.UUCP (Fred Hollander) writes:
>>In article <22462@apple.Apple.COM> tecot@Apple.COM (Ed Tecot) writes:
>>>Prior to Macintosh II, there were only 2 mouse speeds.  INIT 30 replaces
>>>this with the five speeds now available today.  It is not needed for the
>>>Mac II, as it is in ROM.
>>
>>I'd like more!  I know there's a commercial CDEV that does this, but, $50
>>for the ability to change 8 bytes in memory seems too high.  Does anyone
>>know how to get a handle to these 8 bytes?  I couldn't find anything in
>>IM or tech notes.
>
>It's in the system file.  Resources 'mcky' numbered 0 to 4 are the ones to
>change.  0 is tablet, 4 is fastest.
>
>						_emt

There is also a CDEV called Pointing Device 1.2 that will modify the mcky
resources.  I thought I got it off comp.binaries, but I will send to the
moderator if he asks.

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From: victoro@crash.cts.com (Victor O'Rear)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: INIT 30, Fancy Mouse Tracking
Keywords: INIT, Installer
Message-ID: <3675@crash.cts.com>
Date: 8 Jan 89 00:34:35 GMT
References: <8420@ut-emx.UUCP> <22462@apple.Apple.COM> <65919@ti-csl.CSNET> <23342@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: victoro@crash.CTS.COM (Dr. Snuggles)
Organization: Crash TS, El Cajon, CA
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