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Re: INIT 30, Fancy Mouse Tracking

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From: Ed Tecot
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 1989 23:45
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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
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From: tecot@Apple.COM (Ed Tecot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: INIT 30, Fancy Mouse Tracking
Keywords: INIT, Installer
Message-ID: <23342@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 4 Jan 89 23:45:23 GMT
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Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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