Patrick Ford said,
> On 13-Aug-00, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>>> I've used NewMouse with A2000 and A4000 standard serial ports (all Amiga
>>>> serial ports are the same),
>>
>>> No they are not. One of the serial mouse driver's docs makes that
>>> point, and says it is for A1200 only.
>>
>> In what way is the A1200 port different from all the others?
> I have no idea, but the software was described as being for A1200
> only. I tried it on A3000 and A4000 and all it would do was zap
> insanely around the screen making random clicks and menu selections
> with any movement of the mouse.
Is that due to serial port differences, or some other firmware
difference? All use the same CIAs and Paula to drive the port, I suspect
this driver relies on some A1200 trickery.
> It would have been only a matter of
> time before it formatted drives or deleted files.
Maybe you were running the windows version :)
>> MicroSoft mice are good, as are their keyboards. It's their software
>> that sucks.
> There is something wrong with their implementation of middle button
> even on PCs compared to Mouse Systems.
How can their implementation be wrong when they invented them and set
the standards. We didn't even have mice until Microsoft invented them...
>> It used the Microsoft standard before Microsoft defined it as their
>> standard :-O
> OK. This is all quite mysterious to me. One of the mouse/driver
> combinations I tried I used worked on A4000 serial but not on A3000
> serial. Also, one worked on GVP with driver, but not with Amiga mouse port
> adapter. Overall, the mouse port adapter has been a better solution,
> but it was a bit expensive, at about a third of the price of a serial
> card.
The mouse port adaptor is better anyway, you don't need a separate
mouse for early-startup stuff.
Neil
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