> I wonder if anyone can help with the following questions.
>
> What is the purpose of "mousehack"? As far as I can tell, it seems to
> bypass interrupts (in keyboard.c:pollmouse()), and instead implements
> a SWI (in keyboard.c:getosmouse()). Why?
It's so that the mouse pointer in RISC OS matches the position of the pointer
in Windows/Linux. With mousehack turned off only the motion is matched - which
(if the mouse isn't trapped within the window, as is done on Windows) means two
pointers on screen in different locations.
> Another question: in pollmouse(), the line "if (model) return;" can be
> found. As far as I can tell from grepping the sources, "model" is set
> to 0 if emulating an ARM7500, so why do we have special treatment for
> ARM7500s?
ARM7500 emulates a PS/2 mouse, IOMD emulates quadrature. When emulating an IOMD
RISC OS refuses to use PS/2 (as it isn't there), I don't know if ARM7500 allows
use of quadrature (ARM7500 emulation predates IOMD).
Tom
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