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- From: gene_heskett@wvlink.mpl.com (Gene Heskett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Amiga Rodent Trouble
- Date: 04 Feb 96 16:32:37 +0500
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- WB> Bill Harvey (bharvey@mhaug.uumh.ab.ca) wrote:
- WB>: Hi all
- WB>: my mouse is on the way out (microswitch) can I use any mouse ie
- WB>: one for a PC or has it got to be an Amiga only, while I'm at it
- WB>: the same goes for Joysticks.
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- WB> Standard PC mice will not work on the Amiga mouse port unless
- WB> modified. If you have an extra serial port, there is driver
- WB> software to use PC serial mice on the Amiga. Both this software
- WB> and instructions on modifying PC mice can be found in the
- WB> hard/hack or hard/drivr directories of Aminet. Software Hut was
- WB> selling original A1000 mice for $14.95, and these original mice
- WB> lasted quite well, although you'll probably need a DB9 extension
- WB> cable to attach it to non-A1000 models. This is the type of
- WB> mouse with the sliding door to take out the ball; the later ones
- WB> with the rotating door were not as tough. (I'm still using my
- WB> original A1000 mouse on the A4000, although the switches have
- WB> been replaced twice.)
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- WB> The situation is similar with joysticks. I eventually got tired
- WB> of cheap joysticks and built one out of "real" (coin-op) arcade
- WB> game components.
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- Warren, note that the switch in the commie mouse *can* be replaced with
- what is really a generic switch commonly used in the front door controls of
- cheap tv's, see your friendly neighborhood tv repairman. Even the 3 button
- Swifty which I use, and which has teeny microswitches in it can be fixed by
- cannabalizing a switch from the nearest $10 PC mouse! I've done it twice
- now to this one.
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