| Title: | Atari ST, TT, & Falcon |
| Notice: | Please read note 1.0 and its replies before posting! |
| Moderator: | FUNYET::ANDERSON |
| Created: | Mon Apr 04 1988 |
| Last Modified: | Tue May 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1433 |
| Total number of notes: | 10312 |
I would like to connect a Makintosh (sp?) mouse to my ST.
The reason is it's far more responsive and i prefer it !
The ST mouse (as we all know) has 2 buttons - and so does
the Mac mouse - so i can't see any problem with the buttons
etc..
The only problem is the wiring. The ST is male and the Mac
is female. I have connected (via a self-made gender bender)
to the ST and only some things work.
Does anyone know the pin reference of the Mac mouse to the
ST mouse ?
Waiting in keen anticipation.....
Lewis.
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| 712.1 | LEDS::ACCIARDI | Wed Dec 20 1989 10:29 | 4 | ||
Huh? In the US, all Macs come with a single-button mouse.
Ed.
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| 712.2 | oh dear - it was a clone ! | RUTILE::BISHOP | Thu Dec 21 1989 08:44 | 8 | |
Ed,
You are right. It wasn't a MAC mouse but it was an IBM clone
mouse. The kind that come with the amstrad pc's.
So does anyone know how to connect this mouse to the ST ?
Lewis.
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| 712.3 | That makes a diffrence | PRNSYS::LOMICKAJ | Jeffrey A. Lomicka | Thu Dec 21 1989 14:11 | 3 |
Clones *tend* to use serial mice. It's not possible to use the serial mouse to the ST without modifying the internals of the mouse. Of course, in a given PC implementation, anything may happen, so I can't be sure. | |||||
| 712.4 | cross wires ? | RUTILE::BISHOP | Thu Dec 21 1989 14:58 | 9 | |
Re: .3
I'm not intending to use mouse solely for pc implementation but
also for normal applications and games!
Bearing this in mind, can i not just cross the wires and get the
desired results? If so which wires go where?
Lewis.
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| 712.5 | Mouse options | PRNSYS::LOMICKAJ | Jeffrey A. Lomicka | Thu Dec 21 1989 15:37 | 22 |
There are two kinds of mice in the world. - Quadrature, such as the Atari mouse, Amiga mouse, the old rectangular DEC mouse. These can all be made to work on the Atari by just crossing the wires. If you have one such mouse, it should be no problem. These mice have 1-3 wires that correspond to the buttons (short to ground when pressed) and two signal wires for each axis. These signal wires pulse when the mose is moved. I have a Commodore mouse on one ST (well, Roy has it in his office in DSG). - Serial, such as the new round DEC mouse, Logitech C7, Summagraphics, most IBM-PC mice. These mice attach to an RS232 or similar serial port. They have TX data and RX data, and periodically send three-byte messages that contain the button data, and the relative X and Y offsets since the last report. To use one of these on the Atari is impossible. You could perhaps patch the O/S enough to use it on the serial port, but not in all cases, as some programs will access the mouse by directly manipulating the keyboard processor, which does not have a serial port that the mouse could be attached to. The burning question is, did Amstrad use a quadrature mouese in their implementation? | |||||