34HLEFG@CMUVM.BITNET (Mark Strandskov) (09/05/90)
A friend of my is looking for a better mouse. Specifically, he wants to be able to trace an existing printed drawing. Drawing object freehand with the Amiga mouse is not the easiest thing to do. I suggested the Easyl and he considered it but he wants to know if there is a cheaper solution. Even a mouse with cross-hairs would be an acceptable solution for him. Does anyone have any good suggestions? Please reply directly to me and I will summarize to the list if there are enough responses. It is hard for me to keep up with all the mail on this list as well as the others which I try to read. Thanks. Mark Strandskov Central Michigan University
jea@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Joanne Albano) (09/06/90)
This is a follow up to the person who requested information about drawing tools on the amiga. Seems that there are about 3 models of input devices: the Easyl, another high end pad I forgot the name, and the Kurta pads. The light pen is another possible choice although I would like to hear from someone that uses it. The Easyl hooks on the bus I believe and therefore is specific to the type of AMIGA you have. If you have an A1000 with lots of stuff hanging off the side I guessed there might be problems with this arrangement. I have just started using a model of the Kurta pad and it has a cordless drawing puck (mouse with a cross-hair) that draws in absolute cordinates for tracing. It is small and compact and attaches to the serial port. I like this idea a lot because it makes the pad non specific to the machine model. It also leaves my bus free. The puck is light and I have adapted easily to it rather and a pen type arrangement. I like being able to go back and forth between the mouse and the puck in Magnify mode when absolute position is irrelevant and one is touching up pixels. Come on people lets talk more about what we are doing with the machine rather than what we wish we could do with it if only we had this other widget. Joanne