[comp.sys.cbm] NEOS mouse

U448025@HNYKUN11.BITNET (Jos Grote Punt) (02/24/89)

About a year ago I bought the NEOS mouse from NIHON electronics. I was looking
for a proportional mouse (cheaper then Commodore's 1351) to use with GEOS.
At home I found that the 1351 driver didn't work with this mouse. A friend of
mine helped me with constructing a new GEOS input driver. We used a disassembly
of the program CHEESE that came with the mouse. The new driver works fine but
there is one problem: I can't use the keyboard.
This is a hardware problem as it's mentioned in the manual. The cause is the
fact that the 64 has one chip (the CIA) to manage both the keyboard and the
joysticks. Does anyone know if there's a solution, either in hardware or in
software? I'm thinking about a little switch at the mouse-plug.

Please E-mail me directly since here on BITNET I have no acces to comp.sys.cbm.

Jos Grote Punt
Institute for General Practitioners (NUHI)
Dept. of Medicine
University of Nymegen
The Netherlands

electronic address: U448025 at HNYKUN11.BITNET