newton@gumby.cs.caltech.edu (Mike Newton) (03/27/91)
The DG AViiON mouse talks at 1200 baud to the CPU board in units of 5 bytes, with no char.s transmitted when no actions, using rs-232: char 0: status = (base=) 0x80 + (L up=)0x04 + (M up=)0x02 + (R up=)0x01 char 1: signed disp. of mouse in up-down char 2: signed disp. of mouse in right-left dir char 3: ?? (i believe associated with char 1 -- accel?) char 4: ?? (i believe associated with char 2 -- accel?) [Note: 'L up=' means the Left mouse button is up.] Question 1: what are char's 3 and 4? Question 2: is this the same as the ibm-pc-serial-port-mouse ? I reallly want to replace my mouse with a mechanical one.... (and a friend tells me there are ?? two different ibm-pc-serial-port-mouse types... if true, which style?). Many thanks, - mike (newton@gumby.cs.caltech.edu) ps: there are a bunch of peek/poke (mouse, tty, ..) `utilities' in the csvax archives under dg-io... . These are not for the faint at heart!!!
osmith@acorn.co.uk (Owen Smith) (04/02/91)
In article <newton.670062339@gumby> newton@gumby.cs.caltech.edu (Mike Newton) writes: >I reallly want >to replace my mouse with a mechanical one.... Can't see why - the Aviion mouse is by far the nicest mouse I've ever used, although the Logitech mechanical mouse on the Acorn Archimedes is quite good if you use a decent mouse mat. This is not a serial port mouse so you can't use one, but Logitech may do a serial version. What do you dislike about the Aviion mouse? Owen (ex Aviion user/programmer). The views expressed are my own and are not necessarily those of Acorn.