delman@vax.oxford.ac.uk (06/12/91)
This is a re-post. The first one seems to failed, didn't even reached our local site. Can someone give me some low-level information on the Microsoft bus mouse, please? Things like 1) which I/O ports are used by it and 2) what do they mean, e.g. bits in the status or control bytes. Thanks in advance! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Delman Lee Dept. of Engineering Science, Oxford University, Parks Road, Internet & BITNET: delman@sun.eng.ox.ac.uk Oxford, OX1 3PJ, U.K.. JANET: delman@uk.ac.ox.eng.sun ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
sorrow@oak.circa.ufl.edu (06/13/91)
Geez, all my previous ranting and raving and your site DIDN'T EVEN GET IT! ARGH! Well, never mind then. All I can say is to get the "Logitech Mouse Programmers Toolkit and Reference". It includes a wonderful reference (including low level stuff -- ports, line conditions, byte stream, etc.), INT33H interface code in ASM, C, and Mod-2, etc. and it is only 25 dollars. Available direct from Logitech. If someone tells you to get the Microsoft Mouse PRogrammer's Reference, DON'T. It's a piece of crap. Period. Doesn't cover different memory models, doesn't do anything low level (the lowest it goes is interrupts -- which you can get from Ralf Brown's interrupt list), spends over half the book talking about using the mouse driver and mouse menus (whooptie-doo), etc. The Logitech number is 1-415-795-0801 Brian /* Brian Hook -- MS-DOS Programmer for Contract ----------------------------------------------------------------- "Seamus, that's my dog...I saw her today at the reception...sorry, sixTEEN inches....better save the women and children first...but this one goes to 11! ..anymore of that plutonium nyborg?....there can be only ONE!....like a finger pointing to the moon....ease the seat back...one day closer to death */