[comp.sys.atari.st.tech] mouse wires- what about the C64 mouse?

avgroeni@cs.ruu.nl (Annius Groenink) (04/15/91)

  A short while ago I saw a message on this group about
converting ST-AMIGA mouses. Questions:

  1)  Is the C64 (GEOS) mouse system the same as the AMIGA mouse and
      if so,

  1b) What exactly were the wires to swap?


  thanks in advance (please e-mail)


Annius Groenink
AVGROENI@CS.RUU.NL

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Daniel_Roedding@fiction.ms.sub.org (04/17/91)

avgroeni@cs.ruu.nl (Annius Groenink) writes:

>   1)  Is the C64 (GEOS) mouse system the same as the AMIGA mouse and
>       if so,

>   1b) What exactly were the wires to swap?

Hmm ... I doubt this will work. What I did some years ago was to put an ST
mouse into a C 64. I wrote a simple driver program for it (<200 bytes 6502
code :-), it really worked!! It was the best mouse at all (much better than
all these pseudo-joystick mouses I'd seen before), but unfortunately no
commercial program was compatible to it. So only my own programs supported
this little hack.

Daniel