[Coco] Re: MESS mouse and keyboard question

[James Goff]

Nathan Woods wrote:

> I would actually recommend against using MESS with NitrOS9 3.0; there 
> is a nasty disk corruption bug that causes disks to be garbled with 
> NitrOS9 on MESS.

Appreciate the heads up on the disk bug.

>> What do you need to do to use your pc's mouse to act as a coco mouse 
>> on a hi-res controller.  I am using Mess's GUI and haven't been able 
>> to find a way to enable the mouse as either a joystick or a hires 
>> mouse under os9.
>
>
> If you are running the MESS GUI front end, be sure to click "Enable 
> Mouse".  Additionally, you need to go into Options->Configuration at 
> runtime to enable the Hi-Res interface.

Will try this and also Robert Gault's comments.

>> Second question is when using the natural keyboard instead of 
>> emulated what key do you press to switch screens under OS9.
>
>
> Actually I'm not sure on that one; I do not know much about OS9 so I 
> have a dumb question:  What key does the trick when running as an 
> emulated keyboard?  If I recall right, it is the Clear key which by 
> default is mapped to Home.  If so, this should work under the natural 
> keyboard.  If it doesn't, let me know.


Clear key is used on coco, Home key works under emulated keyboard but 
not natural keyboard.

Thanks for your quick response.  It's always nice to get the info right 
from the people on the front lines.

James