[Coco] MESS mouse and keyboard question
James Goff
james at churchpage.us
Wed Oct 29 21:50:00 EST 2003
Robert Gault wrote:
>There are some bugs in NitrOS-9 (recent versions) which prevent the joystick
>functions from working correctly. I can't tell you which NitrOS-9 versions work
>but for them to work, MESS must be configured correctly by selecting the mouse
>function in the gui.
>
>To use your PC mouse as the Coco joystick you must turn off the MESS gui menu
>bar (toggles with ScrollLock key). Switching between the keyboard mouse and
>joystick is done with the CTRL+HOME keys. This assumes you have a version of
>NitrOS-9 that functions correctly.
>
>As for switching screens with a "natural" key selection, this may be a MESS bug.
>I can't find any key that works. Emulated keyboard switches with the HOME key.
>
>
>
I've switched to OS9 L2 until they get the bugs out of Nitros9 / MESS.
I followed your steps to enable the mouse and it worked great!
Thanks for your help.
James
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