[Coco] NitrOS-9 serial mouse driver?

[Christian Lesage]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 25 April 2009, Christian Lesage wrote:
>   
>> Has someone ever written a serial mouse driver for NitrOS-9? I'm
>> planning on building my own RS-232 interface, which will be compatible
>> with the Deluxe RS-232 Pak, and that would be one of its potential uses.
>>
>> Christian
>>
>>     
> Yes.  I did one about a year ago, almost from scratch as I couldn't make heads 
> nor tails out of the one we had.  I don't know if it ever made it into the 
> 3.2.8 niros9 repo or not.  It handles either M$ or Logitek serial mice, aauto 
> switching the minor protocol diffs between them, and its 2 known warts are, 
> the machine won't boot if the mouse isn't working, and I'm not sure the 2nd & 
> third button data is in the right bits of a mouse packet.  And of course if 
> using it with a stock res-232 deluxe pack, the address will need to be edited, 
> mine is at the next 4 byte address block above the stock pack as I have made a 
> dual port from mine with a set of piggy-backed chips.
>
> Boisy?
>
>   

Thank you, Gene and Robert. Knowing that some code has been written will 
encourage me to start and finish this project!

Christian