[Coco] Webpage Update - Hires Mouse

[Barry Nelson]

Ok, as I understand it, the following is true…
The new hires mouse driver works with standard mice and joysticks. No special hardware is required.
The OS-9 mouse values are always scaled to the current screen resolution.
So…
Why not use the new driver by default instead of the current one to read the mouse/joystick, with an option to switch to the hardware hires driver that uses the cassette port, and just get rid of the old standard driver altogether? Since the output vales are scaled, existing programs would still receive the same expected range of values, just with greater precision.

> Bill Pierce ooogalapasooo at aol.com 
> Thu Oct 29 12:50:37 EDT 2015
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> Thanks John, that's about what I had determined in looking at the code and comparing it to the existing OS9 driver.
> I think the addition could be added fairly easy, I'm just not sure in what module the code would be found to activate it.
> I know it's done through the SetStat function, but I don't know which module handles this particular function to activate the hires or normal mouse modes. In this code is where the addition would have to be to add the new option.
> To change modes, you copy the mouse packet to user memory with a getstat call, change the Pt.Res value, then use setstat to return it to system. From that point, all mouse reads will use that flag to determine which mode to use.
> The joyport drive is easily changed to redirect the program flow to the new mode as after it inits the ports, it check Pt.Res and jumps to the proper code based on the value there, but I'm sure there's a failsafe where ever that setstat falls to eliminate invalid values.. that's where the new value for the new mode would be added. If not, then it's even easier :-)
> You just add another conditional branch at the point it branches to lores or hires.
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