[Coco] Color Computer Mouse Question

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 27 October 2013 21:43:52 Mark J. Blair did opine:

> On Oct 27, 2013, at 18:25 , "Theodore (Alex) Evans" 
<alxevans at concentric.net> wrote:
> > The Radio shack mouse used incremental encoders internally, but
> > produced an output that simulated two potentiometers the same way as
> > the Wico trackball controller for the CoCo operates.
> 
> Wow, that's odd! Was there any way to get access to the encoder pulses
> in order to get better than 64x64 resolution with standard CoCo
> hardware?

FWIW, my seriel mouse has whatever resolution the screen its running on 
has, or a subset of 192 vertical x 320 horizontal IIRC.  IIRC the multivue 
interface decimates that down to the multivue screens resolution.  Does 3 
buttons too.

Cheers, Gene
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