[Coco] Mouse serial?

[L. Curtis Boyle]

The serial mouse drivers for OS-9/NitrOS-9 were by Bruce Istead, and support the Microsoft mouse (2 button) and Logitech mouse (3 button) serial packets (3 and 5 byte packets, respectively, from what I remember). They also worked both with the 6551 (Tandy RS-232 Pack) and 6552 (Eliminator, etc.) serial chips.

L. Curtis Boyle
curtisboyle at sasktel.net



> On Apr 14, 2017, at 6:29 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:
> 
> On Friday 14 April 2017 19:44:34 Luis Fernández wrote:
> 
>> Interesting, and that resolution has that driver, since to emulate it
>> well in VCC I have to have more info
>> 
> It depended on the screen, but was most at home with multivue, which was 
> a 320 x 240 screen. I had my own copy of multivue trained to use all 3 
> buttons. but that didn't survive the module breakup.  Darn it.
>> 
>> ________________________________
>> De: Coco <coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com> en nombre de Gene Heskett
>> <gheskett at shentel.net> Enviado: viernes, 14 de abril de 2017 07:22
>> p.m.
>> Para: coco at maltedmedia.com
>> Asunto: Re: [Coco] Mouse serial?
>> 
>> On Friday 14 April 2017 17:37:19 Luis Fernández wrote:
>>> Thinking things like the crazy ones, it occurs to me that because a
>>> serial PC mouse is not used by the serial port of COCO and with a
>>> suitable driver it is possible to have high resolution of Joystick /
>>> mouse Or is this not possible?
>> 
>> I did this quite some time back Luis, a decade or more. In my case
>> using an extra set of chips in a deluxe rs-232 pack.  With an old 3
>> button DeXxa mouse, its a pleasure to use.  The driver is in nitros9.
>> But IIRC, you will need to hack the address as neither my mouse, or
>> the first port in that pack are living at the OEM addresses. IIRC,
>> mine are at $FF68 and $FF6C.  IIRC...
>> 
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