[Coco] A way to use a serial mouse? (was: Mouse (Bill))

[Willard Goosey]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 08:27:25AM -0700, Andrew wrote:
> I read this message, and no, there isn't a way to simply "re-wire" a 
> serial mouse to hook up to the coco, short of via an RS-232 pak and some 
> OS-9 drivers (and even then, IIRC there were issues?)...
> 
> But...
> 
> What about this (and maybe I should try it out, although I don't have 
> the time, I have all the hardware - hmm): Connect a serial/ps-2 mouse up 
> to an Arduino (or any other favorite microcontroller that has the right 
> ports, etc), then hook the Arduino up to the joystick port. The Arduino 

Many many moons ago (as in, sometime in the last century :) there was
a guy who built this, based on, IIRC, an HC11.  Worked fine, he was
going to look into a production run, and we never heard from him
again. :-(

Willard
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