[Coco] Color Computer Mouse Question
Gene Heskett
gheskett at wdtv.com
Sun Oct 27 21:48:36 EDT 2013
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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