[Coco] Mouse serial?

[Gene Heskett]

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...
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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