[Coco] Mouse serial?

[L. Curtis Boyle]

Correction - “Isted”, not “Istead”.

L. Curtis Boyle
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> On Apr 14, 2017, at 7:42 PM, L. Curtis Boyle <curtisboyle at sasktel.net> wrote:
> 
> 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.
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> L. Curtis Boyle
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>> On Apr 14, 2017, at 6:29 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net <mailto:gheskett at shentel.net>> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>>> Asunto: Re: [Coco] Mouse serial?
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>>> 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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