Re: Desktop picture problems....Help!

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

"David Wilson" <david@uow.edu.au> wrote in message
news:3c942add$1@news.uow.edu.au...
> dalloff@gcfn.org (Dave Althoff Jr) writes:
>
> >Anybody know how to adapt an ADB mouse to a PC mouse port?  8-)
>
> Should be possible. I was going to build a small board to do the reverse.
> A single chip PIC micro should have enough processor power to convert
> ADB to PS/2 or vice versa. Both protocols are sufficiently well documented
> (AFAIK).

You can use a PC serial mouse on an ADB Mac by making a DB... -er- DE-9 to
DIN 8 adapter, using one of the Mac serial ports, and using a freeware
control panel.  I should think you could do the same with a IIgs and
probably other A2's, if someone wrote the software.
-Paul