Re: Buggy Mouse Interface

[buggie@ben06.unm.edu (stephen e buggie)]

Don't call it a "Buggy mouse."  Call it a "non-working mouse" instead.

We of the Buggie Clan are always on guard against denigration of our
surname..... ;-)

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I too have two non-working IIE mouse cards.  Can anyone advise on
repairing them???   There are no components that are obviously cooked....

Steve Buggie




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Galen Tatsuo Komatsu (gkomatsu@Hawaii.Edu) wrote:
: 	Dumb question, but I'll ask anyway, since, well, I don't know.

: 	I have a Mouse Interface card I decided to test (since someone
: wanted to buy it.)  I presume I just plug the thing in (Slot 4 rev.B //e)
: and connect a mouse and individual software will take it from there.

: 	I dug up whatever mouse using software I have and tried things.
: Flobynoid would lock up during the second disk access (before the
: options screen.)  The one time I did make it as far as the game, it
: didn't respond to the mouse. (And locked up when returning to options.
: 	Next I tried Balance of Power, no mouse option appeared.
: 	Finally I tried an issue of Softdisk, crashed on booting.
: I thought I had a disk that went bad.

: 	Denying the possibility all my disks suddenly went bad I pulled
: out the mouse interface and tried things again.  Softdisk booted fine.
: Flobynoid worked without problem and I managed to clear about 2/3 of
: the bricks having no control over the paddle. =^)  Didn't try BoP since
: it wasn't bombing earlier.

: 	Seems this interface card is causing things to crash.  Any
: thoughts?  Card seems too bulky to use as a cool bookmark.

: --- These people owe me stuff ---
: Josh Smith (aka "itsme")   :  $17.00 + various specified videogame items
:      (http://www2.hawaii.edu/~gkomatsu/JSmith/js.html)
: Ben Cureton ("tragic")     :  $85.00