Re: Coupla things...

[dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <807405531wnr@klatch.demon.co.uk>,
John Le Febvre  <john@klatch.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I recently received some info from some UK sources (one user group and 
> one dealer) which had a couple of interesting points that I thought I 
> would bring up here.
> 
> 1.  A 'new' A2 interface card was mentioned called the 'Miracle' card.
>     Apparently it lets A2's use a PC mouse on their machine and will
>     only cost about $20.  Anyone got any info on this?

There was some brief discussion about the idea of doing this a while
ago, but I don't recall any specific product being mentioned.

You should be able to do an interface to a PC mouse with a Super
Serial Card, but it would require custom software to access the mouse.
You might be able to replace the ROM in a SSC and end up with a close
emulation of the standard mouse firmware, but you would need a little
more hardware to do a full emulation (e.g. generating VBL interrupts).
-- 
David Empson
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