Re: Silly question...

[Roger Johnstone <news2006@roger.geek.nz>]

In <1150911104.920376.149380@y41g2000cwy.googlegroups.com> BLuRry wrote:
>
> I also have a //c with a mouse (as well as a mouse interface card in 
> my //e) so once I am less distracted by apple game server stuff I will
> probably work on a small set of routines around supporting our little
> one-button friend, mostly in respect to replacing joystick routines.
> (wouldn't it be awesome to have mouse support in stellar-7?  How about
> marble madness?  Millipede/Centipede/Midnight Crawler?  Or any number
> of paddle-based games and breakout variants?)  The file-based games 
> are small enough to hack in this regard, I think, so it's only a 
> matter of time...

Someone at Apple was way ahead of you. From the BASIC command prompt 
type:

 PR#4 <return>
 control-A <return>
 PR#0 <return>

This turns on the mouse and initialises it. Since you can't have a mouse 
and joystick connected to the Apple IIc at the same time, the IIc will 
now use the mouse as a joystick. Very quick and easy, but unfortunately 
this only works with the IIc, and only works with programs which use the 
firmware paddle routines, which a lot of games don't use.

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* Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand -> http://roger.geek.nz
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