Re: Ok, anyone started Contiki 4 AII yet?

[obsbedia2@aol.com (Obsbedia2)]

<< I wouldn't think that a Mockingbird would be a widely used card in an Apple
][ nor would a mouse board. The base solution should be as universal as
possible. I would guess a clock card would be more likely to be present,
although my no means universal. >>

  Actually, the mouse gets my vote without question.  

  As an Apple //e User, I have had very little use for the clock card (AW5.1's
screensaver and SEIKO's UC-2001 wristwatch's software--which hit Y2K and locked
up.  Although it's nice, knowing the exact time a file was created hasn't
really helped in the past.), but I've never had an Apple IIe without a mouse
since I installed the first one.  Why?  So many programs use/demand a mouse as
the only, or only decent, control device (Publish It!, Tutor-Tech, AppleWorks,
GEOS, DazzleDraw, MouseDesk, SuperSelector, DeskTop, Flobynoids, SoftDisk
series, PixPuzzler II, Sargon III, ...just to name a few of the biggies!).

  Mouse cards, sometimes with mice attached, run from one to six dollars plus
shipping on eBay, so for the few A2's that are without them, there is a good
source and more plentiful than clock cards or Mockingboards.  Mice would allow
access to more excellent A2 programs than Mockingboards or clock cards
could--the best reason to give up a slot!  

  But perhaps most importantly, basing the timer interrupts on the mouse card
would give good reason for including mouse control in Contiki itself!  Now that
would make some 32bit users' jaws drop!

][ Infinitum!
  JaY Edwards