Re: Help: need documentation for cards (PAL encoder, Mockingboard)

[wbaguhn@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Will Baguhn)]

In article <4up01c$dre@darla.visi.com>, Nathan Mates <nathan@visi.com> wrote:
>In article <4uo3g1$4pk@crcnis3.unl.edu>,
>Greg Berigan <gberigan@cse.unl.edu> wrote:
>>Lastly, I also obtained an Apple Mouse model #A2M4015 with an external
>>game port connector (like a joystick, paddles, or koalapad).  It doesn't
>>seem to have any glide surfaces like found on modern mice.  
>
>   Define 'glide surfaces like found on modern mice' please. A mouse
>is something you move around with your hand-- my PC has a very nice
>modern mouse on it, and it has a ball in the bottom just like other
>real mice. Plenty of computers are still being sold with mechanical or
>optical mice; only certain notebooks have taken up the fad of
>touchpads. Just because there are a few touchpads (the correct term
>for them) nowadays that can act like mice doesn't mean that all mice
>must look and act like them.

"Glide Surfaces" are hard plastic areas of a different (slippery)
material that poke down from the rest of the bottom of the mouse
a bit, so that's what the mouse rests on (so there's not too much
pressure on the ball, and the bottom of the mouse doesn't wear
out).


>   Pretty much all Apple Mice (and especially those designed and sold
>with Apple IIs) are the mechanical type-- a roller ball on the bottom.
>If it's missing the ball, you'll have to find a replacement. The model
>with the 9-pin connector is for use on the Mac, Mac Plus, Apple //c,
>//c+, and //e with Apple Mouse controller card. 
>
>   Despite having the same number of pins, the GS joystick port is not
>designed for that mouse, and the mouse won't work as a joystick when
>connected to it. Only the //c and //c+ pulled off the trick of being
>able to use joysticks and mouse thru the same port.
>
>Nathan Mates

Flip over your IIgs mouse.  On mine, there's a bar of different
material at the top, going across the mouse; a similar patch
on the ball-retaining ring.  Those are the glide surfaces.
(I have one of the cheap-o black-ball versions)
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