Re: a USB for the Apple II smoke test

[salfter@salfter.diespammersdie.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <gYcGe.2049$oY.1244@newssvr25.news.prodigy.net>,
Sean Fahey <a2fan@hotmail.com> wrote:
>I've never plugged an Apple Mouse Card into a GS... for obvious reasons,
>never had the need to. So I can't state what GS/OS would do. I hypothesize
>it would do nothing, except attempt to read the ADB mouse. A mouse card in a
>GS would only become useful when booting 8 bit (assuming ProDOS) apps that
>support mice. ProDOS 16 apps would use ADB mice.

The IIGS firmware provides a compatibility layer to allow 8-bit apps to use
the ADB mouse.  8-bit apps see a mouse card in slot 4 and talk to it the
same way they would do with a mouse card in a IIe.

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