Re: a USB for the Apple II smoke test

[David Wilson <david@uow.edu.au>]

"Sean Fahey" <a2fan@hotmail.com> writes:
>card. Sure - someone could write a driver to use a SSC as a mouse controller
>but what's the point? I think existing 8 bit software would ignore it unless
>their mouse routines were intercepted by a driver for translation by a shim
>application or rewritten completely to use the SSC.

The driver would be in a 2716 EPROM and replace the existing SSC firmware.
It would have the same entry points as a standard Apple II mouse card and
thus work fine in 8 bit programs. The only tricky bit would be the 50/60Hz
IRQ ability of the Mouse card - not sure the SSC hardware would be able
to provide this functionality [unmodified].
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David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia