Cocolino

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

I own several Cocolino's.  They work fine with all of the mice I've thrown at them. Standard PS/2, USB (with adapter), and optical.

I guess the obvious question is, is that CD32 the only Amiga you own? Have you tried it ("it" meaning the Cocolino) with any other Amiga? That should verify pretty quickly whether the problem is with the CD32 or the Cocolino.

[mindprober]

Received my Rys MK II today. It works with two out of the three USB mice I tried so far. One that worked is a Logitech wireless.  

I have another unanticipated problem, though. Since the mice I am testing are more modern, they have higher DPI values and my mouse pointer is pretty jumpy now. I cannot find a good setting in the OS 3.9 input Prefs. It is either too fast or too slow.

What I need now is a decent wireless optical mouse in the 400 dpi range perhaps. Something tells me this may not be easy to find.

I don't suppose there is a better input preps program? Something with greater precision.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

You can use various commodities to speed it up, slow it down, etc. I don't recall the names of any specifically but I *think* Multi_CX has this function. Plus many more. Check Aminet.

[Iggy]

I own several Cocolino's. They work fine with all of the mice I've thrown at them. Standard PS/2, USB (with adapter), and optical.

I guess the obvious question is, is that CD32 the only Amiga you own? Have you tried it ("it" meaning the Cocolino) with any other Amiga? That should verify pretty quickly whether the problem is with the CD32 or the Cocolino.

I could try it on my A2000, but I didn't buy it for that system.
And the CD32 (with the SX-1) I have is definitely superior to the A2000 (except for expansion possibilities, and outside of a Vampire2, I don't have much interest in expanding my A2000).

Look, if anyone that thinks these work wants it, I've offered it for a little more than half the cost.
It does not work for me.

[mindprober]

Yes, I remember MultiCX. I was a big fan of it back in my WB 3.1 days. It took care of many things for one commodity. I abandoned it when I went to OS 3.9 though. I do not recall the details but it was conflicting with something or just caused the system to freeze. I believe I learned much later that something else was to blame. This discovery was made in emulation because my A3K was sold off by then.

I am using OS 3.9 again with an A1200 and was able to install the OS 3.x compatible MultiCX but I also remember now about shareware reminder nag window and the author being unreachable to do anything about it. It also is somewhat outdated with regard to OS 3.9 because it does not recognize the OS version correctly.

On the positive side, it does offer some more customization when it comes to mouse acceleration. I will have to play with it some more.

I did locate an MCX v2 key but it does not seem to eliminate the nag screen for the OS 3 version. I could also not be placing the key in the right location. Could not locate any instructions on this.

You can use various commodities to speed it up, slow it down, etc. I don't recall the names of any specifically but I *think* Multi_CX has this function. Plus many more. Check Aminet.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

I believe the Multi_CX "key" is a string of text that gets entered into a icon tooltype.  Something ridiculous like "KEY=IAMREGISTERED", but I may be remembering completely wrong.  Am buried up to my elbows in projects right now and literally can't turn around to turn on my Amiga, but google search for something like that.  Good luck!  

[mindprober]

Funny, I launched Snoopdos to see if it would help me with any reference to a keyfile and instead and I saw the Tooltype you mentioned below. The exact string is "I_AM_REGISTERED". Unfortunately, adding it did not make a difference. Hmmm.

So I took your advice and found out that it should be "I_AM_REGISTERED=42". Seems to be working now.  

I believe the Multi_CX "key" is a string of text that gets entered into a icon tooltype.  Something ridiculous like "KEY=IAMREGISTERED", but I may be remembering completely wrong.  Am buried up to my elbows in projects right now and literally can't turn around to turn on my Amiga, but google search for something like that.  Good luck!  

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

So I took your advice and found out that is should be "I_AM_REGISTERED=42". Seems to be working now.  

:banana::banana:

[Iggy]

After consideration, I asked AmigaKit to drop the RMA request on the cocolino.
When I decide to rebuild my A2000 (which I upgraded to ECS a few years ago) by having it recapped and replacing the battery (which I removed to prevent corrosion), I'll use it on that.

It would be cool to have an optical mouse on that system.