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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: melott on June 29, 2005, 11:13:36 PM

Title: Serial Mouse again
Post by: melott on June 29, 2005, 11:13:36 PM

I have an old PC serial mouse with the sub D 9 pin
connector and I have a 9 to 23 pin serial port adaptor.
I D/L'ed a driver from Aminet that was supposed to work.
It didn't work.
The question is ... what did I mis ?
If I read the docs correctly, it should have worked.
Anyone have a guess, or know of a driver that works ?

Title: Re: Serial Mouse again
Post by: Thomas on June 30, 2005, 07:03:16 AM

I hope you have a 9->25 pin adapter because the 23 pin connector is for the monitor, not the serial port.

There are a lot of serial mouse drivers on Aminet. Which one did you use ?

http://de.aminet.net/aminetbin/find?hard+ser+mouse

I think NewMouse is the most recent one.

Bye,
Thomas

Title: Re: Serial Mouse again
Post by: orange on June 30, 2005, 08:33:28 AM

you are not trying it in games, are you? (just to be sure)

Title: Re: Serial Mouse again
Post by: melott on June 30, 2005, 04:24:17 PM

@Thomas
Yes .. sorry  :-D  its a 9 to 25 pin adaptor.

@Orange
No .. not for games, just a working mouse.

I tried the drivers that don't require hacking
the mouse... there are 2 drivers that are supposed
to work.

Title: Re: Serial Mouse again
Post by: Iggy_Drougge on July 02, 2005, 12:15:29 AM

Have you read the documentation? The drivers may need configuration, since there are several incompatible mouse protocols on the PC.
Have you verified that the mouse works with a PC? Windows 95 had plug'n'play for serial mice (but not PS/2 ones), and that should be the case with the newer revisions as well.

Furthermore, try some graphic tablet drivers, since they often have support for serial mice as well.

Title: Re: Serial Mouse again
Post by: lorddef on July 02, 2005, 02:02:54 AM

I have an elbox mroocheck serial->amiga mouse port adapter here if anyone wants it. I don't want much for it, its useless to me.