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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: ricco32097 on October 09, 2006, 12:22:54 AM

Title: Amiga (500) mouse style on a PC?
Post by: ricco32097 on October 09, 2006, 12:22:54 AM
Is such a mouse available on the PC? Same style, but with high DPI resolution, USB and such.
http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/items/amigamouse1.jpg
Title: Re: Amiga (500) mouse style on a PC?
Post by: Amiduffer on October 09, 2006, 12:40:05 AM
God knows! A look through your generic computer store wouldn't turn up anything at all close to an OLD C= mouse. Ergonomics and all that. You would have to turn to a store thats got very old PC mice. If anyone else has seen one, I hope they can post it.
Title: Re: Amiga (500) mouse style on a PC?
Post by: ricco32097 on October 09, 2006, 02:03:05 AM
In my search I found the Commodore 1352 with a serial. But is is old, only 300 DPI. I have seen some funky mice in my search, and there must be someone that are making a mouse that looks somewhat similar. I just love that design.
Title: Re: Amiga (500) mouse style on a PC?
Post by: coldfish on October 09, 2006, 04:18:30 AM
You could always mod/hack the Amiga-mouse shell onto something newer, like a optical mouse or something.
Title: Re: Amiga (500) mouse style on a PC?
Post by: ricco32097 on October 09, 2006, 05:18:38 PM
My skills don't go that far. I was hoping for a ready to go product.

Anyone seen a new PC mouse designed like an Amiga 500 Mouse?
Title: Re: Amiga (500) mouse style on a PC?
Post by: hardlink on October 09, 2006, 07:05:15 PM
Alternatively, you could do the opposite of what many Amiga people do, and use a real A500 mouse with a bus-to-serial mouse adapter. Yes, there are/were such things, because in the dawn of the Clone era, when they were trying to catch up with the Amiga, there were both Amiga style and serial mice. Micro$oft backed the serial mouse; guess who won. However, to push their agenda, Micro$oft actually manufactured bus-to-serial mouse converters, and I have one.
Title: Re: Amiga (500) mouse style on a PC?
Post by: ricco32097 on October 12, 2006, 01:06:15 AM
Bummer