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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: trekiej on September 24, 2017, 02:17:47 AM
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In 1991 I met a fellow Amiga User that had an Optical Mouse that needed a grid mouse pad to work.
Has anyone used one of these?
Where they any good?
It looks like they disappeared quickly.
I could be wrong.
:-)
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In 1991 I met a fellow Amiga User that had an Optical Mouse that needed a grid mouse pad to work.
Has anyone used one of these?
Where they any good?
It looks like they disappeared quickly.
I could be wrong.
:-)
I had one of these. It was bad. While the motion was precise it only worked on that mousepad and any bit of dust or gunk on the sensor or the pad caused it to jump around or not move at all. The buttons were nice and clicky though.
Today I would just get a PS-2 to Amiga adapter though most of them aren't very good either.
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I still have one of those, with pad. I've scanned the pad if someone needs it.
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A few manufacturers made these. I had one from Golden Image and I remember seeing one advertised from someone else.
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Thanks.
It is sad to hear that the PS2 adapters are not good.
I think that there are usb adapters that do the same. Speculation on my part.
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In 1991 I met a fellow Amiga User that had an Optical Mouse that needed a grid mouse pad to work.
Has anyone used one of these?
Yes, I had one, from AlphaData if I recall correctly.
Where they any good?
I was quite satisfied with mine. I alwas had trouble with mechanical mice, collecting dust, then becoming unreliable. Also, the quality of the CBM mice was quite poor - the cheap mouse buttons broke down quite quickly. Microswitches came only with later edditions. It was very anyoning. The optical mouse did not have this problem. Just the left mouse button failed after a year or so when I had to replace it.
It looks like they disappeared quickly.
I could be wrong.
:-)
Well, soon after optical mice based on a sensor and motion estimation entered the market, which put the history of mechanical and the grid/pad based optical mice to an end.
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I used these on the Sun Workstations in my computer science lab. They were pretty good, as you’d expect from Sun, so maybe they varied from manufacturer to manufacturer.
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A few manufacturers made these. I had one from Golden Image and I remember seeing one advertised from someone else.
I'd say a few relabeled them.....
Also a lot of the mice that were available back than also existed as a serial version (just a different PCB).