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Re: Amiga 4000D repair of mouse/joy ports
« on: August 04, 2004, 12:57:28 PM »
Hello Jacob :-)

Unfortunally for you the 10 pins header near the mouse ports is a feature connector with various signals fed to Lisa :-( as you can see below :

"Mystery" Header (courtesy of Dave Haynie)

 "There is a 12 pin header (DIL, J975) near the mouse ports. This feeds the 'extra' shift register in Lisa. Unlike OCS/ECS systems, which simply multiplex the four quadrature signals from each mouse port with one another, the AA systems serialize all eight bits of mouse data. While they were at it, the AA designers added a second 8-bits to the mouse port registers. These don't hook into mouse logic or anything, but they can be read by the CPU."

So if you made a shortcut to these pins, it can be necessary to send the motheboard to a repair service like www.amiga.fr per example. (BTW as all the chips are surface mounted it will be obligatory).
Amigalement,
Jean-François Bachelet, Amiga nuts since 1985.
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Re: Amiga 4000D repair of mouse/joy ports
« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2004, 12:59:03 PM »
The Amiga 4000D doesn't use the same CIA chips.

Not entirelly true red ;-) same chips, different package :-)
Amigalement,
Jean-François Bachelet, Amiga nuts since 1985.
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