Using a PC mouse without a h/w adaptor?

[Noster]

Hi,

I've used an "old" serial Microsoft mouse, opened it, taken a cable from an old Amiga mouse and soldered the end of the cable at the right places in the Microsoft mouse -- bypassing the hardware that generates the serial protocol -- cut some traces and now I have a perfect Amiga (-only) mouse.
It's quite cool to connect a Microsoft mouse directly -- without any adapter -- to an Amiga :-D

It's easy to be done, just have a look into an opened Amiga mouse and an opened Microsoft mouse (two button) and if you have some electronic experience you could easily make the mod.

Noster

[Noster]

Hi

> can it be done with any M$ serial mouse?

I think you can do it with any two or three button serial mouse. Special buttons like a wheel will not work of cause.
I have also reworked a Logitech PS/2 mouse.

If you desolder the needless parts and rearrange them you could build an interface to connect an Amiga mouse to a PC's mouse port, very cool for running UAE with an original Amiga mouse :-D

> But it'd be very hard to find them now, I guess.

They are not hard to find. At nearly every garage sale you could get them for 1,- EUR.

Noster