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Re: mouse & Keyboard adptors
« on: March 05, 2003, 04:15:51 PM »
There's a problem of logic here.  The Amiga's mouse actually had little logic in there, the Amiga itself decoded the signals into position-placement.  PC mice send byte-signals down a serial line, and the CPU has to then first arrange them back into usable signals *then* decode the result.  Means that a PC's mouse doesn't work like an Amiga's mouse.  You need to make a logic chip to do the work that the CPU used to do in the PC and then translate that to the Amiga.
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