Posted By
Spektro
on 2023-10-26
20:13:25
 |  Re: PS/2 mouse on Plus/4
Yes, Plus/4 sees the mouse as a joystick when you activate the PS/2 mouse to 1351 mouse adapter's joystick mode by holding down the right mouse button when the Plus/4 starts.
To test the mouse, I wrote a short Basic program that reads the joystick and moves a character on the screen when you move the mouse. It worked well but you can't detect the speed of the mouse movement. Because of that the character lags behind when you move the mouse fast.
I noticed that a wireless Logitech mouse would also work, if you could activate the joystick mode in time. The problem is that the Logitech's USB receiver doesn't wake up fast enough to send the right mouse button down signal to the PS/2 mouse to 1351 mouse adapter and the adapter remains in the mouse mode.
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