Questions tagged [mouse]
For questions about the use of a mouse on retrocomputers. For questions about touchpads use the "touchpad" tag instead.
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Amiga 500 left mouse button not working
I've recently bought a Amiga 500 (A6 board). This Amiga works perfectly and starts as it should, except for the fact that when I hover on a icon and click my left mouse button to open it, it doesn't ...
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How did an old mouse detect if it was connected to PS/2 or USB port?
Prompted by this earlier question about USB-to-PS2 adapters, in which the answer is that the mouse figures out what it is connected to, the question arises: how do it know?
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How did early green PS/2 to USB mouse adapters work?
I remember when USB mouses came out those green PS/2 to USB adapters were around. (I cannot remember to have seen a purple keyboard adapter doing the same. But that doesn't mean anything.)
I always ...
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Toshiba Libretto 100CT PS/2 keyboard and mouse dual use
I have a Toshiba Libretto 100CT that I'd like to use in docked configuration with an external monitor, speakers, keyboard and mouse
Through the use of the official dock I'm able to use a VGA port for ...
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How did early computers handle mice?
Early computer mice worked by sending a series of pulses; the more rapid the movement, the higher the frequency. How was this handled at the computer end?
At one level, it sounds easy: just run a loop,...
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Commodore 1352 mouse converter
My Commodore PC30-III can only handle a Commodore 1352 mouse, but it is practically impossible to buy one. I own a couple of Amiga and serial PC mice that if I plug in, the buttons seem to work, but ...
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Commodore Mouse not recognized by a Commodore PC30-III 286 machine
I have Commodore PC 30-III 286 machine with a serial port at the back labelled "mouse". If I plug my Commodore mouse 1900 serial mouse then execute mouse.com at the DOS prompt then I get the ...
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Did the original MS-DOS Quake not have a menu item for freelook, and if so, why?
I know that Quake (the 1996 MS-DOS game) is a "full" 3D engine, and always had some kind of mouse support.
However, even the original Wolfenstein 3D from 1992 also had mouse support from the ...
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Was there a specific benefit to inverted (XOR) mouse cursors other than aesthetics?
As far as I can remember the inverted (aka "XOR") style of mouse cursor has been around as long as there have been mice. I mean something like this:
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where the cursor shape is ...
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Did the original BBC Micro computer come with a mouse?
I know some companies like Advanced Memory Systems designed mice for the BBC Micro like the AMX mouse so I was wondering if the original BBC micro came with its own mouse. I'm trying to compile a list ...
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How can I detect mouse wheel movement in QuickBasic?
I am using the following code to trap left/right/middle mouse button and mouse row/column in Microsoft QuickBasic 4.5 and I need a way to detect the mouse wheel. I have looked at Ralf Brown's ...
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Use a USB mouse for DOS games
I have a Thinkpad T41 on which I installed Windows 98 SE.
I installed an old DOS game, and was wondering if I could get a USB mouse to work with it ? (the PC doesn't have a PS/2 port)
At the moment, ...
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How I can install Windows 98SE in Hyper-V, but can't run it after
Create the Gen 1 machine with less than 512MiB Ram (above requires you to put MaxFileCache=524288 and MaxPhysPage=40000 in the system.ini later).
Add either a virtual or physical IDE drive (physical ...
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How did the BBC sideways ROM software for the AMX mouse process the user port input data to determine x and y movement?
This mouse plugged into the user port on the underside of the BBC micro models. The mouse came with software in the form of a sideways ROM which provided APIs, CLI commands for own programs as well as ...
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Did the computer mouse always output relative x/y and not absolute?
I am experimenting with a graphics pen and tablet and it got me thinking about the difference between it and my mouse. One huge difference is that the tablet's working area covers the whole screen, ...
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Will any serial mouse connect to Classic Macs?
The Macintosh 128k, 512k, and Plus use a DE-09 Serial port for the mouse. Is there some proprietary data-transfer method? Or is any DE-09 Serial mouse compatible?
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How do I use my adapted PS/2 keyboard & mouse on a Windows 10 computer?
I want to use my old PS/2 mouse & keyboard with my Dell Latitude, which has no PS/2 ports.
I am fully aware that the easiest way to do this would to use an active PS/2 to USB converter, like this ...
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Why did moving the mouse cursor cause Windows 95 to run more quickly?
I was playing Hypnospace Outlaw, a game about a retro-themed OS. This OS has a peculiar behavior that when loading a webpage, wiggling the mouse cursor will load the page faster.
That reminded me of ...
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A way to connect Microsoft Green-Eyed mouse to modern computer?
Is there a way to connect the 1983 Microsoft "Green-eyed" mouse to a modern PC or preferably Mac (running Windows on virtual machine)?
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Logitech drivers from Windows 95 Installer on the actual disk
I'm attempting something that might seem crazy but I got stuck at the end. I am installing Windows 95, on a flash drive, using a PC with modern hardware (Not a virtual machine!). I got around the ...
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Macintosh Performa 200 Mouse and Keyboard Issue
I have a Macintosh Performa 200 and I’m trying to get it working again. It powers on normally and then it brings up the normal Mac OS screen but the mouse and keyboard don't work. Yesterday they were ...
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Which pointing devices were used by early laptop computers?
I've started reading this article on the history of the ThinkPad. In it, the TrackPoint (pointing stick/"nipple" mouse) is heralded as an important innovation in the design of portable computers at ...
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Can the ADB keyboard and mouse be converted to the 128K Macintosh?
As you probably know, the original Macintosh 128K, 512K (Fat Mac) and the Macintosh Plus (IIRC) have a different keyboard and mouse connection than the later ADB versions such as the Macintosh SE ...
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Xerox Parc and the three-button mouse
The original GUI invented at Xerox Parc, used a three-button mouse.
What did each of the three buttons do?
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Identify an early 90s optical mouse
Apologies if this is not the right place to ask this.
When I was in high school in the early 90s (maybe 1992 or so), they took us on a field trip to what I think was a government R&D center of ...
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Replacing Amiga 9 pin D-Sub mouse cable
I have an original Amiga "tank" mouse, the PCBs are good, but the cable is clearly faulty as the Y axis and left mouse click doesn't work when it is tilted to the right.
I need to replace the cable ...
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Cleaning Atari ST mouse and experiences with the USB/PS2 adapter
I am user a Atari ST computer and my original mouse has a very slow movements and little range for each movement, for this reason it is needed to move multiple times the mouse, I have tried to clean ...
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How can I adapt a modern mouse for use with Amiga?
Death of the Amiga platform predated introduction of optical mice of reasonable quality by a couple years. The Amiga mouse was a box of problems, with non-ergonomic shape, crud-accumulating rollers ...
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How to clean an old computer ball-mouse
I have an old mouse from a old HP computer which I am using with one of those PS2-to-USB converter cables.
The problem is that the mouse has changed its color a bit over the years and is now a bit ...
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Rubber restoration or replacement?
I recently found an old Satellite 4015cds laptop that I wanted to play around with. I have cleaned all the plastic and it looks really good except for two places. The rubber touchpads and the rubber ...
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