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- From: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Mouse wander - acceptable?
- Message-ID: <11071@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 03:04:56 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.144927.4216@nntp.nta.no> <hjv.721933634@groucho.phil.ruu.nl>
- Sender: news@cs.uq.oz.au
- Reply-To: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au
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- In <hjv.721933634@groucho.phil.ruu.nl> hjv@phil.ruu.nl (Hendrik Jan Veenstra) writes:
-
- >otv@hal.nta.no (Oddvar Tveito FTO) writes:
-
- >>My ATARI dealer sold me a mouse for my STe 1040 which frequently starts
- >>to wander around the screen by itself - without me touching the mouse.
- >>The problem is of course that in some programs, if it pulls down a menu,
- >>the program will not respond to keyboard inputs.
-
- >>My dealer tells me this is common to all non-atari mice, and is due to
- >>"very strong signals from the mouse".
-
- What a load of it.
-
- I have a non-atari mouse that also exhibits this behavious. It is a "xydexzc"
- (or something like that - white with orange symbol/name).
-
- It has a switch on the bottom to switch between Amiga and Atari mouse. And guess
- what - it exhibits similar behaviour on the Amiga, except that there it vibrates
- rather than wandering, but that's just the different way Amigas and Ataris
- use the 4 mouse input lines. (ie. on the Atari, the mouse is oscilating the
- "move now" strobe, while on the Amiga, it oscilates the "direction" strobe,
- effectively)
-
- It doesn't bother me... much.
-
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- Warwick
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