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- From: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Mouse wander - acceptable?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.092122.7950@cs.hw.ac.uk>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 09:21:22 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.144927.4216@nntp.nta.no> <1992Nov17.095515.13381@gdr.bath.ac.uk>
- Sender: news@cs.hw.ac.uk (News Administrator)
- Organization: Dept of Computing & Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland
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- In article <1992Nov17.095515.13381@gdr.bath.ac.uk> mapmh@gdr.bath.ac.uk (M Hagger) writes:
- >I have a similiar problem with my mouse and it's an official atari one,
- >what usually happens is that the cursor will be quite happily sitting
- >in the centre of the screen and then will suddenly decide that the top
- >of the screen is more interesting and move up there. It's very
- >odd and I really can't see any reason for it.
- >
- >Anyone out there know why this happens? I can't see why strong signals
- >would cause a problem really. Is is a fault with the keyboard chip?
-
- I wouldn't expect this behaviour in modern ST machines but old ST's had
- version 1.0 keyboard chips which do suffer from mouse drift.
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