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Jetzt geht die Post ab ! Why use a boring one-button-mouse on the ADB port, if you can connect a super three-button-mouse to one of the serial ports...
The principal item is the control panel "Serial Mouse Driver 1.01" by Charles Rentmeesters (© 1993). It is CD-ware (if you like and use it, you send him a CD - a sort of shareware).
You will find the file on the Internet as
serial-mouse-driver-101.hqx.
Seriously, you don't connect a mouse this way, but you can connect a
stylish trackball or a joystick. You can even solder the cable
yourself :
Fig. : The mouse adapter cable, with the
male RS-422 plug
and the female RS-232, seen from the soldering side.
not
everything works...
from Helmut_Fischer@whv.maus.de
PC-(analog)-joysticks are simple cross-potentiometers, like in a remote control, nothing more in there. The PC-game-port reads the resistor values and relays them to the computer. No RS-424 will be able to handle this. Serial ports of the Macs will not know what to do with other (digital) joysticks either, since they fuction by simply closing micro-switches. A PC-mouse however generates RS-232-conform signals derived from the mechanically or optically measured movements. These signals can be read by the Mac, but I never heard of RS-232-joysticks for the PC. Pity !
The
original text in English
If you want to take a look at the original text.
Commercial
Off course, there also exists commercial software that does almost the same. It is called MacEnjoy, and costs approximately 100 DEM. It's an adapter for a PC-joystick, that is connected to the ADB-port (so it doesn't block a serial port). The adapter has a chip in it. It uses a control panel, so it also needs software.