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NewMouse 1.1
The Ultimate Serial Mouse Driver
Copyright (c) 1998-99 by Alessandro Zummo
All Rights Reserved
Commercial use is strictly forbidden
CardWare
Introduction
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Even if there are many mouse drivers on aminet, NewMouse is the
only one with all these features:
- Works with the most common mice
- Wheel support
- Allows Drag'n'Drop with MUI
- Works with IBrowse
- It's compliant to MouseWheel for wheel operations
- It's fast, some sections are written in asssembly
- It's able to work on different devices than serial.device
- It's OS friendly and compliant to RKM guidelines
- Hot (un)plug of the mouse is supported.. i.e. you can
unplug and plug the mouse while NewMouse is running
(however you may damage your Amiga by doing this)
Copyright
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This software is subject to the "Standard Amiga FD-Software Copyright Note"
It is Cardware as defined in paragraph 4c.
If you like it and use it regularly please send a postcard to the author.
For more information please read "AFD-COPYRIGHT" (Version 1 or higher).
Usage
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NewMouse DEVICE,UNIT/N,7BIT/S,P=PROTOCOL/K,PO=PROTOCOLOPTIONS/K
These are the defaults:
DEVICE = serial.device
UNIT = 0
PROTOCOL = LOGITECH
The PROTOCOLOPTSION field is not actually parsed by the driver code.
Sorry, but i've actually no time and this release has already
been delayed too much. Also the GetPNP utility is still missing,
i the next release it will help you to know which
protocol is compatible with your mouse.
The following protocols are actually available:
LOGITECH
- Mice
Logitech PilotMouse+
Logitech FirstMouse+
Logitech MouseMan+
Microsoft Intellimouse
A4Tech WWW-1 and WWW-5
surely others
- Features
Wheel
Third button
Red button
- Options
NOWHEEL/S
OLDLOGITECH
- Mice
Logitech M-Mxx series (NOT M-Sxx, they're PS2 mice)
Other manufacturers M-Mxx mice (they're Logitech inside)
- Features
Wheel
Third button
- Options
NOWHEEL/S
LOGITECHFX
- Mice
Logitech Trackball Marble FX
- Features
Wheel mode is enabled whit the red button pressed
Third button
- Options
NOWHEEL/S
MICROSOFT
- Mice
Not tested, it has been written down from the specs.
- Features
Third button
- Options
none
MOUSESYSTEM
- Mice
Not tested, it has been written down from the specs.
- Features
Third button
- Options
none
If your mouse is not listed here
but works succesfully with NewMouse, please
write me an email.
If your mouse doesn't work with NewMouse but you're sure it's
a serial mouse, write me an email. I'll try to make it working.
Who is currently supporting the MouseWheel standard?
----------------------------------------------------
NList.mcc, from Gilles Masson.
MuiWheel, a way to use the wheel with MUI (Aminet)
IntuiWheel, a patch for commodities.library/ParseIX (n/a, ask me).
Future
------
If requested, i'll be happy to implement other
protocols, even for a non wheeled mouse, but
i need to have some feedback for this.
The support for horizontal wheels and
4-button mice will be surely adedd in the next
release.
Developer infos
---------------
A new standard is defined.
Check the include newmouse.h in the archive.
It will be supported by the next MUI release.
History
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1.0 (10.07.1998) - First public release
1.1 (16.02.1999) + Hot plug handling
+ Little speedup
- Fixed a little bug
- Many protocols added
Greetings
---------
Dave Harris The author of MouseWheel.
He had the original idea
about the wheel.
Gilles Masson For his tests and for the support
in his NList MUI class.
Ralph Torchia For his beta-testing and for his
precious suggestions.
Torsten Blume For his beautiful postcard, the only
one i've received.. :-(
Sven Thoennissen Beta testers and happy users
Dean Husby (in no particular order)
Carol Harmond
Gregor Rébel
Stefan Schindler
Ralf Heinert
Audun Evensen
Alex Pagnoni
Thomas Igracki
Oliver Kreuzenbeck
Stefan Stuntz
Philippe Devilard
... sorry if i missed someone.
Author
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Email:
azummo@ita.flashnet.it
Homepage:
http://freepage.logicom.it/azummo/
Snail mail:
Via S. F. d'Assisi, 27
10121 Turin
Italy