Mousebroken is a control panel which will give you greater control over your mouse (or less control, depending on how you look at it). To install, first drag the Mousebroken control panel onto your system folder. (Under System 7, allow it to be moved to the “Control Panels” folder.) Second, drag the “Mouse Modules” folder onto your system folder. That’s it! Mousebroken is ready to use; you don’t even need to restart.
When you open up the Mousebroken control panel, you can choose which mouse module you would like to install by clicking on the arrows. The available mouse modules are the ones in the “Mouse Modules” folder in your system folder. To install the mouse module, simply close the Mousebroken control panel. The mouse module will stay active as long as Mousebroken is closed. (The mouse module will be installed automatically when you restart, too.) If none of the choices for mouse modules appeal to you, click “Off” and Mousebroken will leave your mouse alone forever (or until you click “On,” whichever is sooner).
Keep in mind that you don’t have to keep all the mouse modules. If any of them bore you or annoy you, or both, simply throw those modules out. As new modules are written, you can simply copy the ones you like into the “Mouse Modules” folder.
VERSION HISTORY:
1.0.1 (December 6, 1993) -=- fixed bug that caused the error dialog box to be displayed incorrectly on black & white Macs.
1.0 (December 3, 1993) -=- initial release.
NOTE TO PROGRAMMERS:
This mouse module system was designed to be as flexible as possible. I encourage fellow programmers to take a whack at designing your own mouse modules. It’s easy and it’s fun, and you get to muck about with undocumented low-memory globals. All the mouse modules included in this archive are public domain, so you can look at my efforts as a starting point. (Some of them are even commented!) Source for Mousebroken itself is also available; see the separate file “GNU General Public License” for licensing terms.
Mousebroken is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave., Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
CONTACTING THE AUTHOR:
All Macintosh users should feel free to contact me for any of the following reasons: reporting bugs or suggestions about Mousebroken or any other program I’ve written; discussing the possibility of collaborating on future programming projects; discussing the virus I wrote and released (MBDF-A); discussing ways to keep potential virus-writers from becoming actual virus-writers; discussing techniques for really good backrubs.
My e-mail address is f8dy@netaxs.com. To send me e-mail anonymously, mail to an48382@anon.penet.fi. (Due to the double-blind system, you will be allocated an anonymous I.D. which will keep your identity hidden.) To send me encrypted mail, e-mail me requesting my PGP 2.2 public key. If you do not have e-mail access, my home address is 1130 Radnor Hill Road, Wayne PA, 19087-2203, USA. Obviously, it will take me much longer to reply to snail-mail; use it as a last resort.
