Comments on: [M]ouse: a PS/2 to c64 adapter

By: Wwhat

Wwhat — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:41:41 +0000

Lol, it’s not the FCC that I care about but rather the radio interference that gets into my stuff.
It just seems so incredible it was approved.
No ‘white space’ within 30 yard of an c64 I can tell you.

By: tehgringe

tehgringe — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:36:10 +0000

@McSteez & therian

The mouse may look a bit goofy with the cable pointing vertically but I work on a small desk with plenty of desk fodder around, and one of the most annoying things is the bend in the mouse cable when it pushed up against something.

I would like to have one of these mices :)

By: pookeye

pookeye — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:46:48 +0000

Actually, it really isn’t so much of an issue of who’s interested in the FCC as it is whether or not the FCC is interested in YOU.

@svofski said: don’t quite get the interest people have in the FCC.

By: svofski

svofski — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:02:53 +0000

I made a video that shows what exactly is happening on POTX/POTY lines of C64′s control port when a 1351 mouse moves:

By: cantido

cantido — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:18:01 +0000

>PS/2 is serial, but it is NOT standard RS-232.

RS232 != “Serial”. RS232 is a “type of serial communications protocol”. SATA is serial, doesn’t mean you can plug a “serial mouse” into it does it?
Even if PS/2 was RS232 compatible, RS232 only defines low level stuff like signalling levels, data representation, so two “RS232 mice” for different platforms could use totally different protocols on top of RS232, so you would still need some sort of translation.

>Graham Simpson

There have been PS/2 -> Amiga mouse adaptors for yonks. I think there have been schematics up on Aminet for the best part of a decade. Individual Computers have also produced all sorts of similar stuff over the years,..

By: svofski

svofski — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:03:19 +0000

@Wwhat: don’t quite get the interest people have in the FCC.

By: tnt23

tnt23 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:47:16 +0000

@Graham Simpson
Amigas don’t support paddles or joysticks with analog outputs AFAIK. Shouldn’t be hard to tweak the design for Amigas I guess.

Cool hack anyway.

By: Wwhat

Wwhat — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:00:01 +0000

Don’t quite get the interest people have in the c64, and if I had one working and in use what I’d mod first is the lousy shielding, how that thing ever got through the FCC I’ll never know.
Its shielding was a piece of thin cardboard with aluminum foil stuck to it, for those that don’t know. and if that wasn’t bad enough it just folded along the length over the top but left 3 sides open.

By: Graham Simpson

Graham Simpson — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:51:13 +0000

I should totally do this for my A1200, now that I have an oscilloscope! I could also hook in my Cyborg digital as a joystick…

By: jake

jake — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:54:51 +0000

This isn’t the sort of hack that really interests me, but the documentation and write up is so perfect, and the actual hack is so neat. Inspiring.

By: jim

jim — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:06:06 +0000

Am I the only person that would like to use a C64 as a PS/2 keyboard for a PC?

By: David Murray

David Murray — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:43:02 +0000

Actually, PS/2 is serial, but it is NOT standard RS-232. In any case, the C64 uses an analog mouse. I actually designed a mouse driver that will run a PS/2 mouse off of the user-port of a C64 DTV. Look here: http://galaxy22.dyndns.org/dtv/common/ps2mouse/index.html

By: therian

therian — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:59:30 +0000

really good hack, but what the hell wrong with this mouse ? it looks so ridiculous

By: Seth

Seth — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:00:47 +0000

“People who are not afraid of using a real Commodore 64 in 2009 tend not to experience shortage of real PS/2 mice.”

So true, so true.

By: doc

doc — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:16:44 +0000

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