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First post, by Dark_Lord

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Hi everybody,

after some research I noticed that not only the Microsoft InPort Mouse, but also various other mice are called bus mice. Also with the Amiga and Atari mice.

I briefly considered whether I should somehow include this in RetroARDUInput, but I think it makes more sense to do this externally. In the end, it's just a passive adapter that takes care of various jacks and pinouts of the same and quickly repins the mouse (or mouse emulator like Rys MkII, MouSTer or RetroARDUInput).

The RetroARDUInput has the three-headed monkey from Monkey Island as its mascot, the BusMousOMatic is about mice that didn't succeed in taking over the world, hence the mascots Pinky and Brain.

And this is what it looks like

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And here you can download the KiCAD project and the Gerber files
https://github.com/RetroFuturisticEngineer/BusMousOMatic

And between these mice the thing can translate by pure re-pinning:

CN1: Mouse input for Commodore or Atari (D9M on the board, D9F on the mouse)

CN2: Mouse output (Can also be used as input with a gender changer) D9M:
- Position Amiga: Commodore Amiga series, PC1, PC10-III, PC20-III, Colt
- Position Atari: Atari ST series, Atari PC with Atari Bus Mouse Port
- Position Amstrad: Amstrad/Schneider PC1512, PC1640, Sinclair PC-200

CN3: Mouse output (Can also be used as input with a gender changer) D9F:
- Position Lisa: Apple Lisa
- Position PC98: NEC PC-98

CN4: Mouse output (Can also be used as input) Mini-DIN 9:
- Position InPort: Microsoft InPort
- Position Archimedes: Acorn Archimedes
- Headstart position: Headstart Computers (e.g. Headstart Explorer)

CN5: Mouse output (Can also be used as input) Mini-DIN 8:
- NeXT position: NeXT Cube (Non-ADB version)