Hi everyone, just noticed a thread over there at vcfed.org -> http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?69372-Mouse-for-XT
This makes mew wonder, is a bus mouse less demanding than a serial mouse ?
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the thing is that both bus mouse and ps/2 mouse uses a chip that's constantly polling the bus to see changes in the mouse movements. a serial mouse depends on the processor to do so, effectively being a little bit more demanding
DT: R7-5800X3D/R5-3600/R3-1200/P-G5400/FX-6100/i3-3225/P-8400/D-900/K6-2_550
LT: C-N2840/A64-TK57/N2600/N455/N270/C-ULV353/PM-1.7/P4-2.6/P133
TC: Esther-1000/Esther-400/Vortex86-366
Others: Drean C64c/Czerweny Spectrum 48k/Talent MSX DPC200/M512K/MP475
Oh. thanks for the feedback. Bus mice were a bit before my time, so I liked to know. 😊
By the way, maybe you know this, too - Is the bus mouse controller polling only or also using interrupts ?
If so, is it also as "interrupting" as much as the 8250/16450 FiFOs do or rather comparable to the less frequently interrupting 16550 ?
Why I ask..: I believe there are Atari ST to Serial Mouse adapters out there (uC based)..
So would like to know if it would make sense to rebuild a bus mouse controller card, but with a built-in Atari/Bus mouse converter.
Once workingn, on the mouse side, the same serial-PS/2 hybrid mice could be used as with the other RS232-to-PS/2 projects.
"Time, it seems, doesn't flow. For some it's fast, for some it's slow.
In what to one race is no time at all, another race can rise and fall..." - The Minstrel
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these things are a bit outside my knowledge, maybe someone will answer the question better
DT: R7-5800X3D/R5-3600/R3-1200/P-G5400/FX-6100/i3-3225/P-8400/D-900/K6-2_550
LT: C-N2840/A64-TK57/N2600/N455/N270/C-ULV353/PM-1.7/P4-2.6/P133
TC: Esther-1000/Esther-400/Vortex86-366
Others: Drean C64c/Czerweny Spectrum 48k/Talent MSX DPC200/M512K/MP475
That's okay, don't worry. Thanks, for the reply, also. I'm just curious, but don't know either.
"Time, it seems, doesn't flow. For some it's fast, for some it's slow.
In what to one race is no time at all, another race can rise and fall..." - The Minstrel
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