Stuart Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 I've been playing around with an old PC serial mouse and have it connected to my TM990 system, with a simple little sketch program on the TMS9918 VDP using a sprite for the mouse pointer. When I get my hands on a nanoPEB I'll try porting it across the TI-99. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+InsaneMultitasker Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 You sure that wasn't created on a lite brite? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willsy Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 How do serial mouse work? Is there a protocol I can read anywhere? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samishal Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 Thats really cool Stuart!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocky007 Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 i suppose it's the microsoft protocol : ? http://www.kryslix.com/nsfaq/Q.12.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Posted June 26, 2012 Author Share Posted June 26, 2012 i suppose it's the microsoft protocol : ? It certainly is. I had to wire up an adaptor for the serial port as I think the TM990 is wired up as 'terminal' that was intended to connect to a mainframe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 Nice It would be so neat to have a full graphical DOS for the TI... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 Nice It would be so neat to have a full graphical DOS for the TI... I reiterate my desire: GEOS for the TI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 If I recall correctly, the Mechatronics mouse came with a very rudimentary graphical DOS program, unfortunately too limited to be of much use... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Posted September 23, 2012 Author Share Posted September 23, 2012 (edited) I've got a mouse-driven menu and sketch application running on the 4A now. The PC serial mouse connects directly to the serial port on the nanoPEB. Video link here. There's a code listing here: http://www.avjd51.ds...ng_serial_mouse. Stuart. Edited September 23, 2012 by Stuart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S1500 Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 If I recall correctly, the Mechatronics mouse came with a very rudimentary graphical DOS program, unfortunately too limited to be of much use... I remember many moons ago(I didn't have a mouse) where in XB it was like a super-crude imitation of Windows 3.1. It ran other programs(which was all too easy) and had this graphical fronend. But way too slow & constrained to be of any use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willsy Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Video link still not working. Just post the url of the video directly into your post (dont use any of the media buttons or link buttons). The forum software will do the rest. Are you reading the serial port direct? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 I used to have a TI disk with software on it for reading a serial mouse... Genius, I think it was? I don't have it anymore. But it did work directly to the RS232 card. There's a lot of documentation online these days, so yeah, do a web search and wire it up! (If you can still find a serial mouse, though...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moulinaie Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 I've got a mouse-driven menu and sketch application running on the 4A now. The PC serial mouse connects directly to the serial port on the nanoPEB. Video link here. There's a code listing here: http://www.avjd51.ds...ng_serial_mouse. Stuart. That's really great! Thanks for sharing the source code, really inspiring. Guillaume. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RXB Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 You know the TIM card was supposed to have a mouse interface but he could not get the software to run in the space he had. A 512K Video card would have the space to do this.Did the 9958 include a mouse pointer built in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Cool! Now how about a graphical Funnelweb? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 I didn't notice you had shared the code, Stuart, very nice! Do you mind if others borrow your code for other projects? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Posted September 25, 2012 Author Share Posted September 25, 2012 I didn't notice you had shared the code, Stuart, very nice! Do you mind if others borrow your code for other projects? Borrow away, as indeed I borrowed bits from other sources ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willsy Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 Love it. And nicely written (and commented) code. Very easy to follow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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