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Toby, I have tried M-ark and S-pace, but getting Xmit error message. Mouse clicks works same as without M or S. Mouse moves with M-ark putting out just a few bytes then Xmit error. I believe the mouse is in MS mode by default, as I manage to decode mouse clicks, but so far not mouse moves. xxLxxxxx ...

Hi, I have updated the polling code above and tried to catch the mouse output to a file. The mouse should send 7 bits 1 stop bit with no parity, as tested on Linux. Please see output below. Early in the output captured mouse moves upwards, sideways, nearer at the bottom ar\e just button clicks. What...

Hi All, Thank you for suggestions, also I am sorry about extra tabs, I copied the code from Linux terminal, is the way I can get files accross to the web. So there also appears LF terminating each line. Also my terminal is set to UTF8 encoding. I need to learn how to upload code here as Latin-1 enco...

Hi, Having read all Sinclair manuals and Jan Jones book on S*BASIC, I coded this my 1st program, it is nothing special, just wanted to entertain myself with the new knowledge. I was suprised that I needed CURSOR command to put numbers evenly in the grid, as I could not have managed that with AT comm...

Hi, Well I have probably started the hard way as "My Mouse" (funny that is the Genius model name) is sort of special. So far I can poll what mouse sends to the SER1 port, I have coded this little program, 'q' quits the poll. 180 BAUD 1200 190 OPEN #5, ser1ir 220 REPeat poll 230 LET b = COD...

Afx,

It seems I need to learn PC mouse protocol and try to find out how the mouse packets are processed.
I wish to also try your sermouse driver, but I was not able to find it at Dilwyns site or anywhere on the net.

Can you help?

Many thanks

TCAT

Hi Dave, Thank you for your feedback, as I said it is not perfect, I have only a multitmeter, and a plain (pistol type) soldering iron, no osciloscope, and having no sound knowledge in micro electronics this is possibly best as most hobbyist can do. I have just 128K unexpanded QL, only microdrives, ...

Hi Afx, I have done the connections, and tried simple copying mouse packets to the screen copy ser1 to scr It puts out a lot of garbage on the screen upon the mouse moves and clicks, so I believe connections are good. Also tested the mouse works under Linux. MyMouse.jpg However so far I cannot get i...

Afx,

I use stty command to set terminal line settings, then cat or cp files over /dev/ttyS1.
You can follow my earlier posts here,

http://www.qlforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php? ... 3651#p3651

and here,
http://www.qlforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php? ... 4805#p4805

TCAT

Dilwyn, Thank you, I see there are even more options than I thought. I have got the Genious My Mouse model, using pins 2-3-5-7, I beleive I need to take the second option from your list. Sorry about the Rusian, the only picture I found on the net. Genius MyMouse.png I wonder if the DIY TOOLKIT by Si...