How i can test an ST mouse with an Atari 800XL?

[Zybex]

I'm looking for a program for use the ST mouse and test it.

 

I use SAM, but when i connect the mouse to the joy 1, the arrow on the screen moves with "inertia", and the buttons doesn`t responding.

When i connect the mouse to the port 2, nothing happens.

 

Please, recommend me a program for test this mouse...

[Mindfield]

DiamondOS had support for an ST mouse...

[LYNXGUY]

Sorry but the Atari 8 bits are not compatible with the ST computers and Atari 8 bits do not use a mouse at least not that I know of.

[miker]

@LynxGuy:

 

Then you really don't know enough

 

@Zybex:

 

There are some games which use the ST Mouse - for example try Shanghai or Operation Blood, select appropriate option and plug mouse into PORT2. Et voilla!

[dinosaur]

IIRC...There was an Easter egg in Missile Command.

 

When you booted the game,you pressed a key at the title page and could use an ST mouse,I believe in joyport 2.

 

I'll bet Curt Vendal knows more about this

[LYNXGUY]

Hey miker why so mad

I only typed what I believe is true and I am not and I don't claim to be an Atari know it all I just don't know everything Atari, I know alot but not everything

thanks for the info anyway, I always learn something new whenever I log onto this site.

 

There are probably hundreds of games for the 8bit that I am not aware of

 

It'is a surprise to me that there is an 8 bit game that uses a mouse

 

Where would one buy a mouse when Shanghai or Operation Blood came out ??

 

I wasn't aware that atari made a mouse until I bought an ST.

 

When was the 8 bit mouse made public, I never seen it anywhere

[Zybex]

Thanks for the tips.

 

Another thing : SAM = "Screen Aided Managment"

[dinosaur]

There was a commercially made mouse made just for the 8bit called:

 

"The Rat"

 

It came with a disk containing software (drivers?)

I believe it was made Zobian Controls.

 

Problem was,it cost as much as an 800XL at the time!

I think very few were sold.

[pps]

I wasn't aware that atari made a mouse until I bought an ST.

When was the 8 bit mouse made public, I never seen it anywhere  

 

Hmm, I don´t know if there was ever made one especially for the ATARI 8-Bit, but since the Joyport of the "little" ATARIs are the better ones, even everything what you cann connect to ST shall work with A8! Just someone have to write a driver for that device.

[miker]

Hey miker why so mad    

 

sorry - must had bad day that day...

[krupkaj]

I remember that some music program from BeWe need ST mouse for control

[+Mitch]

Doesn't anyone read the Atari 8-bit FAQ?

 

Subject: 8.6) What programs have a track ball mode or support a mouse?

 

Contributors: Andreas Magenheimer, Mirko Sobe  

 

    Title                                Keystroke Required  

 --------------                         ---------------------  

- Missile Command by Atari               CTRL-T  

- Slime by Synapse                       [T]  

- Shanghai by Activision                 choose controller type: ST mouse !  

                                        (plug it into port 2; if you do not

                                        have one, you have to reboot!!)  

- Bombdown by Roemer of Uno              choose between Joystick, Amiga  

                                        mouse, ST mouse or CX85 numeric  

                                        keypad (use port 2 for any mice)  

- Minesweeper by Raindorf-Soft           use an ST mouse in port 2  

- The Brundles by KE-Soft                use an ST mouse in port 2  

- The Brundles Editor by KE-Soft, PD     use an ST mouse in port 2  

- Geisterschloss by KE-Soft, PD          choose Lightgun (port 1) or ST  

                                        mouse (port 2)  

- Vanish (ZONG, Vol. 5+6/1993);          use an ST-mouse in port 2  

- Hong Kong (ZONG, Vol. 5+6/1993);       use an ST-mouse in port 2

- Maus-DOS (ZONG 5+6/1993);              use an ST-mouse in port 2

- Faecher-Patience (ZONG 1/1993);        use an ST-mouse in port 2

- Macao (Zong 5+6/1994);                 use an ST-mouse in port 2

- Multi-Mouse manager (PD)               drivers for mice, TB, etc.  

- Multiplayer 2.1 by Madteam             supports ST + Amiga mouse in port A

- Unriagh I (german PD adventure)        has drivers for ST mouse+Joystick  

                                        (stick=port 1, mouse=port2)  

- Unriagh II (german PD adventure)       has drivers for ST mouse+joystick  

                                        (stick=port 1, mouse=port 2)  

- little Calculator (AMC-Verlag, PD)     uses ST-mouse only (port 2)  

- big UPN calculator (PD)                uses ST mouse, TB, Touch tab. and  

                                        joystick; (there are different COM  

                                        files, rename the one you wish to  

                                        use to *.EXE; all drivers use port  

                                        1 - if I remember correctly)  

- Operation Blood (ANG/Mirage)           press mouse fire or Select to start

                                        in ST mouse mode (port 2)  

- Operation Blood 2 / Special Forces     press mouse fire or Select to start  

        (ANG/Mirage)                    in ST mouse mode  

- Sprint XL (ABBUC Jahresgabe 1992)      uses an ST mouse in port 2  

- M.O.S. (ABBUC magazine)                uses an ST mouse in port 2  

- Diamond GOS (Reeve software)           all three versions support an ST  

                                        mouse in port 2  

- S.A.M. (Power per Post)                german GUI, supports an ST mouse in  

                                        port 2  

- G.O.E. (TCS)                           supports an ST mouse in port 1  

- BOSS-X (MS-Software, Mirko Sobe)       supports ST-Mouse in Port 2  

 

Mitch

[ZZTOP SOFT]

anybody read the FAQ Mitch

[Zybex]

Sorry, but i'm looking for a BASIC or ASM routine.

[devwebcl]

Sorry, but i'm looking for a BASIC or ASM routine.

 

look at http://www.strotmann.de/twiki/bin/view/APG/TrackBall

 

 

--devwebcl

[Bunsen]

Sorry, but i'm looking for a BASIC or ASM routine.

 

MOUSE.ARC John Maris tells us how to use an ST or Amiga mouse on the 8 bit Atari without its driver taking up all of our CPU time.

MOUSEINT.ARC The driver in .M65 format plus a demo to show you how it works.

 

http://www.mathyvannisselroy.nl/special%20...tuff.htm#diving

[Heaven/TQA]

van nistelroy???

 

bunsen... great games!!!

 

love bremspunkt... esp. the music by beetle... hehehe... reminds me xenon2?

[Bunsen]

love bremspunkt... esp. the music by beetle... hehehe... reminds me xenon2?

 

yeah, bremspunkt is one of the best multijoy-games, but the very best is cervi

 

2004 we started a 'cervi world ranking', we played on 3 events in europe.

 

http://mitglied.lycos.de/gunnarbusse/bajam...trangliste.html