Revision as of 05:21, 11 March 2025 view source JCW-CleanerBot (talk \| contribs) Bots 136,963 edits m task, replaced: journal=IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT) → journal=IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction Tag: AWB ← Previous edit		Revision as of 16:12, 24 March 2025 view source Hexware (talk \| contribs) Extended confirmed users 756 edits →Early mice: Remove irrelevant information. This was a property of all "legacy" Dx-# and DIN connectors. Just because you COULD plug in a different device doesn't mean you should. It "not working" was expected. What WOULD be reasonable to note (if true) would be that a mouse DID work as a joystick. Tag: 2017 wikitext editor Next edit →
Line 262: The earliest mass-market mice, such as the [[Apple mouse#Models\|original Macintosh]], [[Amiga]], and [[Atari ST]] mice used a [[D-subminiature]] 9-pin connector to send the quadrature-encoded X and Y axis signals directly, plus one pin per mouse button. The mouse was a simple optomechanical device, and the decoding circuitry was all in the main computer. The [[DE-9 connector]]s were designed to be electrically compatible with the [[joystick#Electronic games\|joysticks]] popular on numerous 8-bit systems, such as the [[Commodore 64]] and the [[Atari 2600]]. Although the ports could be used for both purposes, the signals must be interpreted differently. As a result, plugging a mouse into a joystick port causes the "joystick" to continuously move in some direction, even if the mouse stays still, whereas plugging a joystick into a mouse port causes the "mouse" to only be able to move a single pixel in each direction. === Serial interface and protocol ===

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