using cocolino+PC mouse

[mrodfr]

hello,

after 10 years of great use, my wizard mouse had his left button not working great.(exchange left switch with middle switch could be possible ???)

I would like to change this mouse by cocolino (or other same hardware) and a PC mouse with 5 buttons and scrollwheel) see elbox site.

I would like to have some explanations of users of this same hardware mainly to know if there is problem with cocolino like:

- pointer jump, slow or too fast or suddenly freeze.
- programs that don't support the PC mouse.
- immediately found when the amigo boot and could be used to see the early startup sequence.
- Or simply of work great and I'm happy


bye

[thomas]

Originally Posted by mrodfr

- pointer jump, slow or too fast or suddenly freeze.

I have these in combination with a KVM switch. But no problems if the mouse is connected directly to the Cocolino.

- programs that don't support the PC mouse.

Not possible. The Cocolino turns the PC mouse into an Amiga mouse. Even games which bang the hardware directly work with it.

There are some problems with modern games (like Quake or Heretic2), though, if the scroll wheel driver is running. But you can stop the driver before you run the game and restart it afterwards.

- immediately found when the amigo boot and could be used to see the early startup sequence.

Yes, certainly. See above.

- Or simply of work great and I'm happy

I am.

[keropi]

everything works like an amiga mouse here, I use a topolinoIII

[mrodfr]

hello, thanks for answers.

100% sure no flicker, freeze or same when general use for all software ????

I said that because this hardware was tested on a french obligement site and the tester said sometime this problem arrive. http://obligement.free.fr/articles/cocolino.php

topolinoIII/cocolino ???


thanks thomas rapp for your great picshow. a verry great program. are you interested by bugs reports with my amiga or updated french translation in case pixel art stop their french catalog update ???

[thomas]

Well, I am not a gfx artist, so I might be satisfied where others aren't. All those PS/2->Amiga converters are said to draw stairways instead of diagonal lines and to move at least two or three pixels in high resolutions. I never noticed this. I usually use the mouse to click on gadgets. Every now and then I use PPaint to cut brushes out of bigger pictures and I never had problems to position the mouse pixel-exact.

However, this do-it-yourself converter is said to be better than all the commercial ones: http://www.aminet.net/search.php?query=ps2m&path=hard