Recommend Mouse adaptor?

[Angus]

Originally Posted by Photon

It uses Cocolino and Freewheel software, which are for WB 3.1 and below (AFAIK). Possibly if you have another with built in support for the same it could change how it reads the mouse, this is very central to AmigaOS.

If you are on 3.1, you can always temporarily remove the Cocolino and Freewheel software and see if it behaves normally on left-click.

Did it solve your original problem in the game (and is it run from WB or not)?

I'm running 3.1 and I had Cocolino and Freewheel installed for the previous (PS2) mouse with a Cocolino adaptor. I don't think I still have the Cocolino software, but it is installed - is it freeware?


Yes, without any drivers running, the Tikus works like a normal 2 button Amiga mouse - and yes, it fixes the problem I had with not being able to scroll the map in Steel Empire (WHDLoad).



I'm just frustrated that I don't seem to be able to get the middle button/scrollwheel working, despite the fact that it worked with the previous mouse/adaptor.

[Photon]

Solution: OK, so another few hours gone from my lifetime.

I tested all the adapters in my spreadsheet except Micromys (driver) which I will conclude from the test work like the others:

Just get the specific mouse driver for the adapter and then FreeWheel will work automatically. The wrong driver will give MMB clicks on LMB (which with FreeWheel will switch screen) and spurious stuff like you're experiencing. (So if you leave the Cocolino driver in there it will probably mess stuff up even if you install the correct one. Just comment it out in s:User-Startup.)

>> To confirm correct mouse drivers (and for some adapters maybe also "adapter mode" just run RawKeys. Great program!

So e.g. here >> on the TIKUS product page follow instructions, and TankMouse.lha is the driver.

Tested with:

• Cocolino original driver (my disk had driver v1.3) + old non-HID mouse (obviously)
• HID2AMI with driver from Github + old non-HID mouse and the 2 winners of the test (HID mice with DPI memory)
• TIKUS with the 2 winners of the test (HID mice with DPI memory)

That's it!

[Angus]

Originally Posted by Photon

Solution: OK, so another few hours gone from my lifetime.

I tested all the adapters in my spreadsheet except Micromys (driver) which I will conclude from the test work like the others:

Just get the specific mouse driver for the adapter and then FreeWheel will work automatically. The wrong driver will give MMB clicks on LMB (which with FreeWheel will switch screen) and spurious stuff like you're experiencing. (So if you leave the Cocolino driver in there it will probably mess stuff up even if you install the correct one. Just comment it out in s:User-Startup.)

First of all, thanks ever so much for your time and trouble.


No success so far.


Using the Tikus adaptor the usb mouse I bought works fine but not with the wheel/middle button(wheel click).


I've gone through my user-startup and commented out any other drivers and installed Tankmouse. The mouse doesn't seem to act any differently whether Tankmouse is installed or not. Freewheel doesn't make a difference either. Freewheel is working though because I can speed up or slow down the mouse acceleration and it does save to it's config file.


AmigaStore.eu (where I bought the Tikus says to use the Cocolino driver). :-/


I will take a look at Rawkeys tomorrow. Again, thanks for your advice, I'm possibly doing something stupid, but I really don't know what.