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There are no optical mice made for the Amiga. Your only options are: - Use an adaptor with a standard mouse of your choice; - Use the AmigaKit mouse with built-in adaptor; - Modify your own mouse.
All of these will come in more expensive than a standard mouse for obvious reasons.
em that's what I thought would be the out come. Oh well little steps at a time I will have a working Amiga 1200 again. One of life's mistakes selling my 060 towered a1200 with Picasso IV.
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Re: Cheap optical classic Amiga mouse Posted on 24-May-2016 14:48:09
I had first optical mouse on my Amiga before pc's even heard of them. It did require a special mouse mate to function though. Cant remember who made them but it was great at the time.
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Re: Cheap optical classic Amiga mouse Posted on 24-May-2016 14:59:37
Joined: 18-Aug-2003 Posts: 2740
From: Gloucestershire UK
@g01df1sh
I bought an optical mouse for mine at the 1994 WOA show, the biggest problem was getting used to holding the mouse exactly straight on the mat or it went all over the place and I wore out 3 mats...
I know it's an adaptor but it qualifies under the cheap part of your request and if your 1200 is one with the seperare mouse pcb you can possibly mouse it internally fairly easily.
Edit:
One without an adaptor but doesn't say if it's optical or not.
Joined: 14-Jul-2003 Posts: 1680
From: Glasgow - UK, Irish born
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Yeah, I remember them, you could get them for the PC as well. I remember them being terribly fussy about the surface of the mousemat. They had 2 sensors on the bottom IIRC, I guess one for horizontal and one for vertical. Never got one myself though, preferred to keep with a ball until the technology got better and cheaper in the '00s.
Why do most of these adaptor have no mounting brackets. Like you said I could mount it inside I did this when I had a tower. Please can someone make a nice Amiga serial to usb/ps2 adapter with mounting bracket for either tower or A1200 / A600 case
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Re: Cheap optical classic Amiga mouse Posted on 24-May-2016 16:01:26
Ordered VGA adaptor and 3.1` compact flash with ide adapter from Amiga Kit. Also order the mouse adapter will let you know how it all goes. Oh and 3.1 roms
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