• Updated 2023-07-12: Hello, Guest! Welcome back, and be sure to check out this follow-up post about our outage a week or so ago.

ADB To Atari ST Converter

raoulduke

Well-known member
Gorgonops, you're right; I just happened to have a bunch of ADB mice that I don't specifically need.  Archer, I may try that method for Amiga, if I ever get an Amiga that lacks a mouse.  Or I might just try it in general, eventually.  Very cool.

 

Gorgonops

Moderator
Staff member
The problem, as noted, with an ADB mouse is it only has one button and the ST (and Amiga) actually really want two. I suppose you could do something lame like drill a hole and put a momentary contact pushbutton onto the side of the case, but... considering I *still* to this day am regularly tripping over craptastic PS/2 ball mice it seems like sort of a no-brainer to use one of them instead. ADB mice actually at least in *theory* have some "vintage computing" value; they are more common than Amiga or ST mice, sure, but they're not making them any more either. It's not hard to still buy a brand new PS/2 mouse.

 
Last edited by a moderator:
Top