Mu0n
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I want to use my Gravis MouseStick drivers on a SE to play Archon.
Archon: according to Mac Garden, it's stable under System 1.0 to 4.2. My tests are not extensive here, but under 6.0.8 on my SE, you can have no sound effects to not having clicking funtionality (though the mouse cursor moves)
MouseStick, hardware: requires an ADB port so the Mac SE is absolutely the barest minimal mac on which to do this (allows deep dips into the earlier System versions). Even without the drivers, the joystick acts as a mouse, but under "self-centering" settings, which isn't ideal for some games (including Archon)
MouseStick, drivers: the documentation says you need at least Sysyem 6.0.4 (which I haven't tried) to System 6.0.8 (which I've tried but it makes Archon glitchy) and System 7.0+ (fuggedaboutit for Archon). You can set a non-default configuration for the joystick as the OS loads, but you need the cdev present in the System folder for it to work.
My question : are cdevs only working with 6.0.4 and up only? Or could you use them with like 6.0 or 5.0?
There might be an out-of-spec combo out there which lets me use all these 3 things together.
Archon: according to Mac Garden, it's stable under System 1.0 to 4.2. My tests are not extensive here, but under 6.0.8 on my SE, you can have no sound effects to not having clicking funtionality (though the mouse cursor moves)
MouseStick, hardware: requires an ADB port so the Mac SE is absolutely the barest minimal mac on which to do this (allows deep dips into the earlier System versions). Even without the drivers, the joystick acts as a mouse, but under "self-centering" settings, which isn't ideal for some games (including Archon)
MouseStick, drivers: the documentation says you need at least Sysyem 6.0.4 (which I haven't tried) to System 6.0.8 (which I've tried but it makes Archon glitchy) and System 7.0+ (fuggedaboutit for Archon). You can set a non-default configuration for the joystick as the OS loads, but you need the cdev present in the System folder for it to work.
My question : are cdevs only working with 6.0.4 and up only? Or could you use them with like 6.0 or 5.0?
There might be an out-of-spec combo out there which lets me use all these 3 things together.
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