techknight
Well-known member
Anyone seen one of these yet? being able to use a ball or optical PS/2 mouse on an original macintosh 128/512/plus without using the original mouse.
I am making such an adapter and I have almost completed it, got the PS2 protocols working nicely in code, and going to finish up on the quadrature output routines. This way, i can use a modern mouse on an older machine, as my 512k has NO mouse and NO keyboard. so instead of using your keyboard and mouse if you have one, and would rather keep it in pristine condition, but at the same time, tinker with the mac itself, then this might be for you
there is a keyboard translator already out there, i may integrate it into all in one code, but for now, just doing mouse only.
Do you think this idea would raise enough interest to warrant releasing? if so, once finished ill release the source along with the compiled binary and schematics. it will be using an ATtiny2313 microcontroller, but with source, you can compile it for any, as its written in BASIC.
I am making such an adapter and I have almost completed it, got the PS2 protocols working nicely in code, and going to finish up on the quadrature output routines. This way, i can use a modern mouse on an older machine, as my 512k has NO mouse and NO keyboard. so instead of using your keyboard and mouse if you have one, and would rather keep it in pristine condition, but at the same time, tinker with the mac itself, then this might be for you
there is a keyboard translator already out there, i may integrate it into all in one code, but for now, just doing mouse only.
Do you think this idea would raise enough interest to warrant releasing? if so, once finished ill release the source along with the compiled binary and schematics. it will be using an ATtiny2313 microcontroller, but with source, you can compile it for any, as its written in BASIC.