Fairlight-CMI

Hello Chaps,

Any Chance yet of the list vendor & model #'s printed on
> the bottom of those serial mice that work with the MFX controller
> running OS 9.34 on a Series III ?

Am in very great need of the mouse

Thanks for the help

Michael :) 


--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "David J. Wilson" 
<jeepcherokee_10@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Chris,
> 
> any chance you can list here some of the vendor & model #'s printed 
on
> the bottom of those serial mice that work with the MFX controller
> running OS 9.34 on a Series III ?
> 
> thanks a lot !
> 
> David
> 
> --- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "chaworth012000"
> <christopher.haworth@> wrote:
> >
> > Mike,
> > 
> > I have a selection of serial mice that are fine with my MFX 
> > controller. The one I have connected is a genuine Microsoft mouse 
> > which I paid around £3 for on eBay. Be careful of PS/2 mice that 
say 
> > they are serial port compatible. I have not had much success with 
> > these.
> > 
> > One caveat though; I can only get my mouse to operate correctly 
if 
> > the MFX controller has the rev 11 firmware loaded. If I load the 
> > 9.34 firmware, the mouse simply refuses to work. This of course 
> > means that when using rev9, there is an incompatibility with the 
MFX 
> > controller for MFX operation, but this has no real impact on CMI 
> > functions. It is interesting that rev11 gives you the option to 
> > choose the mouse type (set this to MS), whereas rev 9 doesn't.
> > 
> > Has anyone had any success with using a mouse / MFX controller 
with 
> > rev 9.34?
> > 
> > Chris.
> >
>