In article <20030329012033.GA2418@olib.org>,
Richard Rauch <rkr@olib.org> wrote:

Have you tried a serial mouse? Alternatively we could write a pseudo device
that behaves like a linux mouse...

christos

>I recently saw ``Heretic 2'' for cheap at a local store.  At $2, I figured
>that I couldn't really miss (especially since I recalled that the demo
>played in the past).
>
>When I installed it, I was reminded whey I had uninstalled the demo:
>Under 1.6 and/or XFree86 4.x, the silly thing is almost unplayable.
>It worked beautifully under 1.5.x.
>
>The "normal" effect under XFree86 4.x and NetBSD 1.6 is to effectively
>freeze the game while you hold a mouse button and drag the mouse (at
>least if you drag left or right).
>
>The real game, at least, has a second alternative for the mouse mode.
>In the alternate form, the game completely botches the mouse events.
>(Probably thinks that it's talking directly to a GNU/LINUX driver, but
>instead is talking to wsmouse and didn't bother to check if it knew the
>protocol being used).
>
>
>Any ideas about using this, other than digging out XFree86 3.x and/or
>NetBSD 1.5.x?
>
>It's not a big deal, and is only a $2 game from a company (Loki) that
>is no longer in business I gather.  Still...  Would be nice to be able
>to play it, and I don't consider mouseless play an option. (^&
>
>(I guess that one thing I have not tried is plugging in a PS/2 mouse
>and telling XFree86 to talk to the PS/2 port instead.  I wonder if that
>would let the "direct to mouse" protocol bit work correctly?)
>
>
>-- 
>  "I probably don't know what I'm talking about."  --rkr@olib.org