What's the situation with scroll wheel mice and Amigas?

[kyle_b]

For about a year I've been using my A1200 with a logitech USB mouse, via some adapter I bought off of ebay. It bothers me that the scroll wheel doesn't work even with freewheel running.

Looking on ebay again I can see there's a bunch of different options, but not much (if anything) is said about scroll wheel support. Some of these designs even only work with USB mice that support PS/2 protocol for use with passive adapters for office PCs.

What's the right setup to use here?

 

[comraider]

I remember using a Cocolino adaptor on my A1200 with a PS/2 mouse and wheel support worked fine with that setup.

 

[Bladejack]

Have you seen this >? https://aminet.net/package/driver/input/MouseDriver

 

[Boing-ball]

There a few solutions which are available.

An Older adapter for 9pin to PS/2 mice include

Eye tech Mouse adapter with Driver software

Current Adapters available are

Elbox Cocolino

Individual Computers Micromys

Have used both of the above.
Currently I am using the V4 Micromys adapter with my Amigas. For some reason it makes for a smoother experience.
Have used the Cocolino adapter as well.
The latest Micromys is the V5.

 

[kyle_b]

Have you seen this >? https://aminet.net/package/driver/input/MouseDriver

It's for those strange powerpc things and doesn't work on amigas

Seems that nobody has actually made a wheel mouse compatible USB adapter at all, just PS/2. A strange omission considering how much money people spend on hardware these days, but you can't get a modern mouse that works properly!

 

[Xanxi]

Of course someone has made it.
There is HID2AMI available on Amibay up to version 3 which works fine with mouse wheel since v2 (and V1 if you can do very small soldering mod). @sampedenawa
There is also Mouster but i really use this one only for gamepads so can't confirm myself about the wheel.