[WinMac] Using a USB scrolling mouse on a Mac

Daniel L. Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Wed, 22 Sep 1999 09:01:44 -0400

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Alessandro Levi Montalcini's USB OverDrive 1.2
<<http://www.usboverdrive.com/> "adds some useful new features, fixes all
known problems, and improves performance for many existing features" in
the universal USB driver for mice, trackballs, joysticks and gamepads.
This version of the $25 shareware requires Mac OS 8.5, recommends Mac OS
8.6 and supports Mac OS 9.

Jason Mark used USB Overdrive for a Microsoft USB mouse but "found it
sort of sloppy" and came up with another option offering a scroll wheel:

>>>>

<excerpt>"Another solution I found was USB Mouse-in-a-Box Scrolling.
ÀThis is also listed as a PC-only mouse, but Kensington's great tech
support emailed me the location of [Kensington drivers]
<<http://www.kensington.com/support/software.html>. Kensington also
creates a 2 button 'Mac' Mouse in a Box, but which does not include
scrolling. ÀI believe the Mac version is blue and costs more money than
the scrolling mouse. I find the Kensington to be better than the
Microsoft, and at a better price, too ($25) ... I know the [round] mouse
is the #1 thing that PC people in our shop don't like when learning
Macs."

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        Thought this would be helpful for us spoiled NT users! :)

        Cheers!

        Dan

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