18th May 1998
Talking in a newsgroup about mousing with your other arm:
> I could get the wires in the mouse changed over, Hahahaha! This is Acorn. There is always a patch for something or other. :-)
Swapping wires? That's for Unix folk that can't find the right setup file to tweak. :-)
Seriously, I tried a patch "RevMouse" to see if I'd like using the mouse as a
leftie. It was alien to me and I never got the hang of it. Yet I can (sorta
[1]) mouse right handed with little problem. The action key
is just 'expected' to be on the left...
[1] My co-ordination goes to hell [2] when mousing with my right arm. If I'm not paying attention, my movements are reversed and, well, my flight sim plane crashes.
[2] Not that my co-ordination is anything to brag about. I think my brain
resembles an early 80's homebuilt computer. Lots of same-coloured wires going
to various places they maybe shouldn't, a motherboard eight levels deep in
hardware patch upon hardware patch, ICs with legs bent up and tracks cut and
bridged with bits of fuse wire, and a seriously underspecified power supply
unit. It works, by damn, it works. By every so often there is a spark and a
brief burning smell and the thing stiffs, awaiting a reboot.