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the third button was a decoy to stop you discovering the hidden fourth button
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:mysteries are stored in the middle button of the ball mouse a-
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Sweevo posted:the third button was a decoy to stop you discovering the hidden fourth button Oh, you mean when you tilt your mouse wheel left or right?
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On Acorns (RiscOS) the middle button was the context menu and used more. The right button was similar to the left button but behaved how it does in Windows if you're holding the control key (selecting/deselecting items in a set). Individual applications would also make use of all three buttons since they were guaranteed to be present and users were primed to using them.
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Dec 26, 2021 19:48
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iMac puck mice with one dumb rear end button.
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i don’t mean modern 3 buttons i meant like a logitech mouseman for AT compatable pcs, ones which used an aopen motherboard and an s3 video card
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Dec 26, 2021 23:51
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shoeberto posted:iMac puck mice with one dumb rear end button. if there had been a yospos apple thread then, the posters in it would have defended it
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gabensraum posted:On Acorns (RiscOS) the middle button was the context menu and used more. The right button was similar to the left button but behaved how it does in Windows if you're holding the control key (selecting/deselecting items in a set). oh my god riscOS that's what we had at my school and why I remembered 3 button mice from about 10 years before I ever saw one anywhere else
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Wild EEPROM posted:i don’t mean modern 3 buttons i meant like a logitech mouseman for AT compatable pcs, ones which used an aopen motherboard and an s3 video card Application defined under Windows. Can't remember if OS/2 presentation manager had a default but probably not (could be used for hotkeys/chording) since it was kept close to windows. I think the default for Unix was paste. When you say AT compatible... Your talking about the form factor right? Not like an IBM PC/AT? edit: middle mouse was usually double click on OS/2. SYSV Fanfic fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Dec 27, 2021 |
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:oh my god riscOS that's what we had at my school and why I remembered 3 button mice from about 10 years before I ever saw one anywhere else U can run it for free on a pi one, two, three, or zero. I really dig the ability to fall into a full screen basic interpreter.
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Progressive JPEG posted:web-safe colors rofl
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Speaking of school computers, Ontario had these really lovely Unisys ICON computers they’d dumped a bunch of money into. Wikipedia tells me they ran proto-QNX and they were around from like 1982 or something but I’m pretty sure I didn’t see them in my school until probably 1990. All I remember was they had some weird game where you built a robot, though Wikipedia also tells me that much like everything ever produced in Canada they had some weird “heritage” stuff about fur trading and apparently driving around Canada in a pickup truck  bad computer
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i had a game for amiga that was called something like Robo[war?] you had some robots and you programmed them like xcom (go to this place, then watch and shoot, etc). it was a lot of fun. dunno if it was canadian
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The whole system was built for the Ontario ministry of education so I guarantee you it’s a hundred times blander than anything you might be thinking of
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this was a game with a box
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Martytoof posted:much like everything ever produced in Canada they had some weird “heritage” stuff about fur trading and apparently driving around Canada in a pickup truck cross country canada owns actually https://archive.org/details/msdos_Crosscountry_Canada_1991   
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That's a game? Looks like an attempt to use schoolchildren to brute force the traveling poutine salesman problem. Like the plot of toys, but for canadian light industry.
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It’s like Oregon Trail except instead of dying of dysentery you die of boredom
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Martytoof posted:It’s like Oregon Trail except instead of dying of dysentery you die of boredom Hearty lol
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we played cross country canada in school in the early 90s. it was boring then, too.
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oregon trail deluxe for macos 8 is the canonical oregon trail
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carry on then posted:oregon trail deluxe for macos 8 is the canonical oregon trail No it’s the one for the apple ][
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Martytoof posted:It’s like Oregon Trail except instead of dying of dysentery you die of boredom  Captain Foo posted:No it’s the one for the apple ][ 
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Captain Foo posted:No it’s the one for the apple ][ Sorry but this is the correct answer
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good god you all are old
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carry on then posted:good god you all are old it beats the alternative.
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Martytoof posted:It’s like Oregon Trail except instead of dying of dysentery you die of boredom
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carry on then posted:good god you all are old hi welcome to yospos, nice to finally have you here.
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I just got the rank of trail guide on the ibm dos version. Astoundingly all I did was make adult deciscions and my entire family made it to oregon alive.
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SYSV Fanfic posted:I just got the rank of trail guide on the ibm dos version. Astoundingly all I did was make adult deciscions and my entire family made it to oregon alive. you were in your forties when you played it though
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carry on then posted:good god you all are old sounds like you pressed return to size up the situation
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i graduated from oregon trail to playing MDK on the classroom’s imac during recess in grade school 
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the apple ii version is indeed the canonical one. I spent more hours on a fancier mac classic version, but the green characters come to my mind first
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i started out on the c64 version, which was nowhere as good looking as the apple ii release.
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the macos version is better
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PCjr sidecar posted:the macos version is better
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Captain Foo posted:sounds like you pressed return Achmed Jones posted:you were in your forties when you played it though I remember playing it in grade school in the computer lab on apple 2s. Kid me was dumb as hell. Rivers 8 feet deep, 200 feet wide? Hmm, let's ford. Queue third grader surprise and panic when the wagon floods. One kid figured out you could move around while hunting and it was like he'd independently discovered general relativity.
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