Cocolino PS⁄2-Mouse interface

The Cocolino PS/2 mouse interface is a microprocessor-based adapter for attaching PC mice, trackballs, glidepoints and radio-controlled mice to all models of Amiga computers.

Cocolino supports the PS/2-native mouse features like the middle, 4th and 5th buttons, wheels and high resolution.

Hardware requirements
The minimum hardware configuration is: any Amiga computer model and a PS/2 (or USB-PS/2) PC mouse.

Features
The Cocolino PS/2 Mouse Interface supports PS/2 and USB-PS/2 mice operating in the following protocols:

• Standard 3-byte PS/2 protocol,
• Microsoft Intellimouse wheel protocol,
• Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer wheel protocol,
• Genius NetScroll Optical protocol.

Cocolino converts these PS/2 mouse protocols to the Amiga Mouse Port format. The conversion is effected entirely by the interface microprocessor, so NO additional software drivers are required.

The interface starts working on the computer's start-up, so any mouse connected through the Cocolino interface may be used in the early-startup-menu.

Additional features:

• wheels support,
• 3rd, 4th and 5th buttons support.

Cocolino allows scrolling in both horizontal and vertical directions even with mice with one wheel only.

Installation
The Cocolino PC mouse interface fits into the Amiga Mouse port.

Software
The Cocolino PC mouse interface package includes the following wheels-supporting software:

• Cocolino.driver,
• CocolinoTest,
• FreeWheel.

The input events generated by Cocolino.driver are compliant with the format used by the NewMouse program (by Alessandro Zummo) and with OS4 IDCMP format (from cocolino.driver ver.1.2). This ensures full compatibility with all the existing wheel-support software.