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The four resistors are all 1K for the button pullups and 10K for the Strobe pullup. The diodes are small signal diodes, likely 1N4148  
The four resistors are all 1K for the button pullups and 10K for the Strobe pullup. The diodes are small signal diodes, likely 1N4148  


Decoding uses A5, A6 and A7, and decoding for the z80 PIO is performed by the PIO itself as it has a chip enable and IORQ pin, however despite free inputs on the PIO, the Mouse Buttons are decoded separately and their output put onto the data lines via the diodes.
Decoding uses A5, A6 and A7, and decoding for the z80 PIO is performed by the PIO itself as it has a chip enable and IORQ pin, however despite free inputs on the PIO, the Mouse Buttons are decoded separately and their output put onto the data lines via the diodes. Four decoupling capacitors ( 0.1uF or "104" ) noted next to each IC.


== External links ==
== External links ==

Revision as of 00:17, 8 October 2022

The AMX Mouse comprises a bus-mouse and edge-connector interface created by Advanced Memory Systems.

It provided a 20 pin TTL bus-mouse interface and a 26 pin (25 pin, as it went to a DB25 via ribbon cable) Centronics style parallel port that supported the Strobe and Busy lines along with 8 data bits.

(Photo to go here.)

Software

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Circuit Layout

PCB layout

PCB layout is a relatively simple double-layer PCB that sits flat behind the ZX Edge connector.

Xray-AMX.jpg

The four resistors are all 1K for the button pullups and 10K for the Strobe pullup. The diodes are small signal diodes, likely 1N4148

Decoding uses A5, A6 and A7, and decoding for the z80 PIO is performed by the PIO itself as it has a chip enable and IORQ pin, however despite free inputs on the PIO, the Mouse Buttons are decoded separately and their output put onto the data lines via the diodes. Four decoupling capacitors ( 0.1uF or "104" ) noted next to each IC.

External links

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