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Just as an add-on, if anyone does build either the PS/2 and serial mouse converter or serial mouse adapter to CD-i - please post details of success or failure here, just so I can have an idea of any problems or if I've drawn something wrong.

Thanks,
Craig

Writing a COM driver I think is going overkill, though I do have the WinDDK lying around somewhere. Perhaps queue the ID byte is a way forward with it. As for timing of the RTS being negated, while writing PIC code for the adapter - the CD-i seemed to hold it for longer if its struggling with the mo...

I had a go at that with a nullmodem cable I made up myself, but couldn't get windows to respond in time to the RTS toggle and as such the CD-i ignored it. I wrote a nice windows program to capture the mouse and send data too before I tried it properly, expecting it to work easily but I gave up after...

Has anyone been interested in building the PC serial mouse to CD-i adapter? Is there more interest in a P/S2 mouse to CD-i adapter?

Just wondered if anyone was thinking about building it.

Craig