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Thanks to Super Mario 64, Crash Bandicoot, and other mascot platformers from the Nintendo 64 and PS1 era, the PS2 featured a plethora of third-party 3D platformers. Many have returned to modern ...

A note on the USB-to-PS/2 mouse adapter that came with Microsoft mouse devices - The Old New Thing Basically, USB and PS/2 are completely different protocols and are not compatible. Therefore ...

Let down by its overall cheap look, this mouse lacks the finesse needed from a premium wireless gaming mouse, besides having otherwise great performance. Sadly, awkward ergonomics keep the Kone XP ...

Active adapter for connect PS/2 mouse to the RS232C serial port. With this adapter you don't need to search and buy rare and expensive old serial mouse for your retro computer. Any mouse with PS/2 ...

In most cases, only one of the HCI devices (mouse or keyboard) might fail to work. The solutions in this article are for both of them. You can also toggle on-screen keyboard if your keyboard isn’t ...

The PS/2 port, also known as the Personal System/2 port, is a type of connector found on some computers that is used to connect peripherals such as a keyboard or mouse. It was introduced by IBM in ...

A small adapter circuit was built based on an ATtiny. It converts the signals from a PS/2 mouse to control nine outputs; two of them are used to encode the direction of the moving scroll wheel.

PS/2 connectors are typically color-coded, with the keyboard port being purple and the mouse port being green. They use a six-pin mini-DIN connector, which is a type of connector that is also used for ...

Olimex ESP32-SBC-FabGL is an ESP32 single board computer that can serve as the brain of a retro computer with a VGA port, a 3.5mm audio jack, and two PS/2 ports for a keyboard and mouse that are ...