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I used to love the Amiga, but the mouse definitely wasn't something I loved about it. This brought back memories of me smashing mine against the desk in frustra

I used to love the Amiga, but the mouse definitely wasn't something I loved about it. This brought back memories of me smashing mine against the desk in frustration.

TacticalCoder 5y ago
Yup but back then they still used a ball. And that ball was always filthy and both the ball and the rest required regular cleaning (just as with other old mice).
- drcongo 5y ago
  Yeah, that ball was definitely the thing that caused me to smash it against the desk. I also have vague memories of the almost meditative process of regularly cleaning the wheels. Swings and roundabouts.
- b112 5y ago
  No kidding. And it tasted terrible too, I hated cleaning it.
detritus 5y ago
Yeah, likewise - I remember getting a very sore thenar* from those hard corners after the sort of stupidly-prolonged gaming sessions teenagers are capable of. Then I got a Naksha, which was borderline-futuristic. . * base of the thumb. I had to look it up, I'm not going to pretend I knew that.
Keyframe 5y ago
Exactly. Amiga was all these nice things, but mouse was definitely not one of them!