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How to use USB mouse on the BBC Micro

If you do not already have a mouse rom enabled on your BBC, follows these instructions
Download the mouse driver from – https://mdfs.net/Software/CommandSrc/Mouse.zip – these files will need to be transferred to your BBC
  • Load the Mouse ROM into a spare ROM slot number, depending on your configuration, use a free slot number on your computer

    *SRLOAD "MouseRom" 8000
  • Initialise the ROM by pressing:

    CTRL + BREAK

  • Once the ROM has been initialised, enable the mouse by entering:

    *MOUSE ON
  • Finally, you can run the mouse test program using the command below

    CH. "MouseTest"