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LGR Oddware - ProHance Power Mouse 100

LGR Oddware - ProHance Power Mouse 100

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Time to take a look at this piece of retro tech: the ProHance PowerMouse! Forty buttons of MS-DOS application control right at your fingertips, what could be better?
Date: 2022-04-14

Comments and reviews: 10


I wish I had this mouse type thing I got -new- from a goodwill when I was a kid. Never got it to work it was sposed to be like a speed type mouse I think and you would or were sposed to move towards a link or whatever and would -zap-, you to that link I think as far as I remember I was only about 8 at the time. But I remember it being in shape of a cat not a mouse lol. know no one will know what I mean exspecially with my description but that's about all I remember and watching these reviews brings back the memory of it. Thanks for all the videos
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Crickey. My Mouse has an extra 2 buttons on the side that are completely ignored, but that is mental. It has like 200 buttons to ignore.
It gives me the vibes of them remotes you used to get with Windows 95 Packard Bell machines(at least here in England, anyways, and that was a fad that definitely never caught on. Maybe you could review one of those? Then again, maybe you already have and I just haven't seen it yet, that's happened to me a couple times in these comments.

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I couldn't see myself ever playing a game using a mouse. A joystick, sure because it generally mimic the arrow keys or typical keys used in current FPS games (WASD.
But with a numeric keypad on the device it was likely mean for office use (think: people using Excel (or whatever MS's spreadsheet program was called in 1990) or possibly Lotus 123. They could point to a cell (or navigate to one using the mouse) and then key in numbers without having to leave the mouse.

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Meanwhile, it would be years, before apple bothered adding a single additional button to their own mice. Maybe, Windows needed Mouse. com. Those buttons seem much too tiny, to be useful as a numeric keypad. The whole thing just seems excessive. I would be happy, if Xinput allowed for just a few more buttons. It always seems like games have more functions than the various controllers can deliver.
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As a long time cad user I-ve seen a lot of these gimmicks. The digitizers never worked like advertised (making it easy to -draw- over a hand sketch. The best thing I-ve used is a standard 3 button trackball mouse and keyboard shortcuts. I know some guys that swear by the 3D mouse, but I don-t see any real production gains.
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its just like a modern MMO gaming mouse, it has a high pretty high learning curve. The razer naga for example has 17 buttons, 12 of which are controlled just by the thumb, and people are VERY good at that mouse. I think it would legit have a good speed advantage for workflow. Regardless, great video!
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Dude I would love this mouse. I would reprogram the mouse for my programming use where a button would line down, delete line, wrap selection in braces, select various parts of under the cursor (instead of the triple click scheme which never picks up what I want to replace, and more.
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Profit margins on technology products were much greater in the 1980s and 1990s and technology was more expensive to produce.
For example a Canon BJC 800 A3 printer in around 1988 was advertised in a computer magazine with a sale price around $25, 000 Canadian dollars.

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3: 00 It's a mouse! It's a numeric keypad! It's a joystick! A remote device! A digitising tablet! It can do wonders, including curing coronavirus before it was ever a thing! It's the ProHance Power Mouse!
Buy one today, while stocks last!

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Honestly though if you had to work with the same program every day and all day this could probably make you a bit faster. And that's exactly the niche market they aimed for. For the casual user this seems very unpracticle.
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