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AMX Mouse was a 1985 computer mouse sold by the British company Advanced Memory Systems. The mouse has 3 buttons. It was sold with a dedicated interface, and usually with some accompanying software such as ''AMX Art'' ( MacPaint clone), ''AMX Pagemaker'', ''AMX Palette'', ''AMX Control'' and ''Icon Designer''.
Market
The AMX Mouse product was sold for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and BBC Micro computers, along with the Acorn Electron (through Advanced Computer Products), these being popular home computers at the time. As such, it allowed modern user interfaces to be present in common household machines. It was compatible with art software such asOCP Advanced Art Studio
OCP Art Studio or Art Studio was a popular bitmap graphics editor released in 1985, created by Oxford Computer Publishing and written by James Hutchby (original ZX Spectrum version).
It featured a GUI with windows, icons, pull-down menus, pointin ...
or Max Desktop. The game Starglider is also listed as being compatible.
Other software
Other available software from the manufacturer was: *''AMX 3D Zicon'' which took 3Dvector drawings
Vector graphics is a form of computer graphics in which visual images are created directly from geometric shapes defined on a Cartesian plane, such as points, lines, curves and polygons. The associated mechanisms may include vector display a ...
and converted them to AMX Art format. Also allowed sketching in 2D and converting to 3D;
*''AMX Database'' which was a database with a graphical user interface;
*''AMX XAM'' which created multiple choice exams with pictures from AMX Art;
*''AMX Paintpot'' which coloured pictures produced with AMX Art.
References
External links
*{{Commonscatinline, Advanced Memory Systems AMX Mouse Computer mice Legacy hardware Home computer peripherals ZX Spectrum Acorn Computers Amstrad CPC