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AMX Mouse

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, AMX Pagemaker, AMX Palette, AMX Control and Icon Designer.

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AMX Mouse
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    • Advanced Memory Systems
    Introduced1985 (1985)
    Typecomputer mouse

    AMX Mouse was a 1985 computer mouse sold by the British company Advanced Memory Systems.1 The mouse has 3 buttons. It was sold with a dedicated interface, and usually with some accompanying software such as AMX Art (MacPaint clone),2 AMX Pagemaker, AMX Palette, AMX Control and Icon Designer.3

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    Market

    The AMX Mouse product was sold for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and BBC Micro computers,45 along with the Acorn Electron (through Advanced Computer Products),67 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 as OCP Advanced Art Studio8 or Max Desktop.9 The game Starglider is also listed as being compatible.10

    Other software

    Other available software for the BBC Micro from the manufacturer was:5

    • AMX 3D Zicon which took 3D vector drawings 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

    References

    1. "AMX Mouse". Spectrum Computing - Sinclair ZX Spectrum games, software and hardware.
    2. "AMX Art". Spectrum Computing - Sinclair ZX Spectrum games, software and hardware. Archived from the original on 2024-04-25. Retrieved 2026-01-03.
    3. Frey, Franco (April 1986). "AMX MOUSE". Crash. No. 27.
    4. "AMX Mouse, For the BBC Micro". CLASSIC COMPUTER BROCHURES. Advanced Memory Systems Ltd. 1984.
    5. Whytehead, Chris (2011). "Advanced Memory Systems AMX Mouse". Chris's Acorns. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2018-03-29.
    6. "CPCRULEZ > AMSTRAD CPC > > HARDWARE > SOURIS > AMX MOUSE". cpcrulez.fr. Retrieved 2025-04-18.
    7. "Now Electron can have its own mouse". Electron User. Vol. 4, no. 3. December 1986. p. 5. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
    8. "Advanced Art Studio". Spectrum Computing - Sinclair ZX Spectrum games, software and hardware.
    9. "Max Desktop". Spectrum Computing - Sinclair ZX Spectrum games, software and hardware. Archived from the original on 2025-07-18. Retrieved 2026-01-03.
    10. "Input Devices Supported : AMX Mouse". MobyGames. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2018-03-29.
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