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I remember thinking as a nipper that if only I had a second mouse, I could plug it in and have two pointers. I was interested in this for solitaire-cheating purposes: I thought I'd be able to click-drag away the top card (with nowhere to put it) and then (while holding it still with the other mouse) click to reveal the one underneath.

And what could be better than that.

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Linux (or rather Xorg) has support for 2 pointers. I wonder, if each mouse pulls on one side of the desktop, does it stretch or does it shatter?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Multi-pointer_X

Linux being linux, I bet it rather deforms the fabric of time before stretching the other dimensions. Can’t wait for quantum computers with a 5th dimension.

> Linux being linux, I bet it rather deforms the fabric of time before stretching the other dimensions. Can’t wait for quantum computers with a 5th dimension.

Depends on what driver you have. That only happens if the spacetime driver is loaded, you can change which one it loads at startup by altering your xorg.conf file

You can still use the spacetime driver at runtime if you remembered to load the anti-entropy plugin at boot. You just set the system clock back to (uptime - 1), load the spacetime driver and then fast-forward time back to now. Though you should make sure not to make any filesystem (or family tree) modifications while you have the system in the past. See the video tutorial "Back to the Future" for more info.

The Amiga had support for this in circa 1985. You could play 2-player competitive lemmings which was a game like nothing I've seen since.

I remember playing Settlers in 2-player mode with a mouse each on my Amiga 1200. I thought that was the only game with support for that, TIL...

Settlers at least, had support for 2 mice back it the day.

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