kind of works? reading multiple mice: any c programmers want to look at this?

[madscijr]

I can barely manage one keyboard, but okay!

Pete

Ha! 
Well I think it would be useful for things like multiplayer games (where each player gets their own keyboard or mouse), or educational or collaborative type applications, where as an alternative to networking 2 computers, additional users just plug into a spare USB port. 

My "killer app" for this is multiplayer Pong! 
Why must Pong games on the PC be limited to a single mouse, or for additional players, the keyboard? 
The game play is terrible! 
Atari had Quadrapong in 1974, and almost 50 years later we haven't got the ability to recreate that on a modern PC by simply plugging in a few mice.  
Why stop at 4? I'm thinking of stuff like Octopong!
And games like Atari Warlords, Duck Hunt type shooting games, collaborative jigsaw puzzle games, Tank or Spacewar! games where you use the mouse to aim, drawing, or using multi mice to make music. 

Or with multi keyboards, split screen games where players are simultaneously typing in their own keyboard. 

You would think this kind of thing would have been done already!