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Old April 3rd, 2006, 02:03 PM
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Well, it's been far too long since I posted a followup, but - well - I did create a serial Wacom driver. ADB support has proven very daunting, but I have an iMate and an ADB tablet to work with, and code samples for an ADB ThrustMaster driver. So ADB support could happen this year!

Meanwhile, for those interested in Wacom serial support find my latest driver here:

http://thinkyhead.com/tabletmagic/
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Wow. I am honestly impressed. There's hope!

Get it working, and I will buy you a beer!
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The final answer is not good. According to the Thrustmaster Project and my contacts at Wacom ADB tablets simply cannot be supported in Mac OS X. I won't bore you with the details, but suffice it to say that both the iMate drivers and ADB.framework lack the essential hooks that would allow ADB tablets to work.

Rest in Peace, ADB!

That said, I've come across no major obstacles in writing the driver code for regular serial tablets, so if you end up with one of the many serial tablets supported by TabletMagic 2 you'll be able to use it in Mac OS X.
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Slur,

I just wanted to thank you for TabletMagic. I recently acquired a UD-1212 from a fellow designer of mine. I paid $60US for it (along with the Keyspan USA28X adapter) and it works great on my 1.5GHZ PowerBook G4 running Tiger.

I googled wacom, keyspan and driver and found your software. It was easy to install and get running once all the drivers were installed. Now I am trying to see if I can get the tablet to work on my PC through USB. Just to see if I can. But not sure how yet.

I am downloading and going to check out fretpet now and see how that works for my music.

Take care and thanks.

Glen

http://glensutton.com/studio for a look at my studios a few weeks ago. They are now combined in one room (the art studio) and have a few new additions, like the UD1212 and some other things.

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Well, it's been far too long since I posted a followup, but - well - I did create a serial Wacom driver. ADB support has proven very daunting, but I have an iMate and an ADB tablet to work with, and code samples for an ADB ThrustMaster driver. So ADB support could happen this year!

Meanwhile, for those interested in Wacom serial support find my latest driver here:

http://thinkyhead.com/tabletmagic/
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