ADB Support Effort Abandoned? - Fire_Angel

No, it's an ADB device, and it doesn't show up as a USB device. In fact in the system profiler it doesn't show up at all, only its driver in the extensions list.

The Blue-and-White G3 (which is what I am using) was the last Apple tower system to have an ADB port, though it shipped with a USB keyboard and mouse. I use an older Apple Design II keyboard because it is a lot better than any of the current crop of Apple keyboards. It works fine and so do old Apple ADB mice, though I use a Logitech USB mouse for the extra buttons and the scrollwheel.

Since my original comment I have discovered that Apple never implemented proper drivers for high-rate ADB devices under OS-X, only keyboards, mice and a few small control devices. This means that in order to get ADB tablets working the author of TabletMagic would almost certainly have to write his own ADB driver from scratch, which is a lot of extra work, quite aside from the fact that getting the documentation would be near impossible. Apple never encouraged people to write ADB drivers, they expected everyone to use theirs, to save problems with the various ADB chipset revisions. So yes, if you blame anyone blame Apple, not Wacom or ThinkyHead.

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Thursday, July 13 2006 @ 04:25 PM PDT

ADB Support Effort Abandoned? - Fire_Angel

No, it's an ADB device, and it doesn't show up as a USB device. In fact in the system profiler it doesn't show up at all, only its driver in the extensions list.

The Blue-and-White G3 (which is what I am using) was the last Apple tower system to have an ADB port, though it shipped with a USB keyboard and mouse. I use an older Apple Design II keyboard because it is a lot better than any of the current crop of Apple keyboards. It works fine and so do old Apple ADB mice, though I use a Logitech USB mouse for the extra buttons and the scrollwheel.

Since my original comment I have discovered that Apple never implemented proper drivers for high-rate ADB devices under OS-X, only keyboards, mice and a few small control devices. This means that in order to get ADB tablets working the author of TabletMagic would almost certainly have to write his own ADB driver from scratch, which is a lot of extra work, quite aside from the fact that getting the documentation would be near impossible. Apple never encouraged people to write ADB drivers, they expected everyone to use theirs, to save problems with the various ADB chipset revisions. So yes, if you blame anyone blame Apple, not Wacom or ThinkyHead.

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Thursday, July 13 2006 @ 04:30 PM PDT

ADB Support Effort Abandoned? - Fire_Angel

No, it's an ADB device, and it doesn't show up as a USB device. In fact in the system profiler it doesn't show up at all, only its driver in the extensions list.

The Blue-and-White G3 (which is what I am using) was the last Apple tower system to have an ADB port, though it shipped with a USB keyboard and mouse. I use an older Apple Design II keyboard because it is a lot better than any of the current crop of Apple keyboards. It works fine and so do old Apple ADB mice, though I use a Logitech USB mouse for the extra buttons and the scrollwheel.

Since my original comment I have discovered that Apple never implemented proper drivers for high-rate ADB devices under OS-X, only keyboards, mice and a few small control devices. This means that in order to get ADB tablets working the author of TabletMagic would almost certainly have to write his own ADB driver from scratch, which is a lot of extra work, quite aside from the fact that getting the documentation would be near impossible. Apple never encouraged people to write ADB drivers, they expected everyone to use theirs, to save problems with the various ADB chipset revisions. So yes, if you blame anyone blame Apple, not Wacom or ThinkyHead.

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Thursday, July 13 2006 @ 04:31 PM PDT

ADB Support Effort Abandoned? - Fire_Angel

No, it's an ADB device, and it doesn't show up as a USB device. In fact in the system profiler it doesn't show up at all, only its driver in the extensions list.

The Blue-and-White G3 (which is what I am using) was the last Apple tower system to have an ADB port, though it shipped with a USB keyboard and mouse. I use an older Apple Design II keyboard because it is a lot better than any of the current crop of Apple keyboards. It works fine and so do old Apple ADB mice, though I use a Logitech USB mouse for the extra buttons and the scrollwheel.

Since my original comment I have discovered that Apple never implemented proper drivers for high-rate ADB devices under OS-X, only keyboards, mice and a few small control devices. This means that in order to get ADB tablets working the author of TabletMagic would almost certainly have to write his own ADB driver from scratch, which is a lot of extra work, quite aside from the fact that getting the documentation would be near impossible. Apple never encouraged people to write ADB drivers, they expected everyone to use theirs, to save problems with the various ADB chipset revisions. So yes, if you blame anyone blame Apple, not Wacom or ThinkyHead.

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Thursday, July 13 2006 @ 04:33 PM PDT

ADB Support Effort Abandoned? - Fire_Angel

No, my keyboard is an ADB device, and it doesn't show up as a USB device. In fact in the system profiler it doesn't show up at all, only its driver in the extensions list.

The Blue-and-White G3 (which is what I am using) was the last Apple tower system to have an ADB port, though it shipped with a USB keyboard and mouse. I use an older Apple Design II keyboard because it is a lot better than any of the current crop of Apple keyboards. It works fine and so do old Apple ADB mice, though I use a Logitech USB mouse for the extra buttons and the scrollwheel.

Since my original comment I have discovered that Apple never implemented proper drivers for high-rate ADB devices under OS-X, only keyboards, mice and a few small control devices. This means that in order to get ADB tablets working the author of TabletMagic would almost certainly have to write his own ADB driver from scratch, which is a lot of extra work, quite aside from the fact that getting the documentation would be near impossible. Apple never encouraged people to write ADB drivers, they expected everyone to use theirs, to save problems with the various ADB chipset revisions. So yes, if you blame anyone blame Apple, not Wacom or ThinkyHead.

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Thursday, July 13 2006 @ 04:38 PM PDT

ADB Support Effort Abandoned? - Fire_Angel

Sorry about the multiple posts, not sure if it was a bug in my browser or a bug in the Version Tracker php code, but one or the other.

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Thursday, July 13 2006 @ 04:44 PM PDT