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Wacom Tablet question. Mac ---> PC?
Has anyone ever successfully got a wacom tablet (pre- Intuos) built for Mac(apple serial connector) to work on a PC? If yes, How did you do it?
Please no lame answers. If you've never tried please refraine from answering.
4 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Have to concur on this one - you'd be lucky to get even a PC-specific tablet of this age to work on XP, let alone a Mac one. Much less stress to update . even have a look on Ebay, (as they age well) if money is an issue
- 1 decade ago
Unless you enjoy the challenge I concur with the above posts.
Or as a learning experience... go for it! Reverse engineering seems to have interested you.
Your problem is to match compatibility. This involves both speed of transmission and protocol of communication. Simply put you need
a 'patch' either hardware and/or software(OR BOTH).
Realistically you hope to find a driver(software) designed to do this for your specific device(manufacturer, model, sometimes even down to serial number) that is available for your type pc and its OS(operating system- software which contains drivers for many things)...
Not readily available as you have found. HOWEVER with an older(cheap) pc(say WIN98 with only USB 1.0 capability) you may find a driver for your device which works for this OS.
Now you can use the file transferred onto that machine to move to your XP machine(if not exclusively setup for NTFS(new technology file system).
Or buy something new... there may not be specific driver available BUT check out old forums and the usual sources and you may get lucky... GOOD LUCK and happy tweaking.
- 1 decade ago
No, and not just because getting the adapter to work correctly is a pain, but also because finding drivers that actually work is... well... impossible.
I'm sure there's probably SOMETHING out there, but for the effort it would take to do it, I would just say buy a new one that's USB.
And trust me, I've used both Mac and Windows since the internet was nothing but BBS.
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