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Re: Buying or making graphics tablet
« on: October 29, 2015, 03:49:40 PM »
I wrote the driver for the Amiga for the Tabby graphics tablet - I'll resurrect what I can find and post it here :)
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Re: Buying or making graphics tablet
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2015, 09:57:33 PM »
Here we go then, driver and short story here http://www.binarydevotion.com/?p=213

If I remember rightly it was quite a CPU hog so play with the priority as appropriate.  Try the different modes too, as the tablet is quite jittery so I tried to model the effect of the pointer being attracted to the tablet coordinates by a spring (high initial acceleration getting slower), "gravity" (the tablet coordinates were "downhill" and the pointer would roll towards them) and filtered.  I think.  Need to reinstall my Amiga to check all this :)

I should probably rewrite this with better knowledge...  but this works.
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Re: Buying or making graphics tablet
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2015, 09:58:53 PM »
And I'll put this onto Aminet, too :D - have reached out to the aminet admins as this includes commodore "installer", which Micrograf received a license to distribute but I'm not sure whether can be included on Aminet...
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Re: Buying or making graphics tablet
« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2015, 12:31:05 PM »
Good luck :D
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