Few weeks back I purchased a serial port Art pad II from ebay for $17 USD. It was missing the power supply but it was a common power supply I found at the thrift store for 50 cents)
I have not tested it yet, but I bought it after researching what wacom tablets are supported by FormAldiHyd.lha which is freely available on Aminet.
According to that programs description it does support pressure sensitive features provided the Amiga program does (they list Art Effect as an example).
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FormAldiHyd V2.3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FormAldiHyd is a driver intended for the Aldi/Medion/Tevion MD 9310 graphic tablet and WacomIV compatible tablets (Graphire, ArtPad, A3, A4, A5 and PenPartner). Experimental support for SummaGraphics compatible and AceCad tablets has been added with this release but remains untested. This program has been out some time now and has proven to be stable. It fully works with: - AipTek HyperPen 6000 (maybe other boards aswell, still unconfirmed). - AipTek HyperPen 8000 - Aldi/Medion MD 9310 and Aldi/Tevion LT 9310 It works partly with: - Wacom IV compatible (Graphire, ArtPad, A3, A4, A5 and PenPartner) - SummaGraphics compatible boards (unconfirmed). - AceCad boards (unconfirmed) It does currently NOT work with: - Wacom V series (Intuos) (might be added on demand) Starting with V2.2 it finally works with MFC and IOBlix serial ports!
This is probably the only tablet driver that correctly works with all known (MUI) applications and at the same time has full pressure support. Some portions of the code have been ported from the xf86HyperPen.c source by Roland Jansen
lut.rwth-aachen.de> and Christian Herzog
dataway.ch>, who has taken over development of xf86HyperPen.c. The experimental WacomIV support has been ported from the xf86Wacom.c source by Frederic Lepied
sugix.frmug.org>. Short list of features: - Comes both as CLI-only/WB (no GUI) and MUI version. - Can be run either in 9600 or 19200 baud mode (HyperPen only).
- Supports pressure, which can be scaled to your requirements (e.g. with ArtEffect). - Versatile support of the functions keys at top of the tablet. - Can play sounds on button presses to make clicks audible. - Supports a threshold value for the left mouse button. - Middle and right mouse button can be swapped for stylus. - Mouse and Stylus can use different active areas. - Mouse can be used in relative mode. A mode for left handed people is also available. - Automatic detection of stylus and mouse. - Tablet orientation can be changed by swapping x and y coordinates. - Lots of different resolution can be chosen (up to 3048 LPI!). - Fully compatible with MUI applications. - Even works with low level software that reads the input events directly (Cinema4D, MagicMenu, etc.) Usage ~~~~~ There are two different programs for you to choose: FormAldiHyd - tablet driver with MUI interface (interactive) Formalin - CLI only/Workbench version (argument/ToolTypes driven) Please send me an email if you use this program. Thanks to those who have done so already.
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It seems like it would be hard to beat a $17 dollar price point if it works as described.
ugh. Sorry for being lazy and scaling down the tablet picture and hosting it.
Uggh part 2: I couldn't stand it, I scaled it down.
