Graphics tablets on the Amiga

[dandelion]

I'm starting to get fed up with grappling with the mouse for graphics work. It's time I bought a graphics tablet!

The problem is

A) I don't have much money
B) Have no idea which units are compatible with my a4000, whether you have to pay extra for drivers, whether I can just buy a cheap tablet of EBay and it will work - etc. etc.

Any information (or better still, someone in the UK willing to sell me one!) greatly appreciated!

[ritty]

 Wacom  graphic tablets with a cordless stylus is  a great tool for the amiga .. I use the 12"x12" on a 3000 and a 4000 ...If you do graphics ..it's a must ... and if you have RTG board  your in professional circle ... For a driver I just phoned Wacom ... they sent me one free ...but I'm sure they are available from 3rd parties also...            

[Controller]

You have to pay extra for drivers unless you can find some as freware on Aminet.

If I was you I would go to Hauge & Partner's homepage. As far as I remember, they have made amiga-drivers to graphics tablet.

Happy hunt

Tommy

[dandelion]

So if I bought a serial Wacom graphics tablet it should work with my Amiga, either with a freeware driver (I think there's one on Aminet) or by forking out for the Haage and Partner one?

[Wain]

Do be aware regardless of this that every graphics tablet manufactutrer pretty much uses their own proprietary protocol.  

There is one old standard (MM-1201)., but it's not really used much anymore, so you'll want to make sure that whatever drivers you can get ahold of specifically say which tablet models they support.

WACOM (pronounced Wah-kum, not WAY-KOM) tablets are generally considered the best by most users.

[gnarly]

dandelion wrote:
So if I bought a serial Wacom graphics tablet it should work with my Amiga, either with a freeware driver (I think there's one on Aminet) or by forking out for the Haage and Partner one?

Should do. I dont know if any of the drivers support USB though so it'd have to be a serial port one.

[edit]But then you already said that (the serial port thing)...

[ritty]

@dandelion
 If you have poor luck finding a driver for a  wacom tablet, as a last resort , there is or was a fellow named 'jeff' at wacom.... who on 2 occasins sent me a driver at no cost.. it always nice to have a friend at wacom if you like tablets.. I think you can just download it .

[Wain]

The 'drivers and installation' section of the Amiga hardware bible has an ftp link to WACOM drivers.

[DonnyEMU]

I wonder if the folks providing Amiga drivers and support for graphics tablets are stil around. They used to be R & D L Productions (aka Rose and Dave Lovell) (my spelling might be off on their name..

[DonnyEMU]

Hey they still are around (not sure they are in the amiga biz still) but here it is anyway:

R&DL Productions, Inc. - 40 Liss Road, Wappingers Falls NY 12590
phone: (845) 298-8968
contact: Rose Lovell
description: Prepackaged Software

[Wain]

Jeff over at WACOM's a great guy, (last I knew)he's one of their developers.  Company I used to work for had a product that worked in conjunction with WACOM tablets, and we did a lot of shared work together.

[stefcep]

there is a driver on aminet called formaldihyd.  its a free wacom driver and it actually works smoother than the Haage and Partner tableau driver.  I know because I payed for tableau and regretted it. formaldihyd is actually two versions , the other is called formalin and i find this works better on an artpad II and a penpartner

[1337DOG]

I realize this is an old thread, but, does anyone have contact info for "Jeff" at wacom? Or a link to these "official" or "unnofficia-offisual" wacom drivers for Amiga. I never even knew they ever released any. The Amiga Hardware Bible doesn't seem to be any help at the moment.

Fascinating stuff.

Also if anyone has some experience and doesn't mind sharing, I'd love to know what it's like using a wacom on Amiga from the perspective of someone who used to have an Amiga in his youth but, has only experienced Wacom tablets on Mac and PCs.

TIA!

[magnetic]

there is a driver on aminet called formaldihyd.  its a free wacom driver and it actually works smoother than the Haage and Partner tableau driver.  I know because I payed for tableau and regretted it. formaldihyd is actually two versions , the other is called formalin and i find this works better on an artpad II and a penpartner

hi. Does anyone have this Haage and partner tablet software? I'd like to try it. Im checking outt he aminet driver now. Anyone can help me with the H+P tablet software please let me know its for an art project

[stefcep2]

hi. Does anyone have this Haage and partner tablet software? I'd like to try it. Im checking outt he aminet driver now. Anyone can help me with the H+P tablet software please let me know its for an art project

yeah I have it.

PM if you want an ADF of the H+P software.

Its rubbish-use formaldihyd instead http://aminet.net/package/driver/input/FormAldiHyd

Inside there are two drivers: formalin and formaldihyd.  Formalin doesn't crash on my Wacom Penpartner but doesn't have GUI.  Formaldihyde does, both.

Formalin has to be configured using icon tool types (click on formalin icon once->RMB->icon->information.

My settings use a high speed serial port: QUIET, baud 38400, ISWACOM, LPI=1000 PRI=20 NOPRESCLIP, LMBTHRES=1, PMIN=5, PMAX=40.  The rest I leave bracketed.