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Re: ADB-USB Wombat Input Converter, $49 - raz - 06-20-2019
Forrest wrote:
From the Wombat comments:
'A digitizing pad probably won’t work, sorry. The Wombat can translate standard mouse and keyboard events from ADB to USB, but doesn’t know about other devices like tablets, joysticks, dongles, etc.'
Odd.. The iMate handled joysticks. In fact, I got mine on Ebay by buying an ADB joystick with the iMate attached. $15 when the iMates themselves were going for $50+.
I was tempted to tell the seller to toss the joystick and just mail the iMate, but ...
Re: ADB-USB Wombat Input Converter, $49 - C(-)ris - 06-21-2019
Nice. Wish they would have put 2 USB ports on it. Having to attach a hub to get a keyboard and mouse isn't an elegant solution.
Re: ADB-USB Wombat Input Converter, $49 - Winston - 06-21-2019
Glad to see someone doing this.
Forrest wrote:
The Giffin Technology iMate let you connect an ADB device to a USB computer. The iMate has been out of production for awhile.
https://github.com/tmk/tmk_keyboard will let you connect an ADB keyboard to a USB computer with a Teensy or Arduino
The ADB-USB Wombat is bidirectional - ADB to USB or USB to ADB
We've been using the Apple Extended II keyboard from one of our Beige G3s on my wifes iMac for several years with either an iMate or a clone of one.
Good luck.
- Winston