The iMate was an awesome little creature. I used it successfully and happily
on an iMac/233 (Rev A) with a Kensington TurboMouse ADB trackball.
I used it with the version of Mouseworks that was current in the
spring/summer 2000 and with OS 9.0.4. The iMate emulates an ADB port (7 ADB
devices?).
As for iMate you'll want to check out
<http://www.griffintechnology.com/imate/index.html> for further details.
"iMate Driver OS X Driver
Beta release of the iMate driver. This version only provides support for
native OS X drivers. Currently these include the Apple built in mouse and
keyboard driver and the Kensington Mouseworks driver for OS X.
The Mac OS also has drivers for ADB displays and AV controls such as the
volume controls on the Apple Adjustable Keyboard. However these are not yet
enabled in OS X and cannot be used with either the iMate or with built in
ADB (B&W G3s).
The iMate OS X driver does not currently work with OS 9 ADB drivers or OS 9
applications that communicate with ADB devices like hardware protection
dongles. Support for this functionality may be added in future releases."
[Eric's comment... of course, the last paragraph is rather pointless as I
don't think the B&W G3 can do that from Classic mode either. There comes a
time when it's time to leave old software behind!!!]
BTW MouseWorks 1.0 for OS X is still pretty limited in scope. You cannot do
command-w type commands (no closing windows with a click of the superfluous
buttons :(, no support for different app sets yet :( :( :(, but you can
command-click (to scroll Internet Explorer, or open a new window in
OmniWeb/iCab/Explorer/Netscape), or command-option-click to scroll a finder
window.
BTW #2 The iMate even works in OS 8/9 *without* the iMate driver software.
Mice and keyboards are treated by the computer as if they were USB devices
but, they are generic devices. Keyboards will only support those features
that are common on all Apple extended keyboards (power, home, end, keypad,
F-key 1-15, etc.) and mice (even trackballs) are one-button mice. I don't
know (but I suspect it would as you can use the "power" key on a keyboard to
turn on the computer) if it works seamlessly with OS X in the same manner
(in case the software gets disabled or you have to disable the software).
Eric.
on 6/9/01 5:39, jake williamson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> i have a ADB kensington turbo mouse that i used to use with my old 6500.
>
> the 6500 has been replace by a g4 (whoop!) and rather than splashing our
> another �70-100 on a new trackball i was thinking along the lines of using a
> griffin iMate ADB to USB converter.
>
> does anyone have experience of these? i'm trying to figure out how the mac
> will react to having the MouseWorks software installed - do i use the USB or
> ADB version of the software?
>
> also, will i be able to use this set up in osX?
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