GTCO ADB Features User Manual

ADB Features Station and UltraSlate Products

ADB unit powers up as a mouse and the driver switches to tablet mode when “talk r2” is
received (units released before 7/1/98 switch on” talk r1”). Inc run at 1000 lpi with

extended data enabled.

ADB Formats

The unit powers up as both a mouse and tablet. Only one of the two devices is active at
any one time. The mouse is the default. To change over to the tablet, you must issue a
(talk reg 1 pre July 98 firmware) and reg 2 (July 98 firmware) to address four or the current
tablet address.

ADDRESS 3 REG 0 MOUSE FORMAT

ADDRESS 4 REG 0 TABLET FORMAT

Pn = Pressure Bits
Tn = Tilt Bits
Bn = Button Bits (16 button)
BD = Buttons Down

Note at 1000 lpi.
Prox 1 = out 0 = in

100 = Unknown else reserved height data
when byte 5
0XXXXXX1
Tilt = 0XXXXXX0

Transducer Type 000 = Pressure Pen 001 =
Mouse 011 16 Button Cursor

PENS OR MOUSE 4 BUTTON CURSOR

0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 1

0 0 0 0
0 0 0 1
0 0 1 0
0 0 1 1
0 1 0 0
0 1 0 1
0 1 1 0
0 1 1 1
1 X X X
0 0 0 0

PEN
reserved
4 button cursor (tbd)
16 BUTTON CURSOR
UNKNOWN
click tip pen
4 button cursor square buttons IBM style
5 button mouse
RESERVED
REREAD SIZE INFORMATION (NOT ON THIS
PRODUCT, BUT IF ADB/RS-232 BOX)
OTHER CODES RESERVED

5 BUTTON MOUSE BUTTON CURSOR TBD

SPECIAL DATA FIELD

type = 1 is UltraSlate
type = 2 is ADB box
type = 3 creation station
type = 4 creation station pro, design station pro
SUB TYPE 0 = 4 x 5
SUB TYPE 1 = 6 x 9
SUB TYPE 2 = 12 x 12
SUB TYPE 3 = 12 x 18

INTERFACE: ADB (APPLE DESKTOP BUS)
BUS ADDRESS: 04
HANDLER ID: 64 (40 HEX)
OPERATING MODE: RUN INCREMENT
IE: On change in data by two count or change in
button state, a service request is generated; a data
pair will be available on the next read.

Talk r2
msb
byte 1
byte 2
byte 3
byte 4
byte 5
byte 6
byte 7
byte 8

lsb
0 1 x x x y y y
0 1 x x x y y y
0 1 x x x y y y
0 1 x x x y y y
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

offset
mouse
cursor
pen
reserved
reserved
reserved
reserved

REGISTER 01 OUTPUT