Apple Silicon, Rosetta & reverse engineered/clean room drivers

[joaofrgomes]

Hi!

I've been happily using your fixed drivers for years but, as someone who's been through an ISA transition on the Mac before, I know fully well Apple wants to deprecate Rosetta 2 ASAP and when (not if) they do so, even your fixed drivers will cease to work altogether with all Apple Silicon-based systems.

It will, then, not be feasible for us to just stay on older versions of macOS for long just for Rosetta 2 and Intel binary+driver compatibility, or even to boot into VMs just to use a tablet; as such, is there any chance you or some other elite developer (or team of developers, even if the end product is commercial in nature, which would still make financial sense as brand new Intuos tablets are expensive as hell) might be able to reverse-engineer Wacom's drivers and come up with new, Apple Silicon/Universal ones that might keep our tablets working until their natural deaths?

All the best and, once again, kudos for your great work!

[thenickdude]

There's a project OpenTabletDriver which does this, but they don't have pen pressure support on macOS yet.

[Bottacco]

While the OpenTablet is still only available in binary form for macOS x64 (you may try to compile it natively on Mx machines, but I have not been able to do it, too many errors that I cannot understand how to solve) it is a user mode driver, so it may work via Rosetta 2.
Lets hope that native ARM support comes soon.