I finally found a driver the works for my WACOM tablet that was probably given to me over 23 years ago!

There hasn’t been an official driver available for the legacy Wacom Intuos1 GD-0912-U tablet since… well since ever? I couldn’t even find a picture of one – let alone a driver. I remember I did try quite hard at the time to find a driver for my mac but I couldn’t ever get anything to work. Maybe it worked for a few months on os9 – but not for long that’s for sure. I was only ever one upgrade away from it being unsupported or so glitchy it wasn’t worth bothering with!

Well today I ran out of batteries for my mouse and I soon got pretty fed up trying to use my laptop trackpad – then I looked down at my feet and tucked away under my desk was the old 1919 WACOM. I always believed that one day I’d just be able to plug it in and it would just somehow magically start to work!

After a bit of a dig on the interweb I found a GitHub user named “thenickdude” who has fixed the drivers for older Wacom tablets, including the Intuos series which the GD-0912-U belongs to. Apparently these fixed drivers are designed to work on macOS Catalina, Big Sur, and Monterey, including M1 Macs. I can confirm they work for me using Sonoma 14.6.1 on a M1 laptop – with a usb convertor.

Unbelievable!  My Wacom is now officially my oldest peripheral that I can still plugin which actually works!

Get your Drivers here:

https://github.com/thenickdude/wacom-driver-fix

1. Visit the GitHub repository for the fixed drivers – and scroll paste all the code.
2. Find and download the “Fixed driver v6.3.15-3 for Intuos 3 and Cintiq tablets” installer.
3. Double-click the installer to run it.
4. If you get an error message about installing apps only from the App Store, right-click on the installer and select “Open” instead.
5. After installation, you may need to adjust your Mac’s security settings:
   • Go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy tab.
   • In both the “Accessibility” and “Input Monitoring” sections, remove any existing Wacom-related entries.
   • Add the newly installed driver to these sections.
6. Restart your computer.

I hope someone else finds this post and finds it useful – thanks thenickdude for fixing the legacy drivers and thanks to whoever it was that gave me their old WACOM – it was so long ago – I literally can’t remember – if it was you… please make yourself known!