Holy crap Batman! Magic Mouse and Keyboard on G4 iMac?

[torvan]

Okay, I was going though my massive parts tote, trying to find my 400 to 800 firewire cable I knew I had. I then ran across a D-Link DB-120 USB Bluetooth device. Thought "oh what the frak" and took it and the firewire cable over to my G4 1.25Ghz USB 2 iMac.

Damn if Leopard did not just load it up as if it was an Apple product. It found the Magic Mouse faster than High Sierra does with the Apple Bluetooth adapter (it is not uncommon in HS I have to use a USB mouse to tell Bluetooth Preferences there is a Magic Mouse that is trying to connect).

It works splendidly, automatically connects when the machine reboots right away (unlike HS) and wakes it from sleep too!

Now my only problem is I only have one Magic Mouse and Magic Keyboard!!!! I have to buy another one, and I have tapped out my free spending allowance for the month. Perhaps since my birthday is next week (and it is my 50th) I can convince my husband to let me buy that second set. . . .

 

[eyoungren]

I've been using a Magic Mouse with a Belkin USB BT 2.0 adapter for at least four years, maybe five. It's how I added BT 2.0 to a PowerMac G4 Quicksilver.

The adapter is actually better than the real thing in my Quad so I continue to use it.

Make sure you install the Wireless Mouse update: https://support.apple.com/kb/dl951?locale=en_US

 

[CooperBox]

I agree that these D-Link DBT-120 usb bluetooth adapters are excellent, but now not easy to find. I currently have two in use on G4 iMacs. Interesting associated link HERE.
I also have a Belkin unit in use as described by eyoungren.
The D-Link DBT-122 device appears a near identical unit to the D-Link DBT-120, and on another Mac forum I've read that it's Mac compatible. From my observations, for some unknown reason the D-Link DBT-122 is easier to find (price ranges from 6-15 euros, but to date I've never used one.

 

[torvan]

I've been using a Magic Mouse with a Belkin USB BT 2.0 adapter for at least four years, maybe five. It's how I added BT 2.0 to a PowerMac G4 Quicksilver.

The adapter is actually better than the real thing in my Quad so I continue to use it.

Make sure you install the Wireless Mouse update: https://support.apple.com/kb/dl951?locale=en_US

Thanks for the link!!!! It was working just fine for me without it, but then again an update might make to even better! As soon as I get the 1 GB RAM stick installed in the interior and new thermal paste and wrench it back down, I will grab that update!

I assume the wireless keyboard does not need an update given it is working flawlessly even using an Option Boot!

 

[eyoungren]

Thanks for the link!!!! It was working just fine for me without it, but then again an update might make to even better! As soon as I get the 1 GB RAM stick installed in the interior and new thermal paste and wrench it back down, I will grab that update!

I assume the wireless keyboard does not need an update given it is working flawlessly even using an Option Boot!

No idea about the keyboard, but I know that the update for the mouse gives you the animated version of the Mouse preference pane. It also enables a couple of the specific touch gestures that PowerPC Macs can interpret from the Magic Mouse.

I've been doing two finger scrolling from the back of my Magic Mouse for several years now.

EDIT: Once you've got all that taken care of you may want to take a look at this thread: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...ver-and…mouse-gestures.2052854/#post-24727433

It lets you use a much more expanded range of touch gestures on the Magic Mouse.

 

[torvan]

My version of the DBT 120 looks like this: Straight out of PC designs of the 90s and 2000s I know, but it is in the back and I don't have to see it every day.

I will look at the link later today. I do not really use all the multi-gestures-- just the scroll, right and left click functionality, at least not with the mouse. The Magic Trackpad however--that is gesture city!

 

[Anonymous Freak]

I still have a couple of the Mac-specific DBT-120M models. In lovely dark translucent blue (matches the very original Studio Display.) Its big benefit was that the Mac could talk to it during boot - so you could use a paired Bluetooth keyboard to hold down boot option buttons on a natively-Bluetooth-less Mac! Works fine on my first-gen iMac G4. A paired keyboard and mouse (paired in OS X) even work fine when booted in to Mac OS 9, which has no native Bluetooth support. (I only ever tried with the very first generation Apple Wireless Keyboard and Mouse in Mac OS 9.)