And a year later...
Is it a tank? Is it a mouse? No, it's the wireless tank mouse!
First impressions:
It comes in a nice little box. No manual, but the underside of the mouse tells you what you need to know.
It is a very good replica of the original tank mouse, except for some obvious stuff such as the lack of 30 years of yellowing, no cable, and everything on the underside is different. Other than that it's just the buttons that are a bit smaller with more space between them, which is the scroll sensitive area.
On my Mac I don't like the scrolling, though, it's way too jittery: pages fly up and down with reckless abandon. And on the Amiga with my mouSTer USB to Amiga mouse adapter I'm 99.9% sure it's not supported. Perhaps it is with the extra stretch goal USB adapter.
It takes two AAA batteries (not included) and the battery compartment also provides storage for the wireless USB dongle (included).
The mouse slides around on four small plasticky feet that look like they won't wear out too quickly. There are two buttons on the underside of the mouse: one that slides between bluetooth / off / 2.4 GHz wireless (Apple Wi-Fi icon) and a push button that starts bluetooth pairing.
A nice touch is that in 2.4 GHz mode (using the dongle) the mode LED and the optical tracking LED are green, in bluetooth mode... wait for it... blue.
In both modes I had no trouble using the mouse on my black wooden desk. You can easily switch between the two modes (and thus two computers) using the mode selector switch.
The tracking/resolution is a bit slower/lower than my Logitech Anywhere MX 2 mice and similar to that of the original tank mouse. The mouSTer USB adapter lets me adjust this so no problem here.
I was happy to find the mouSTer as two previous USB to Amiga mouse adapters didn't work with the Logitech wireless adapter. And the one I still have lying around, the Ryś MKII, also doesn't work with the tank mouse USB wireless adapter, even though working very well with USB mice and the tank mouse adapter only needs 50 mA.
The tank mouse works with the A500 Mini using the 2.4 GHz adapter without any issues, and it's definitely nicer than the wired tank mouse replica that comes with the A500 Mini.