Win 98 compatability mode for Win 7?

[Declan Halpin]

Hi all,

I have an ANCIENT LMI SE225C that requires Win 98 to run it's driver. Obviously, that is pretty agonizing . It means we have to use Rhino 3, which has limited capabilities.

We are getting a new machine to run another CNC machine and I was wondering if we could run a printer driver in Win98 compatability mode? Anyone ever try anything like this?

tx,

dh

[Joe De Medeiros]

As far as I know you can't use a window 98 driver on windows 7, Windows 7 has an XP compatibility mode.

[Jerome Stanek]

Even that doesn't always work. You may have to run something like VMware and load win98 on it.

[paul cottingham]

my vote is for vmware as well. Or buy a beater, and install 98 on it and isolate it from your other machines. This is the path I would follow.

[Declan Halpin]

We have a 98 machine running the laser now, but lots of issues with that. No USB supp

[paul cottingham]

we got usb to work with win98 using an addin card fairly easily. find one that still supports legacy drivers.

[Declan Halpin]

... Sorry - stupid phone...

No USB support, no decent security, agonizing speed, but mainly, we can't use Rhino 4.

So does win XP or 2000 let you run driver in 98 comp. mode?

[Darius Ferlas]

VMware is great but it needs to be checked whether the external equipment connectivity will work.
Out of the box some USB devices will work, some won't. All devices will work with Horizon View but it ain't free, nor even cheap.

VirtualBox (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Guest_OSes) if free and it might work if the hardware can be run under WinNT.

Considering the hassle I would follow Paul's suggestion - an old, dedicated machine.

[Darius Ferlas]

So does win XP or 2000 let you run driver in 98 comp. mode?
Yes, but there are gotchas (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/292533?wa=wsignin1.0).