Please can anyone help?

I have some legacy software that runs on Windows 98 and uses a National
Instruments data acquisition card.



The card plugs into a PCMCIA slot and has appropriate drivers for Windows 98.

Does anyone know if this will work using Virtual PC?

Thanks.

There's no way to do that with VPC, it only emulates a certain set of
hardware and can't be expanded.

None of the virtualization solutions will work for this, you'll have
to run it on real hardware.

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Bob Comer



On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 01:50:03 -0800, Dazed and Confused <Dazed and
Confused@xxxxxx> wrote:

>Please can anyone help?
>
>I have some legacy software that runs on Windows 98 and uses a National
>Instruments data acquisition card.
>
>The card plugs into a PCMCIA slot and has appropriate drivers for Windows 98.
>
>Does anyone know if this will work using Virtual PC?
>
>Thanks.

"Dazed and Confused" <Dazed and Confused@xxxxxx> wrote in
message news:1CF36290-18D1-4F31-A39A-696D2D6585A4@xxxxxx

> I have some legacy software that runs on Windows 98 and uses a National
> Instruments data acquisition card.
>
> The card plugs into a PCMCIA slot and has appropriate drivers for Windows
> 98.
>
> Does anyone know if this will work using Virtual PC?

It won't, nor will it work with any other virtualisation software.

Virtual PC, VMWare / Virtual Box etc all emulate a specific set of hardware
which cannot be changed:
http://vpc.visualwin.com/ngfaq.aspx#8


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Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net