Aoresteen
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I ended up needing to run Win98 for my MOTU parallel port MIDI Express PC Notebook MIDI router. At first I used a Toshiba Libretto 70CT but I have now configured my Compaq Evo N600c laptop to boot DOS, Win98 SE, and Win XP SP3. It took awhile traking down all my old Win98 CD's & tools but I managed to stumble through it. The 866 MHz P3 Evo laptop has a gig of RAM and a 120 GB hard drive. I created three partitions (DOS gets 2 gigs FAT, Win98 gets 12 GB FAT32, and XP gets the rest - 106 GB NTFS.)
I also needed Win 98 to run Alesis Sound Bridge so that I can program flash cards for my QSR synth. So I figured I'd load a copy of Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 to have when I am booted in Win98 and need to play a MIDI file. It took me a couple of days to track down the CDs and the CD key info but I managed to stumble through it. When I was done I recalled that I needed to load some Pro Audio 9 patches. After a bit of searching I found them on Cakewalk's site and now I am running Pro Audio 9.03 under Win 98 SE.
Win XP is used for Sonar 4.0.4 PE and all my other apps on the laptop.
I could have avoided using Win98 by buying new gear from MOTU that works with Win XP and getting a new synth but there is nothing wrong with the the gear I have. It's just alergic to Windows XP.
Anyone else dual booting Win98 & Win XP to keep some 'legacy' equipment working?
Tony
I also needed Win 98 to run Alesis Sound Bridge so that I can program flash cards for my QSR synth. So I figured I'd load a copy of Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 to have when I am booted in Win98 and need to play a MIDI file. It took me a couple of days to track down the CDs and the CD key info but I managed to stumble through it. When I was done I recalled that I needed to load some Pro Audio 9 patches. After a bit of searching I found them on Cakewalk's site and now I am running Pro Audio 9.03 under Win 98 SE.
Win XP is used for Sonar 4.0.4 PE and all my other apps on the laptop.
I could have avoided using Win98 by buying new gear from MOTU that works with Win XP and getting a new synth but there is nothing wrong with the the gear I have. It's just alergic to Windows XP.
Anyone else dual booting Win98 & Win XP to keep some 'legacy' equipment working?
Tony