HELP. DONGLE and CAMM1 series PLOTTER/CUTTER. Anyone?

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From: C. Ruesink.
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 08:06

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I am having a lot of trouble of upgrading an old win3.11 system to win2000.
Any help is apprectiated. (I will devide my question/questions up).
Remoove .nospamm too reeply.
Thankyou.      Craig.

SYSTEM.

Celeron 400 + 64MB ram
Roland Camm1 series plotter.
Rainbow tech. Dongle.

Win2000pro
Sign Wizard (R)  Plotting software   (cost ??   $2000 I think.)

The old system was a 486 wimn 3.11.   So i pulled out the HD and chucked it
into my WIN2000 Box.

Question 1.  "How can i get 16bit software running stable under WIN2000?"

The plotter runs off parallel LPT1 port.

The Sign Wizard uses INTERNAL drivers.  I think this is maybe becasue of the
DONGLE which must also be connected to LPT1 for the program to even load.
The plotter will do only one "session"   (print execute)  then the computer
crashes and even ctr+alt+del and restart/close will not work.   Gives error
"Cannot terminate program.  Your 16bit subsytem may become unstable"  This
is correct as it will not pork the LPT1 at all.

Can I run a 16bit shell?  That will work with the virtual drivers for the
program?

The old win3.11 had NO Roland plotter drivers installed.  So I have NOT
installed any for WIN2000.
My next step is to set up a NEW PRINTER and install WINNT/2000 drivers for
it.  I think maybe WIN2000 will not use LPT1 properly with the 16bit drivers
the program uses.

Is there a work around for the DONGLE?
How do these things work?
Is the software written specifically for the selected DONGLE?

Ta.  Big ask I know.  All help recieved gratefully.
mailto:spannerzwatson.nospamm@hotmail.com
~Craig~

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