Win98 driver in WinXP?

[Asp]

I have an old (ca 1997) writing/drawing pad that connects by a serial COM port.

Acts like a mouse with some extra features.

Worked fine in Win95/8, but WinXP can't see it.

The company has nothing on their site about it, no updated drivers, Googling finds only a few people like myself asking for new drivers.

The install files are is:

14/10/1997  11:07p			   1,076 PENMOUSE.INF
06/11/1997  02:06p			  13,824 INSTALL.EXE
06/11/1997  02:50p			  27,136 MOUSEPEN.EXE
13/11/1997  01:45p			   6,880 PENMOUSE.31
06/11/1997  02:44p			   2,976 PENMOUSE.DRV
08/03/1997  11:41a			  20,120 DMOUSE.COM
05/12/1997  04:50p			   8,812 PENMOUSE.VXD
12/03/1998  05:42p				 788 readme.txt
23/09/1997  10:34p			  19,456 REG.EXE

Some of these I think are for use in DOS.

I've attached these -- a 38k RAR file.

Running "Install" fails. Trying to use Windows Device Manager or Install New Hardware and pointing to the INF file gets a "No suitable files" message.

Could perhaps the INF file be hacked to make it acceptable, or is it a lost cause?

PENMOUSE.INF

; Extensive PenMouse Driver Setup

[Version]
Signature="$Windows 95$"
Class=Mouse
Provider=%MS%

[DestinationDirs]
DefaultDestDir = 11	  ; LDID_SYS
driverCopy	 = 11


[SourceDisksNames]
1=%DrvDisk%,,1

[SourceDisksFiles]
penmouse.vxd=1

[Manufacturer]
%MS%=PenMouseInstall

; Manufacturer Sections
; ----------------------------------------
[PenMouseInstall]
%SerEasy%=Sermou,SERENUM\QMT0001

; Install sections
; ----------------------------------------
[Sermou]
DelReg=DelReg
AddReg=CommonReg, SerialReg
CopyFiles=driverCopy
UpdateInis=driver.Ini

[DelReg]
HKR,,DevLoader
HKR,,MouseDriver
HKR,,MouseType
HKR,,Cominfo

[SerialReg]
HKR,,MouseType,,Serial

[CommonReg]
HKR,,DevLoader,,*vmouse
HKR,,MouseDriver,,penmouse.vxd
HKR,,NoSetupUI,,1

[driverCopy]
penmouse.vxd

[driver.Ini]
system.ini,386Enh,,"mouse=*vmouse"


; ----------------------------------------
; User-visible Strings

[Strings]
DrvDisk="PenMouse Driver Disk"
MS="Extensive"
Drv.Desc="QMT-2000 Mouse Tablet"
SerEasy="QMT-2000  Mouse Tablet"

qmt_win98.rar

Edited August 25, 2007 by Asp

[daka]

Hi -- I have the same device and have recently tried to install it and found that same situation you describe.

Kicking this thread, hoping someone who knows will see it!

[jaclaz]

I don't think you will ever find a NT/2K/XP driver for that tablet, but maybe you could try another driver.

Those tablets used to have (on different brands) the same chip, so it is likely that a driver for another brand/model can be "forced" to work.

Since the driver is of the "MOUSE" type, it is possible that a similar device driver can be made to work.

All in all, I would say it is not worth the effort, but if you have time and will....

Also you can try this:

http://www.vtablet.com/index.htm

jaclaz

[Asp]

Also you can try this:

http://www.vtablet.com/index.htm

Looks interesting, but insane pricing at $65. That's twice what the original pad cost and four times what I could buy a new, XP supported, one for.

[jaclaz]

Yep, another maybe not-so-crazy-idea could be to use a VM like Qemu or VirtualBox running Win9x wth Serial redirected to you real COM port.

Of course only if you use the device for occasional graphical input...

jaclaz