>>3300705They wrote the software both for Mac OS 9 and 98 originally. After they stopped selling scanners another company kept making the software for a while. The last release had support for some early Mac OS X release and Windows XP. People have to my knowledge been able to get it running on Windows 7 and newer systems.
The drivers are not really a problem. I can get a working driver from the original manufacturer for this ancient SCSI card I have.
The main issue are a couple of bugs and finding a dongle for the software. The license dongles are all for a specific version and operating system. I can't use my Mac OS dongle from Windows. I'm currently trying to patch the binary to skip the dongle checking step. After that I'm going to try working on fixing the few common bugs most users hit.
I'm a software developer my trade but working on such ancient binaries is quite tricky. I can only get good debug symbols from an early Mac OS 9 version so far. For the late Windows XP versions they have stripped all useful data like that from the binary.
Maybe my time would be better spent learning to do actual photography. I simply enjoy the development and scanning more so far.
