windows xp x64??

DOUGIEBOY · Post by **DOUGIEBOY** » June 18th, 2005, 11:17 pm

hi could somebody tell me if there is anything i can do..i have windows xp 64 bit and i waz wandering how to get my lcd screen to work it says the port95 will not work without 64 bit device drivers ...any help plz!!!!!!!!!

Twizted · Post by **Twizted** » July 6th, 2005, 5:07 am

Oh snap!!! I am going to need to know this also.... I am about to install mine in my AMD64 Antec Aria case and well.. that just STINKS!!! Please!! Somebody..... Anybody!!!!!

whizz · Post by **whizz** » July 6th, 2005, 9:51 am

I don't think it will work, since you will need port95, and that doesn't seem to work on windows 64bit

Twizted · Post by **Twizted** » July 6th, 2005, 7:02 pm

Yes. But is anyone currently working on a 64Bit port of this port95 driver ?

Its the way things are going to HAVE to move with all the new 64Bit technology advancing on us!

shug · Post by **shug** » August 18th, 2005, 8:45 pm

same here need a 64 bit driver

Twizted · Post by **Twizted** » August 18th, 2005, 9:51 pm

Good luck...... I have looked high and low to no avail. and with the lack of reply to this thread I dont see it happening anytime soon......

shug · Post by **shug** » August 19th, 2005, 1:01 am

yup spent whole day looking but every bit of lcd software seems to need this porto dll

Twizted · Post by **Twizted** » August 19th, 2005, 2:07 am

All Parallel, I dont know about Serial... But if you went with a USB type display which I think Matrix Orbital sells then you would prolly be ok? I dunno... I wish someone with the knowledge would convert this up to 64bit... I dont think it would be hard for someone versed in the language.....

shug · Post by **shug** » August 19th, 2005, 12:18 pm

true but dont want to remove my lcd after moding it to fit in to my case to then buy a usb version.

Twizted · Post by **Twizted** » August 19th, 2005, 5:04 pm

Understandable...... I wonder if all this chatter will get someones attention to the thread and they may hook us up?... lol.... one can only hope.....

smoguzbenjamin · Post by **smoguzbenjamin** » August 21st, 2005, 1:14 pm

Bugger! I was gonna get XP64 too! Has anyone actually tried using the port95nt driver on xp64? Otherwise it's just gold ole XP for me, shame about the 64-bit patch for Far Cry though :p

smoguzbenjamin · Post by **smoguzbenjamin** » August 21st, 2005, 1:25 pm

Here, try this and tell me if it works, PLEASE

http://www.downloadjunction.com/product/software/82168/

Twizted · Post by **Twizted** » August 21st, 2005, 5:02 pm

Yeah....... It will give you a error basically stating its 32bit and not compatable or somehting like that... cause I did indeed try it....

**EDIT** Ohhhhhhhhh Interesting..... I will have to try that once I get back home where my 64 system is located.. this looks promising.....anyone else here willing to give it a go asap?

shug · Post by **shug** » August 22nd, 2005, 2:49 pm

Does it work I have no idea how to use it when I install it it does nothing and theres no front end to work with

smoguzbenjamin · Post by **smoguzbenjamin** » August 22nd, 2005, 10:50 pm

Hmm, no luck then. I'm out of ideas

As far as I know that doesn't replace port95nt drivers but more like adds lpt functionality to 64-bit systems. Maybe I'll try it if I can get my hands on an XP-64 CD for a sec

shug · Post by **shug** » August 26th, 2005, 9:14 pm

hmmm still no further forward here at all anyone had any luck

pietplezier · Post by **pietplezier** » September 22nd, 2005, 3:01 pm

Same for me guys, I need a 64-bit version of this port driver.

Has anyone got this working so far?

Thanks!

Luccie_007 · Post by **Luccie_007** » November 23rd, 2005, 7:45 pm

Hey

Thre hasn;t been a reply for a long time but is there going to be any support for X64? I mailed some guys i think the makers of the port95nt that we would love it when there would com out an X64 edition so lets wait right now. Or has anybody already found a solution?

naps1saps · Post by **naps1saps** » January 11th, 2006, 5:52 am

I have found something that might help.

Here is the forum where I found it:
http://forums.gideontech.com/index.php/ ... 0%203.html

Here is the download/information site:
http://www.highrez.co.uk/downloads/inpout32/

Someone converted inpout32 to inpoutx64. They say you need to tell the software to use this file instead of the port95 file. I would have looked at both Smartie's source and inpout's source, but I just realized that my Visual Studio 6.0 software is now very outdated! Can anyone look into this as a viable option and then distribute the new updated software/files to the rest of us who can't compile and build source?

asoap · Post by **asoap** » February 2nd, 2006, 5:14 am

My brother and I just built a home theater pc. The case he chose has a VFD on it, and it uses Smartie to display the info on it. That's how I found this site.

These are the instructions that were supplied with the case regarding the port. It uses the parallel port.

- download and save www.ahanix.com/download/mce.zip
- from mce.zip install parallelportdriver.exe

for winxp Media Center Edition:
- from mce.zip install dotnetfx.exe (MS .net frame work)
- from mce.zip install VFDdriverMCE.msi

for win98/2000/me/xp
- execute smatie.exe
- click on setup
- select LCE Setting to be PARALLEL PORT (HD44780). Leave the port number at it's default setting.

I'm not a programmer, but I hope that helps.

Philg · Post by **Philg** » March 4th, 2006, 1:15 pm

naps1saps wrote:I have found something that might help.

Here is the forum where I found it:
http://forums.gideontech.com/index.php/ ... 0%203.html

Here is the download/information site:
http://www.highrez.co.uk/downloads/inpout32/

Someone converted inpout32 to inpoutx64. They say you need to tell the software to use this file instead of the port95 file. I would have looked at both Smartie's source and inpout's source, but I just realized that my Visual Studio 6.0 software is now very outdated! Can anyone look into this as a viable option and then distribute the new updated software/files to the rest of us who can't compile and build source?

Hi, it was I that converted InpOut to x64.
I have recently done some more work, to make the DLL function compatible with DLPortIO (Port95) so LCD Smartie should just be able to use my DLL.

I havnt been able to test it because my dev machine does not have a parallel port....

Does LCD Smartie work with USB->Parallel converters (I dont suppose it does)????

Anyway, you can download the new version and test it for me if you want to - its on my website.
There are some basic instructions on how to run it with LCDSmartie on the web page and in the zip package.

Thanks,
Phil

Philg · Post by **Philg** » March 4th, 2006, 1:20 pm

asoap wrote:These are the instructions that were supplied with the case regarding the port. It uses the parallel port.

- download and save www.ahanix.com/download/mce.zip
- from mce.zip install parallelportdriver.exe

for winxp Media Center Edition:
- from mce.zip install dotnetfx.exe (MS .net frame work)
- from mce.zip install VFDdriverMCE.msi

for win98/2000/me/xp
- execute smatie.exe
- click on setup
- select LCE Setting to be PARALLEL PORT (HD44780). Leave the port number at it's default setting.

I'm not a programmer, but I hope that helps.

Urm, since when has MCE been 64bit?
I think the problem is that the parallelportdriver you talk of will only run on 32bit OS's like MCE, XP, 2000, 2003 - NOT on x64bit OS's like XP-x64 and 2003-x64.

Im trying to solve that by re-writing a compatible 64bit driver to replace the parallelportdriver you mention.

Thanks,
Phil

naps1saps · Post by **naps1saps** » March 4th, 2006, 1:53 pm

Yeah, I'll have to try that. I'm pretty buisy right now being the end of the quarter and all, so I'll have to try it out later. Maybe next week, Wed this week at the soonest.

Thanks for working on it. I can't wait to try it.

ReverseEngineered · Post by **ReverseEngineered** » March 4th, 2006, 5:16 pm

Our latest beta now uses your inpout32.dll driver so that we can support 64-bit. I should be posting the beta version within the next couple of days (once we make sure there are no blatant errors still).

USB->Parallel converters "should" work. I say this because I haven't tested it, and I'm making some assumptions about how they work. If they just show up as a parallel port, then you can select that port in the output plugin and it will "just work". Otherwise, we may have to make some modifications to allow for that. I'm quite interested in testing that and making changes as necessary.

Luccie_007 · Post by **Luccie_007** » March 12th, 2006, 10:59 am

I always get an error that says "Failed To Open device: Acces violation at adress: XXXXXXXX. Write of adress: XXXXXXXX"

I use version 3.2.17 abd have done what is in th readme renamed the DLL in win32 and placed in to the LCD Smartie map.

LCD Smartie

windows xp x64??

windows xp x64??

Yeah...I need the 64x version!

inpout32.dll/inpoutx64.dll a possible solution??

I'm using an amd 64

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