Hey, two things for you. First on Read Iris, I had a chat with them
regarding the issue of the scanner driver interface coming up, they
said that is a function of the scanner manufacturer's software and
there's nothing that can be done, but the scanner does have to be
twain complient. I spoke to Epson and they informed me that this is
how all the scanners behave. I then spoke to HP and was told that
only scanners like the 5590 and higher-end stuff behaves by not
bringing up an interface and that scanner is $299. Not sure I want to
spend $299 on a scanner at this point so guess I'll have to live with
it. Also the Iris site when you order the pkg is a real drag to work
with and I was forced to use ie on the windows platform. Hey they US
rep agreed the site sucked at least. I did get it for $59 instead of
$129 so I do not know if this was some special or anyone who tries it
gets the special deal, but that deal came to me in an e-mail.
Now on Virtual PC. Well installing it wasn't to bad, but man its
pretty painful when setting up xp, I had to get sighted assistance
because the windows don't seem to speak really at all. I can say the
menus in the program are accessible enough, but I haven't found a way
to really know what's going on with the screen. I tried all teh VO
tricks I know so maybe you'll have better luck, but thought you would
want heads-up on this. I'll report any success once xp is installed.
Of course I can't say what will happen since I had xp on another box
before it died so I don't know if the key will still be good on this
install, we'll see. grin
Scott
On Jan 13, 2006, at 7:14 PM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
Hi
That's cool, you'll probably get to test it before I do unless
amazon ships my cd exceptionally fast or something. I got the
version without xp also, since I've already got XP and I see no
reason to buy another copy. The performance probably won't be too
hot but that's the way emulators are, especially since it has to
translate Intel instructions into PPC and back again, at least for
now--what the Intel switch will bring on this front, I have no idea.
