Hello all--
Since I didn't get much response on the G-List, I'll try you folks. They're interested in filling cracks (gasp!) on their Blue & White Macs, and I think "black and white" when I see it written as B&W. With that allusion to my photographic bent, I shall attempt to lay out my woes.
I recently acquired both a beige G3 (desktop, 266) and a Nikon LS-20 (aka Coolscan II) negative scanner and am now attempting to get them to work together. Nikon's scanning software is compatible with OS 7.x and earlier; the G3 is compatible with 8.0 and later. I would be content with a dual-boot system, so long as I can use the scanner in one configuration and everything else in the other.
1) Is there a usual suspect in OS 7/8 or G3/OS 7 incompatibilities? a) Is there some hack to boot the G3 into, say, OS 7.6.1? b) Is there some hack I can perform to get this software to run in OS 8.x? It's only requirement is that Quicktime be installed.
The short answer is no this is not going to work. Each rev of the OS introduced drivers for new hardware. OS 7.6.1 was slow and somewhat buggy on hardware it was suppose to run on and I doubt it can deal with the revised hardware in the B&W G3.
2) Does anyone know of third-party scanning software that I can actually use with this scanner? I've tried SilverFast (it does the same as Nikon Scan) and VueScan (which won't run on OS 8.6). There's rumour of an older version of VueScan, but I couldn't find it.
Did you check Nikon's site to see what software updates they have available? I peeked and found <http://support.nikontech.com/cgi-bin/nikonusa.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=RV6XoSah&p_lva=&p_faqid=202&p_created=1029938628&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9NCZwX3Byb2RfbHZsMT0yNSZwX3Byb2RfbHZsMj0zMiZwX2NhdF9sdmwxPTIyJnBfcGFnZT0x&p_li=> that they do have software to d/l for the LS-20.
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