I'm in a similar situation with my Minolta Multi Pro as Firewire is not supported by Virtualbox. My old G5 PowerMac no longer boots so I bought a cheap Firewire card for my old Windows ME machine (the G5's predecessor, built circa 2001). Works nicely and I use sneakernet to transfer the files.
FWIW I tried Vuescan on my current Mac and wasn't able to coax usable results out of it. I ended up with wonky colour casts that I wasn't able to correct. The Minolta software is very good but it predates Intel Macs. I just love progress. I don't think there are any virtualisation systems that will handle a Firewire scanner (let me know if you find one), so if your XP machine dies you may have to scrounge parts to build another one. Cheers, Dave > On Jan 29, 2016, at 11:42 AM, Mark C <[email protected]> wrote: > > I might give this a try - I have retained an XP box to run my scanner (Nikon > LS8000) in part because it has firewire and in part to run Nikon scan. I was > hoping to shift over to Ubuntu and VueScan but VueScan's support for medium > format scanning on the LS8000 is not very good. The scanner and NIkon scan > are rather finicky even running under native XP, but is the XP machine I'm > using ever dies I may try emulating WInXP. > > On 1/28/2016 3:33 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 2:02 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >>> P.J. Alling wrote: >>>> <Rant> >>> Depending on how often you need to use the software that only runs on XP, >>> your best solution may be to set up a Win XP virtual machine. That way if >>> you get an update the breaks everything, you can go to a previously backed >>> up version of the VM. You could also, if you want, copy that VM to other >>> computers, even a Mac or a Linux box. >> Full endorsement of this! >> >> I have VM's of Win98, WinXP, Win7 (and a few others like FreeBSD, and >> a Linux distro or three). I can run and test any Windows crud I need >> on my Mac and never get nuked. VMware, but there are free ones too. >> >> >>> The big question being is how much effort do you want to spend on saving a >>> little bit of work? >> Silly question! Consider what mail list he's on. >> >> > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
