Very old drivers for windows 98

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Very old drivers for windows 98

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On a whim I decided to try to use one of my serial 6dof devices on a windows 98 retro-pc, but I can't seem to find old-enough drivers anywhere. The oldest driver in the 3dconnexion website is for windows XP. Is there a chance to unearth and make available older drivers? And old versions of the SDKs too would be nice. I'd rather use my Magellan Spacemouse Plus, but I also have a Spaceball 4000 FLX, so finding drivers for any one of those would be great.
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Digital palaeontology except some of the dinosaurs (me, jwick) still roam around.

I will see what I can find.
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A first search didn't find any old drivers but see if this post helps.
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The question is whether I can find a floppy drive.
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jwick wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:27 am The question is whether I can find a floppy drive.
Or a tape drive. One without a blown vacuum tube.
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ngomes wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2024 7:57 am A first search didn't find any old drivers but see if this post helps.
About spacemice.org? I looked and didn't see any old drivers there, but I already asked Tehrasha about it through email the other day, and got a reply today that he probably has disc images and he needs to look through them. So that sounds promising.
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