whoeevr the guy from the godlike site is, he claims that that 8portSE works on all windows versions from XP thru to 10, but right now im testing on windows 10 32bit and it will not allow me to install the directMusic Vega drivr whatsoever. it simply says this cannot run on your pc and the driver file installation does absolutely nothing.
i can confirm that the driver does work on windows 10 (2015 version) 64bit with printer port set to EPP and driver signing disabled
ive got the 8portSE working in windows 10(64) under cubase studio 5.
i could not get any of the drivers to work in windows 10 (32) bit
also i updated to the latest windows 10 22H2 build.. and the drievr stopped working.. (thanks again microsoft)
it can still send + receive porgrams with the patchbay app but it doesnt work in the actual sequencer for soem reason.. the lights dont liight up??
ok after some fighting and many reboots... i finally got the driver to install again, and had to press the panic button on the front of the unit to get it to respond properly but its now passing my little test (testing each channel) again this time under the 22h2 windows 10 version. you REALLY have to shift-reboot and press 7 for disabling driver signing tryign to figure out how to permanently disable drievr signing so far i dont think ive figured it out yet
i also got it to work + can confirm windows 8.1 (64bit) also works with the same hardware + software as above but u always have to shift-restart and select startup trubleshooting and then press 7 to select driver signing disabled on reboot to make it work, u will know when it works because it will pop up a little window to test to find the hardware, which will find your 8portSE if its connected properly + the bios settings are set to EPP for the LPT1 port.
if anyone has experience getting it to work under windows XP (32) or Windows 7 (32) please share that info
so the current support with the files available looks like this:
Windows 3.1 yes,, original driver from opcode/MQ, driver 1.62
Windows 95 yes,, original driver from opcode/MQ, driver 1.62
windows 98 yes,, original driver from opcode/MQ, driver 1.62
Windows 98SE yes,, original driver from opcode/MQ, driver 1.62
Windows 2000 possibly? with NT driver?
Windows XP possibly? with NT driver?, need a copy of the 32bit EVC WDM driver or EVC DM driver
Windows Vista 32 no, need a copy of the 32bit EVC WDM driver or EVC DM driver
Windows Vista 64 yes, EVC x64 default user driver /w driver signing disabled on boot
Windows 7 32 no, need a copy of the 32bit EVC WDM driver or EVC DM driver
Windows 7 64 yes, EVC x64 default user driver /w driver signing disabled on boot
Windows 8 32 no, need a copy of the 32bit EVC WDM driver or EVC DM driver
Windows 8 64 yes, EVC x64 default user driver /w driver signing disabled on boot
Windows 10 32bit no, need a copy of the 32bit EVC WDM driver or EVC DM driver
Windows 10 64bit yes, EVC x64 default user driver /w driver signing disabled on boot