LCD Smartie and Windows Vista x64

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Have they managed to get this working yet?

I have a parallel driven 4x20 LCD Display on the front of my PC which does not work because LCD Smartie wont work with Windows Vista x64
 
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http://forums.lcdsmartie.org/viewtopic.php?t=856&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0



For those of you trying to get a parallel LCD working on 64bit Vista with InpOut (x64 version), it will not work.

I ported InpOut32 to XP/2003 x64 but unfortunately Vista x64 requires ALL device drivers to be signed (using a commercial Verisign certificate which is not available (AFAIK) to anyone but commercial software companies - and is not cheap).

So basically, InpOut32/x64 will not work in Vista x64.
Port95NT will not work in any 64bit OS as its only a 32bit driver.

So if you have a parallel LCD and want it to work in Vista, stick to 32bit. My port of InpOut32 (here) can be installed in Vista 32bit (requires a UAC elevation) and used thereafter without UAC elevation - although I guess LCD Smartie requires elevation for other things anyway.

If anyone does find a way to get it going on x64 please let me know - I will do likewise.

Thanks,
Phil
 
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