AutoCad Lt 98

[JCD]

I have a copy of AutoCad LT 98 that I have been using for several years and like very well.
The software was furnished on 3 1/2 floppies which was fine until I smoked my computer and find that mu new computer will does not have a floppy or even worse a floppy controller.
I considered a USB floppy, but when I am loading AC the program tells me to place next disk in drive A:.
I no longer have an A:
Help, Does anyone have any suggestions?

Help.

[RB211]

What happens when you put the second disk in? Does the software give an error saying no A drive?
What does your USB floppy drive appear as? Removable storage like a thumb drive?
Perhaps when you plug in the USB floppy drive, you can change it to A: drive under preferences, unless of course the bios or OS will not allow this.

[rmancini]

What operating system are you using?
ACAD 98 probably won't work (or even load) with anything newer than Win ME.

Rich

[JCD]

I'm running XP, have for several years without any problem.

[JoeBean]

I'm running XP, have for several years without any problem.

See the following Microsoft KB article to assign your USb drive to a:
kb 307844

Have you tried ProgeCAD Smart though? It's a remarkably good clone of AutoCAD and it's free. I was surprised last week when i was at my parent's house and had to whip up a drawing of a new deck and only had their laptop (which had no CAD s/w). It is remarkably similar to AutoCAD. And for the whole time I was using it I only had one problem come up, which went away after exiting & starting the program again.
See here.

[rmancini]

I'm running XP, have for several years without any problem.

Years ago when XP first came out, I ran "XP Ready" on my Win98 machine.
The results came back - a whole list of incompatable software - ACAD 2000 was included on the list.
I guess it really wasn't incompatable after all.
Live and learn!
Rich

[ADGO_Racing]

I thought that XP accepted all software made to operate with earlier Windows products. I have not run into any compatibility issues running XP. At some point in the relatively near future, I am planning to upgrade this computer, it most likely will have Windows 7 on it, I do see Dell will sell a XP downgrade (Seems like an oxymoron to me) with a new computer. Most people I have spoken with are relatively pleased (As pleased as one can be, with a MS product) with Windows 7 so far.

[Weston Bye]

...Most people I have spoken with are relatively pleased (As pleased as one can be, with a MS product) with Windows 7 so far.

Not me. Well, it does work well enough, but it wouldn't run most of my older CAD software without workarounds. I found it easier to just swap it with my wife's XP box and move on.

[JCD]

Problem solved.

Thanks for the help.

[EddyCurr]

... I do see Dell will sell a XP downgrade (Seems like an oxymoron
to me) with a new computer. Most people I have spoken with are
relatively pleased (As pleased as one can be, with a MS product)
with Windows 7 so far.

I bought the current Dell workstation before the release of Win7 and
ordered it with the XP downgrade rather than accept Vista.

Remember that Dell/Microsoft had earlier declared that XP was no longer
going to be available - Vista or nothing. A consumer outcry led them
to change their minds and backtrack on the discontinuance of XP, but
they didn't make it easy then to get the XP downgrade.

Be aware, if you have not already discovered for yourself, that there
is an interface learning curve if you drink the Win7 koolaid. Change for
the sake of change, instead of for the sake of improvement.

And what were they thinking when someone came up with the Office 2007
interface revisions ??

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