Re: Installing ZEMAX 6.0 on Win 98SE

From: Danny Rich (DannyRich_at_softhome.net)
Date: 08/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 20:13:00 GMT

If you purchased the software in 1997 and it included the old style Dongle
then, unless your computer is also vintage 1997, you may be experiencing
speed issues. The hardware in the old style dongles cannot keep up with the
newer high-speed parallel ports and the port reads may often not return the
security sequence quickly enough and the message gets garbled. I have
observed this on some other dongle protected software as well.

Danny

"Kevin" <jkevn@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:FpCdnS9dj4AiQK3cRVn-pA@comcast.com...
> I bought ZEMAX 5.5.1 around 1997, and received an upgrade disk for 6.0.
> These versions were intended for Windows 95, but I want to install 6.0 now
> on Windows 98SE (or any other operating system other than Win 95). I get
an
> error message on installation in Windows 98SE, using either disk, and
using
> the hardware lock that came with the software. Could anyone suggest
anything
> I could try to get this software to install? I was thinking there might be
> some simple solution, like changing the LPT1 port settings. Thanks.
>
>