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  • B004WNT Driver Installation

    From TangentDelta@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 26 08:01:56 2021
    Hello again.

    I'm trying to install the B004NT driver package from transputer.net onto my Windows NT 4.0 Workstation machine. The PDD portion of the driver can be installed and starts/stops with no issues. I can't figure out how to install the VDD part of the driver
    though. The "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\VirtualDeviceDrivers\VDD" key is a "binary" type value but the readme.txt suggests that it is a REG_MULTI_SZ string. If I replace it with a string-type value with the contents suggested by the readme, I
    get a "VDD registry key format incorrect" error when I try to launch one of the Transputer tools.

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  • From Mike B.@21:1/5 to All on Tue Apr 27 04:01:42 2021
    Use regedt32 and not that premature regedit.

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  • From TangentDelta@21:1/5 to TangentDelta on Tue Apr 27 07:14:39 2021
    On Tuesday, April 27, 2021 at 9:40:48 AM UTC-4, TangentDelta wrote:
    On Tuesday, April 27, 2021 at 7:01:43 AM UTC-4, Mike B. wrote:
    Use regedt32 and not that premature regedit.
    I deleted the modified VDD value and then re-added it with the same contents in regedt32. I'm getting the same error.

    The error is:
    Command Prompt - ispy
    SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\VirtualDeviceDrivers.
    VDD. Virtual Device Driver format in the registry is invalid.
    [Terminate] [Ignore]

    Ignoring the error just causes the program to run, but it cannot see the B004.
    I deleted the entire VirtualDeviceDrivers key and re-added it with regedt32 with a REG_MULTI_SZ VDD with the contents of "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\drivers\b004vdd.dll", without quotes. I'm not getting a different error saying that b004vdd.dll failed DLL
    initialization, which looks a lot more promising.

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  • From TangentDelta@21:1/5 to Mike B. on Tue Apr 27 06:40:47 2021
    On Tuesday, April 27, 2021 at 7:01:43 AM UTC-4, Mike B. wrote:
    Use regedt32 and not that premature regedit.
    I deleted the modified VDD value and then re-added it with the same contents in regedt32. I'm getting the same error.

    The error is:
    Command Prompt - ispy
    SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\VirtualDeviceDrivers.
    VDD. Virtual Device Driver format in the registry is invalid.
    [Terminate] [Ignore]

    Ignoring the error just causes the program to run, but it cannot see the B004.

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  • From TangentDelta@21:1/5 to All on Tue Apr 27 07:18:07 2021
    Replacing "%SYSTEMROOT%" with the actual path resolved the issue. Ispy runs and can find the Transputers.

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