What O/S are you using?

Most people that still use Win98 is because they have some software running on it that was not upgraded since. Some old accounting or sales software usually, where they have/use for important business information.

However, the fact that that particular developer left them "out dry" and didn't make any upgrade for their products is a flaw of that particular developer, and not of the ones that kept supporting and developing theirs.

You'll notice that the vast majority of mass-market products don't support their Win9x versions anymore for quite some time. Even Microsoft closed up shop on Win9x support already. With DVDProfiler, like with any other product, it'd be a simple matter of time until the legacy OS support was discontinued (I'm saying all this but I don't even know if there is any way of running DVDPro 3 in w98).

Fact is Scottie, it's harder and harder to find any products that keep win98 support. If you are "inprisioned" to w98 by some old, non-upgradeable software, I think you should start to think on replacing it because it's keeping you in the past and making your life (computer speaking) more and more difficult. I also replaced my old accounting software much against my will at the time, but it's one of the best decisions I made as now I keep getting upgrades and new functionalities from the new one.

Come on, I've been thru 3 OSs already since 98 

Quoting skipnet50:

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Maybe we should still support Windows 3.0<shivers> Or maybe DOS 5

Skip

Aaaahh... Those were the days Skip, those were the days... 

I hope I haven't passed a negative attitude. I went on to a more general analysis of the situation, as this is the reality (older OS's start having little compatible -recent- software).
You'll notice I even said I don't know if 3.0 runs in w98.
I'm not bashing his request in any way. I just took the chance to give a broader advice that would ease up his use of software in general.

Cheers,

Quoting Skywatcher:

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Most people that still use Win98 is because they have some software running on it that was not upgraded since. Some old accounting or sales software usually, where they have/use for important business information.

They should look at Virtual Center or VMware Workstation, that way they can run older apps that won't run on XP or Vista.

Scottie raised the issue before the haitus, if I remember he also had quite low spec hardware, which was one reason he hadn't upgraded to XP.

Quoting Skywatcher:

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I hope I haven't passed a negative attitude.

I was referring to scottiew.  It seems he's assuming the worst and getting all worked up over it.  The fact is we don't know enough yet to know if those fears are justified yet or not.

Quoting gardibolt:

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I can understand the reluctance to change OS; my primary MIDI sequencer worked great on Win 98, but doesn't work on XP (specifically, whenever I try to save anything, it CTDs), so I've had to keep an ancient laptop running 98 so I can do the musical work I need to---I've tried a bunch of XP sequencers but none of them have anywhere near the functionality of the W98 one.    Everything is aimed at mp3 creation or printed scores rather than MIDI.

You might want to setup your computer to dual boot (as long as Win98 drivers are available for the newer computer). Bootit NG works well for stuff like that http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html