aardvark drivers

nolman

hello,
I am an aardvark pro q10 user,
As you may already know, the company dissapeared
leaving many customers with bad drivers and
no support anymore. (thus soon expensive useless hardware)
We are trying to get the sourcecode for the drivers
but no luck so far, they just dissapeared.

my question is (noob!) :
Can the people from kx do the same for the aardvarkdrivers
as they did for audigy,... -drivers?
I suppose you guys didn't get no sourcecode from creative?
Can this be reverse engineered?

any help or answer on this topic would
be most welcome, as we are getting hopeless.

there is a yahoo group with forum
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/aardvarkpro

and a user support site with drivers,...
http://asg.hopto.org

and even a petition
http://www.petitiononline.com/aardvark/petition.html

thnx and grtz,
nolman

DexVegas

I had a problem like that when I purchased a gadgetlabs card a few years ago-about a week before they went bellyup. There was no win2000 ASIO support and no XP support at all. A user going by the name of Mostek stepped up and offered to attempt to write drivers for the card. Most of the 'experts' on the yahoo user group said it was impossible without the source code and a bunch of hardware info. He managed to fix up the existing drivers, giving them higher performance and many less bugs. Meanwhile some others in the group found a third party developer who had been using GL systems as part of their stage play automation/remote control software/hardware systems. On the companys FTP a zip file containing at least part of the GL-ASIO source was found. Inquiries were made-they couldnt legaly give out the code-but they couldnt stop anyone from dl'ing the password protected zip file, they said. They let it be known that the pass was changed and it was simple[wink, wink]. From that source [XP code and ASIO stuff I guess] and with the help of an ex-tech from GL Mostek has been able to code a working XP driver. A number of members even got together to buy Mostek a top line 8 channel GL board [he had the cheaper 4 channel]. Others have joined in to code a control panel to give the funtionallity of the original win98 GL drivers.

Development continues, and the group remains extremly active.

So maybe check out the yahoo GL groups[there are two] for some advice-they had to have reversed at least some of it. And search for any third party developers that 'vark may have had. Maybe your group will produce another 'Mostek' ...........Good luck.