Originally Posted by
sewwhat85
some of the old embroidery programs for the Huskqvarna do not work on the new windows formats. My 1+ has to have a windows 96 or older. It does not matter if you have the right port or not if the program will not run on the new computer. To make my reader writer to work on a new computer I would have to buy a whole new embroidery program and then Huskqvarna will not guarantee that that would even work.
This is very true about old software, which is why a lot of people are switching to floriani for lifelong upgradews, and no dongle(reader/writer box). If you need that for your embroidery machine the problem is your system is so outdated you will likely have to purchase new software. Companies only update software to work on specific OS for so long, and once microsoft stops supporting that OS more than likely there will be no further update for ones that ran on that OS. Before you buy anything if you are dependent on a card writer, I would see if there is a generic one that you could use and maybe look into floriani. If you are going to buy floriani software, I would do it at an event because it is discounted greatly. I just went to one and I have already invested into my software so didn't purchase, but if I had no software I would have been so willing to buy