Spaceball 3003 FLX Drivers for Inventor 9

[berenjas]

Hi everybody..Im new in the Forum.. :) Ive been surfing the web trying to find the drivers for my old Spaceball 3003 FLX, I have the main driver I donwloaded when 3dconnection used to support.. but not anymore.. also have the Unigraphics Drivers.. but since Im starting with inventor I would like to use the spaceball, does anywone know where I can find the drivers?..

Thanks a lot

Patrizio
berenjas@hotmail.com

[dper]

I found an inexpensive 3003 spaceball on eBay and bought it. It seems that there are enough of the old spaceballs available inexpensively that 3Dconnexion is doing their best to not have to compete with them. Naturally, they want to sell their new (very) expensive ones. They discontinued providing drivers for the 2003 and 3003 models in May or June of 2004. I did find one driver install file on the internet, but its for a 16 bit OS and won't run in XP. It was written for Win 95 or 98. It could be that a driver compatible with XP was never written. I'm hoping it was written but withdrawn and is still available somewhere.
Interestingly, the 3Dconnexion web site seems to offer different links to drivers for three different models of Spaceballs, but if you look closely, they're all the same driver. I wouldn't be surprised if the driver they supply has been written to detect a 3003 and reject it arbitrarily.
If ANYONE has a driver install file for 3003 Spaceballs for a 32 bit OS, I would be very appreciative to receive it!