April 5, 2005 - Windows XP 64-Bit Edition has finally been released.

PCAUSA has been planning for Windows XP x64 Edition for almost a year.
Rawether V5.5.17.00 (May 17, 2004) introduced preliminary AMD64 support for
the "Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems Customer Preview
Program" release using the AMD Build Environment of the Windows Server 2003
DDK.

At this time we are pleased to release Rawether for Windows V5.5.18.03 which
includes support for Windows x64 Edition (AMD64).

Release notes are at:

Summary: http://www.rawether.net/support/re-releasenotes.htm
Detailed: http://www.rawether.net/RawetherV5_5/RELEASE.TXT

The Rawether for Windows 64-bit drivers support both 32-bit and 64-bit
user-mode applications. Existing Rawether V5.5 32-bit applications will run
unmodified on Windows XP 64-Bit Edition until you have time to build your
own 64-bit target applications.

If you are a current PCAUSA Rawether customer with an interest in supporting
Windows XP x64 Edition, please contact me for information about obtaining
this new Rawether release.

In addition, we have put together downloadable sample executables for
Rawether .NET. The download includes a C# application that is similar to the
standard MFC NDIScope sample application as well as the Rawether .NET C#
Class Library and other standard Rawether Win32 runtime components. Rawether
.NET provides a uniform managed application programming interface using .NET
Framework 1.1 on Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server
2003 - as well as the newly released x64 (AMD64) Editions.

Rawether .NET sample executables can be downloaded from a link on the page:

http://www.rawether.net/DotNet/default.htm

Note that the InstallShield installer is not quite up to the task of
installing mixed 32-bit and 64-bit components on a x64 Edition system. There
is an "Install 64-Bit Drivers" item in the PCAUSA / Rawether program group
that must be manually activated to copy the 64-bit drivers to the correct
folder.

There is also a known problem when installing the .NET Framework 1.1 on x64
systems. The Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 installer provides instructions
for dealing with this problem.

Regards,

Thomas F. Divine