Extending the life of an old CCD scanner: how to solve the driver issue for Win8.1?

Question

Scanning

The advantages of CCD scanners over CIS are well known, and yet CCDs have almost ceased to be produced - at least that's how it turns out if you google on this topic. The perfectly working old CCD scanner had to be withdrawn from use only due to the fact that, due to uncontrollable circumstances, WinXP had to be abandoned.
I got deeper into this topic - it turned out to be very relevant: a huge number of people are looking for either alternative drivers for their CCD favorites, or ways to cheat drivers for XP. I began to check everything I found on the Web - as they warned, nothing happened (by the way, including the use of virtual machines with old OSes: I could not overcome the difficulties with setting up the VM itself and especially the periphery).
So the question arose: why, with such demand, there was no offer? After all, there are probably people in the CCD scanner user community who have experience in writing drivers for Win8. It is clear why manufacturers do not do this - they need to sell new products, for this they need to suppress competition from the old one (which is often better than the new one - this is me again about the advantages of CCD over CIS). But the user community is not constrained by marketing restrictions, what is it waiting for, why does it not take matters into its own hands?
I would not even refuse a paid option: 500...1000 rubles for such a driver is still much cheaper than buying a new (and worse) scanner just for the Win8 driver alone. So I ask you to consider this question as a kind of order form for any interested programmer who has the appropriate qualifications. To begin with, for the most common models, say, Mustek 1200CU.

Answer 1

I disavow my question. It turns out that the answer has already been given, and specifically to my wording - the enthusiastic programmer Mr.Hamrick wrote the VueScan program, which is an almost universal driver for several hundred (or thousands?) different scanner models. Tried it - it works!

Answer 2

If I needed to REALLY use the scanner, say, Mustek 1200CU, I would install the second OS (XP, of course) on a separate disk. You need to scan - sent 8.1 to hibernation, booted into XP, scanned, returned to 8.1.
8.1 stands, of course, on an SSD, falls asleep and wakes up very quickly. The second HDD, which is for files, movies, music, can painlessly bite off some space for XP.