Abstract: A hardware independent peripheral control system and method are disclosed. The system comprises: a virtualised controller (20) executable by a processor (35) of a host system (30). The virtualised controller (20), when executed by the host system (30), has an input interface (21), an output interface (22), a processor (23) and a memory (24). The memory (24) encodes data on one or more peripheral specific instructions to control a peripheral (40) attached or connected to the host system (30). The input interface (21) is configured to receive peripheral agnostic instructions from the host system (30).