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Programming maxtrac,ht1000 and Astro saber
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There is some pretty good laptops on eBay that have a serial port that are running on win xp that are 32 bit. From what I gather the Astro cps will work on this machine?
What is the split of your radio? An "R" split , the fourth digit in the model number of the radio and your good to go, an "S" split may work. You should be able to go about 6-7mhz down below the frequency limit.
Yes Astro works fine in XP
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Has anyone used virtualbox on a modern computer with serial port and loaded windows 95 or dos 6.2 to work with the RSS?
I'm just confused why more people don't just do a dual-boot install and not fool around with DOS boxes. It's easy to do, you end up using the software the way it was designed and you don't have to goof around with trying to make it work, because it just does.
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I would like that but would dos run on a modern computer?
I run it on my Toughbooks that run Windows 7. I'd say they are fairly modern. CF30
Dual boot Win 7 & DOS
When you turn it on, it goes to screen which asks which software to boot to. It times out after several seconds if you don't choose and boots to Windows. Set up my MRSS directory and away I go. Plus it makes it very easy to move files into the DOS partition using Windows, vs having to "copy c:" etc.
Dual boot Win 7 & DOS
When you turn it on, it goes to screen which asks which software to boot to. It times out after several seconds if you don't choose and boots to Windows. Set up my MRSS directory and away I go. Plus it makes it very easy to move files into the DOS partition using Windows, vs having to "copy c:" etc.
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Very nice. Is dos easy to obtain and download online?
I had a Win 98 disk and the original DOS 6.22 disks from way back when. You can always use Free-DOS. There are a lot of tutorials on how to make it work, even if you already have Windows installed. I did that on one of mine so I wouldn't have to start from scratch.
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My HP laptop died on Friday. Had ALL my programming software on it. I managed to recover all the install packages off the hard drive(thankfully it did not fail), and I am starting over with a clean Win7 64bit install on a CF-19 Centrino 2 @ 1.2Ghz w/ 3Gb of ram.
It’s a slow process, installing all my software from scratch but in the end I will have my programming computer back. Plus is that it has a real RS-232 port. I won’t have to use a USB<->Serial dongle anymore for any Vertex radios.
Unlike a lot of folks, all my USB cables have Prolific chipsets. I have never had any issues with Prolific. Ever. They just have worked for me.
I don’t mess with any radios that require DOS based RSS/software very often, and if I do, I have an old beat up, dual boot toughbook that has a pooched main battery and a dead CMOS battery that I can drag out to program Maxtrac/GM300 ectera.
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It’s a slow process, installing all my software from scratch but in the end I will have my programming computer back. Plus is that it has a real RS-232 port. I won’t have to use a USB<->Serial dongle anymore for any Vertex radios.
Unlike a lot of folks, all my USB cables have Prolific chipsets. I have never had any issues with Prolific. Ever. They just have worked for me.
I don’t mess with any radios that require DOS based RSS/software very often, and if I do, I have an old beat up, dual boot toughbook that has a pooched main battery and a dead CMOS battery that I can drag out to program Maxtrac/GM300 ectera.
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Ok that makes more sense because I need a computer to run rss and one that has xp that will work with the Astro cps but if anyone confirms the Astro cps will work in a newer os like 7 or 10 I would only need 1 computer with dual boot
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