[amsat-bb] Re: InstantTrack and windows 7

[Mark L. Hammond]

One of the really impressive things I've been able to do with the virtual WinXP under Win7---running old DOS programs that use hardware comm ports 1 or 2 with TNCs!   It works wonderfully.   (Seems like I tried it with DOSBOX without any luck...)

Mark N8MH 

At 11:42 AM 2/2/2012 -0600, Alan P. Biddle wrote:
>Scott,
>
>No problem, unless you want to run it in full screen or graphics mode.  WIN7
>does not fully support DOS programs in full screen mode.  However, there are
>a couple of ways around that.  You can run it in a virtual XP machine.  I
>have WIN7 Pro, and it is a free download.   
>
>However, there is a simpler method.  There is a program called DOSBox which
>is intended to run really old legacy games.  It works perfectly with ITrack,
>and makes a much smaller footprint on your machine.
>
>http://www.dosbox.com/
>
>Even though I have the virtual XP machine, I prefer to use the DOSbox
>version.  With a little obvious tweaking of the configuration, it will come
>up as before. 
>
>73s,
>
>Alan
>WA4SCA
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>-----Original Message-----
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>Behalf Of Scott Smith
>Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 11:11 AM
>To: amsat-bb at amsat.org
>Subject: [amsat-bb] InstantTrack and windows 7
>
>Hi folks, just updated one of my computers to windows 7. Does InstantTrack
>work with this version of windows?. Have no problem on my other computers
>using windows XP. Any help appreciated .
>73 de VE6ITV Scott  
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