[ACARS] The Windows 2000/XP problem

Wed, 23 Jan 2002 15:27:26

Folks

Very much a non-authoratative reply since I did not do the trial myself, nor 
did I see what the guy did. But I gave a copy of the trial AirNav to one of 
the folks in the lab here and he started it on Win NT4 without problems. But 
he tried it "without success" on Win2000 - whether that was it didn't run; 
ran but produced no decodes; or whatever I am not sure. I assume XP would be 
the same

Airmaster V3 on DOS works great on old PCs which can be picked up cheaply. 
Use free pkzip to get them off on floppies and analyse them on something 
more powerful (I use dacars - a very old version too!)

Now having suffered a three hour power outage last Sunday, does anyone know 
a site where I might be able to locate batteries for very old laptops that 
the manufacturers no longer support? Compaq 486 Lte/Lite? Bull 33Mhz 486 
.... VERY old! Work great on the mains but then crash: and unlike a desktop 
they don't restart either so you lose data before & after the power failure!

Ed

>From: "Mike Simpson" <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: <[email protected]>
>Subject: RE: [ACARS] The Windows 2000/XP problem
>Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 20:53:15 +1100
>
>Hi Kevin,
>
>I use among other programs, Sky-Spy made by Pervisell in the UK, this
>program uses a 'Hamcomm' type demodulator.
>
>The following is a quote from the Pervisell site regarding XP
>
>"Please note that Windows XP, NT and 2000 do not have vxd support for
>Demodulators. We recommend that you either stay with Windows 98 SE or use a
>Program like Partition Magic from www.powerquest.com to run Win98 or WinXP
>from the boot menu "
>
>In my case, I dug up my old PC from the garage which still has Windows 98se
>on it and
>use that with both Sky-Spy and the Airnav ACARS decoder, however I would
>have thought the Airnav decoder would run under XP as it is a soundcard
>program, not a COM port program?
>
>Unfortunately, I am not in a position to check this tonight.
>
>Best regards - Mike Simpson, Penrith, NSW, Australia
>
>
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