Developers occupied with SO2R right now. Think that via some time I will
upload version to test Alt-R function. Without Alt-D yet.
UA4WLI
Dmitriy
> Unfortunately TR4W has no support for SO2R...the main reason I still use
> TR. Any idea if the
> developers are planning on adding two radio support?
>
> With DOSEMU I was never able to get good CW output except at qrs speeds.
> But I haven't tried since getting a faster computer, maybe worth trying
> again.
>
> I have had some luck recently running TR inside a virtual machine
> (Microsoft Virtual PC 2007,
> host OS Windows XP 32 bit). The hardware virtualization on newer
> processors may be helping. There I am using FreeDOS as the virtual OS, 1
> real com port, 1 USB/serial converter com port, and a parallel port. CW
> sounds quite good. One limitation though is that the Microsoft Virtual PC
> only has 2 serial ports on its virtual machine (ie 2 radios + packet would
> be impossible).
>
> KVM under Linux may also give similar results (supports hardware
> virtualization).
>
> Finally, one comment to the original post: if it is an older laptop, check
> to see if you can just
> run it directly from a 12V battery, instead of using any converters. For
> FD last year I used an old
> Gateway Solo 5100 laptop, and found it would run just fine with 12V
> applied to wires soldered to
> the laptop's battery terminals (old battery was junk). I put a diode to
> drop the voltage some, but that was probably not needed. This is much more
> efficient that using the laptop's AC converter and a
> battery/AC converter in series.
>
> Tor
> N4OGW
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