[ct-user] CT & XP

[Ron Notarius W3WN]

Hi Mark,

I appreciate the thought, but that's not really something I wanted to do.
If I boot the machine under DOS, then the only thing it would be able to do
is CT and a few other DOS apps.  I wanted to be able to keep an eye on the
cluster at the same time (in those contests that I'm either operating
SO-A/SO-U or not seriously competing in, obviously those that I'm in SO
would mean no packet), which I could do with a DOS window, but not when I'm
running solely DOS.

I'm going to take a look at CTWin.  The last time I looked at it, which was
a very early version (maybe even the beta?) it wasn't quite what I thought
of as ready, and I had some problems with it -- again, that was a long time
ago.

Besides, to drift for a moment, I'm in the process of upgrading all of the
house computers from Win 98SE to Win XP, which is right now waiting on
memory and hard drives for the existing machines, so I really don't want to
drift back to DOS.  Much as I like and miss DOS, the time to move forward is
here.

Speaking of which... and again, I don't know if this has been addressed in
the past here or not... but considering that it appears that CT development
is pretty much halted for the forseeable future, has anyone with a
programming background approached K1EA & crew for permission to work on a
modernized version?  It just seems a shame to see CT fade away; it was way
ahead of it's time when introduced, and still remains one of the best
available contesting programs.  Surely there is someone out there who could
help move it into the 32 bit world?  Or is this a lost cause?

73, ron w3wn

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Bailey [mailto:kd4d at comcast.net]
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 8:00 AM
To: Ron Notarius W3WN; ct-user at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [ct-user] CT & XP


Hi Ron:

Since you already have a FAT32 partition, you can very easily
install DOS and a small program to allow your computer to boot
straight to DOS on that partition or WindowsXP.  If you are
interested, I'll tell you how to do it.  The only
"difficult" part about doing this is creating the D: drive
(or partition) and you have done that.  The only
restriction is that D: must be a PRIMARY partition...
it probably is.

Let me know if you are interested.

73,

Mark, KD4D

Ron Notarius W3WN wrote:
> Forgive me if this is a known issue -- I suspect it is -- but for the
first
> time since I bought CT 6.17 at Dayton longer ago than I care to think
about,
> I ran into a major problem with CT yesterday.
>
> Went to setup CT 10 on the "new" (OK, rebuilt) shack computer so I could
run
> a little SS for the spare hour or so I had, and it locked up on me during
> initial setup.  Never at the same place, but I never got out of the setup
> screen.
>
> The new computer is running XP Pro SP2.  It replaced a Win98SE box.  Also,
> FWIW, I have the CT files stored on my D: drive instead of C: -- D: is a
> smaller FAT32 drive instead of an NTFS drive, neccesary to avoid problems
> with my primary logging and QSL management routines (written in dBase IV &
> Visual dBase 5.7... which, being 16 bit apps, don't handle NTFS long file
> names well, but THAT's another story altogether)
>
> SO, two simple questions:
> -- Is this a compatibility problem with CT & XP?
> -- And if so, should I switch to CTWin?
>
> I really hate to give up on CT.  It may be "old" software, but it's tried,
> true, and I'm used to it.
>
> 73, ron w3wn
>
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