[TowerTalk] AO - No Plot Display

[Neal Campbell and Sarah Ferrell]

Another option  could be to download and run dosbox. It emulates a 
pcdos environment pretty well and might be enough for you to get this 
to work.

Just google dosbox and it will tell you where to download it.

73 Neal k3nc
On Dec 31, 2004, at 2:56 PM, Michael Tope wrote:

> From: <kk9a at arrl.net>
> To: <TOWERTALK at contesting.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 9:38 AM
> Subject: [TowerTalk] AO - No Plot Display
>
>
>> I just bought a new Toshiba notebook computer and I loaded Brian 
>> Beezley's
>> YO and AO antenna modeling programs into it.  I have used these 
>> programs
> on
>> a number of computers with excellent results, until now.  On my new
> computer
>> YO works fine however on AO when I switch to plot to see the radiation
>> pattern  the display goes black.  I know these programs were written 
>> in
> DOS
>> and not for Windows XP Professional, but on three Dell desktop XP Pro
>> computers it works fine.  To start the program I switched to the 
>> Command
>> Prompt and made it full screen.   I have tried various color control
>> settings and computer resolutions without success.  I'm not sure if 
>> Brian
>> still sells or supports this product, if so it's not well publicized. 
>>  Any
>> suggestions?
>>
>> John KK9A
>
> I had the same problem with my Windows XP machine, John. I
> ended up running my K6STI programs on my spare Windows 98
> machine as that was the easiest fix for me. Another possible
> solution that TRlog users have developed is to turn a USB Thumb
> Drive into a bootable DOS drive, and then boot the Windows XP
> machine into DOS from the Thumb Drive. I haven't tried it, but
> seems like it should work. I think you can find details in the TRlog
> archives at contesting.com.
>
> 73 de Mike, W4EF.........................
>
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