RSS ?? XP & VISTA
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RSS ?? XP & VISTA
does anyone know if waris rss will work on windows vista?
has anyone tried it?
i dont wanna burn up a good radio
has anyone tried it?
i dont wanna burn up a good radio
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- Elroy Jetson
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Ugh, the command prompt in Win95/98 suffices just fine for almost all versions of RSS.
Elroy Jetson wrote:RSS will not work under ANY version of Windows, period.
This is because Windows controls the serial port.
The RSS wants to directly control the serial port.
This creates a conflict which results in corrupted data.
Run the RSS under Windows and radios become expensive bricks.
Elroy
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There are more versions of RSS that are unsafe to run under Windows machines than there are safe ones. Even with the command prompt being nominally workable in some cases, unless it's proven that it's safe for a given radio, I will not chance turning an expensive and useful radio into
a brick when it's still not THAT hard to find an old laptop that's definitely safe for programming radios.
I've never bricked a radio yet. Nor have I ever used anything faster than
a Pentium processor based machine to program a radio though I have used up to a PII to READ radios, with the exception being only the later DOS versions of the Astro RSS. I read and programmed my Astros with a PII
in that case, from the DOS prompt. And then I switched to CPS, but
frankly, the earlier versions of CPS weren't a step forward as far as I
was concerned, compared to the equivalent DOS versions.
CJ
a brick when it's still not THAT hard to find an old laptop that's definitely safe for programming radios.
I've never bricked a radio yet. Nor have I ever used anything faster than
a Pentium processor based machine to program a radio though I have used up to a PII to READ radios, with the exception being only the later DOS versions of the Astro RSS. I read and programmed my Astros with a PII
in that case, from the DOS prompt. And then I switched to CPS, but
frankly, the earlier versions of CPS weren't a step forward as far as I
was concerned, compared to the equivalent DOS versions.
CJ
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To correct this point, because I can:TWL911 wrote:just to make a point, because I can,
there is one, and only 1 version of RSS that is designed to run under windows.
That is Radius 1225 series, and with it, only version 4.0 will work with XP.
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The MTR2000 is also designated as RSS and is obviously designed to run under Windows as well. Current version works on all platforms up to XP.
As far as what's needed to run DOS RSS programs, one just needs to refer to the Motorola Pentium Compatibility Matrix to see what can be generally expected to work with newer computers, and what can't.
Todd
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