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Topic: Anyone have an R2 manual?/R2 under Virtual PC
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Michael Schaffer
"Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?"
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Posts: 4143
From: Boston, MA
Registered: Apr 2002
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posted 09-26-2007 01:07 AM
Pdf would be good. I mean the THX analzyer, not the Westrex unit.
BTW, has anyone tried running the R2 under Windows XP, using Virtual PC? I have a Virtual PC module installed on which Windows 98 "runs", and when I "boot" that in DOS mode, I can run the R2 program. But I haven't figured out how to use the serial port of the notebook - which, to complicate things, is not a physical serial port, but the Keyspan USB-to-serial adapter. The Keyspan adapter comes with its own config tool which allows remapping the ports, so mapping it to COM1 is no problem, that's the basic setting for all the other programs (e.g. Dolby) which want to connect to a serial port. But how is that set up under Virtual PC? Basically, the virtual machine is completely integrated into the actual hardware, and there are config options for each virtual machine you create, including COM ports, but there is no option to use the COM port the adapter is currently mapped to - because Windows sees that as "occupied" by that device.
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Michael Schaffer
"Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?"
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Posts: 4143
From: Boston, MA
Registered: Apr 2002
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posted 10-01-2007 08:57 PM
Andrew - thanks a lot for this detailed information. That was basically the direction I had wanted to explore, but didn't have time to so far. I guess it should work just as well when you have Windows 98 in Virtual PC and "boot" that to DOS. I don't have DOS anymore, but I have an old Windows 98 which I installed in Virtual PC on my desktop computer and I ran the R2 appliction under that. Not because I want to use my desktop computer for this, simply because I didn't have Virtual PC on my notebook and just wanted to run a quick test to see if the software even started up in the Windows 98 DOS mode under Virtual PC. It did, but I couldn't establish a working connection to my USB-to-serial adapter (Keyspan). Just out of interest, why do you have to edit autoexec.bat and config.sys to remove mouse, CD-ROM and other functions? Obviously, there is no mouse functionality in the R2 software, but how does it interfere with running the program? Or is that just to free enough lower memory? I dimly recall how much work it could sometimes be to expand and configure it under DOS which wouldn't be necessary here anyway since the R2 software is everything that will ever run under this virutal configuration. Which PCMCIA adapter are you using? I think it always makes sense to try hardware which other people already know works, rather than wasting time with untested hardware which might have driver issues. The one thing I didn't quite understand is the shared folder. How do you set that up? Isn't installing the software on your virtual "C" drive enough? It would be great if you could elaborate on that a little more.
And yes! I would appreciate it very much if you could email me the PDF. I have two R2s which I want to bring back into action even though I also just got a D2.
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