(meteorobs) MetShow and Vista

[Kim Hay]

On 9 Aug 2007 at 12:38, Jan Verfl wrote:

Just an update on Metshow and Vista.  A suggestion to try the progam 
in the dos prompt box.

Hence I tried this, same issue, comes up with"This sytsem does not 
support fullscreen mode, and in the top of the box 16 bit ms-dos 
subssystem, I guess they have got rid of trying to run the 16 bit 
programs.


On a side note, it was cloudy alnight but Friday is suppose to be 
clear, so finally some meteor observing can be done.

Kim 

 
> Hello,
> 
> I have not tried it myself, but i was (for a different, but simillar reason)
> told about DOSBox - it is a box with DOS that tuns on whatever and it seems
> not to be only an logical-protection layer, but it is just a CPU/system
> emulator  - what is good (being hopelly win-proof) and bad (being very
> resource-demanding) - they have a win32 verison which afaik could run on
> vista, or as a WoW on 64-vista, but there are no Vistas around me to try.
> Anyway, you can try it on dosbox.sourceforge.net 
> 
> Good luck
> Jan 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org 
> > [mailto:meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org] On Behalf Of Kim Hay
> > Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 11:42 AM
> > To: Bill Godley; Global Meteor Observing Forum
> > Subject: Re: (meteorobs) MetShow and Vista
> > 
> > On 8 Aug 2007 at 19:47, Bill Godley wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Bill,
> > 
> > Exactly what I got last night, and if you press the ignore button 
> > your left with a small blank screen.
> > 
> > Well, we tried.
> > 
> > thanks 
> > Kim 
> > 
> >  
> > > I mentioned in an earlier post that I was able to run 
> > MetShow under Windows XP (from a flash drive actually) and 
> > found it to be helpful in observation planning.  
> > Unfortunately, I could not duplicate the success on my Vista 
> > system.  I got an error message something along the line of 
> > "not able to support fullscreen mode" and I think I saw some 
> > reference to MS-DOS 16-bit.
> > > 
> > > Anyhow, if anyone has been able to run MetShow under Vista 
> > please share your secret.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Bill
> > > 
> > > 
> > >        
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