If your computer will boot to a Thumb Drive, configure the thumb drive to boot dos and run from the external drive when you want to program legacy radios.
I don't even bother to slow my fast laptop down when programming old radios (Syntors, etc). But some software only works well when you disable the processor internal cache, which I do with a simple (free) utility. So the same latest and greatest laptop can do both XP (& newer) and boot/run the old stuff. s. > "La Rue Communications" <laruec...@...> wrote: > > Finally - another Mac fan surfaces! :-) > > I have tried using DOSBox on our WinXP, however have had ZERO luck on the > serial port recognition. Fromw hat I heard, the emulator will not recognize > serial ports. Is that why you have resorted to the USB dongle? I cant > remember if DOS ever recognized USB accessories. THats news to me! > > THanks for the tip! > > John Hymes > La Rue Communications > 10 S. Aurora Street > Stockton, CA 95202 > http://tinyurl.com/2dtngmn > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Tim - WD6AWP > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 7:02 AM > Subject: [Repeater-Builder] DOSBox to Program Radios > > > > DOSBox (www.dosbox.com) is an x86 emulator with DOS. It works great for > programming those radios that need old, slow PCs for the software. I use it > on my MacBook dual booting into Windows 7 and using an IO Gear USB serial > dongle on COM1. So far I've programmed a couple of Radius M1225's and a > VXR-5000. A friend of mine has similar results with Windows XP on a 800Mhz PC > with a real serial port. > > -- > Tim >
