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Hi I am in the process of upgrading my PC from one with Windows XP Media Centre edition to Windows Vista. I have been a SIAM customer for a number of years...
Tim Brewin
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Sep 25, 2008
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I've found that you can play the Traffic Control simulations without DosBox on Vista, but that the sounds are distorted. Using DosBox, which emulates a SB16...
John Tempest
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Sep 25, 2008
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... Vista ... Vista does have a number of implementation options, so your system may do better. My experience on two different Vista systems, one desktop and ...
Tim Bourne
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Sep 25, 2008
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Many thanks for the information.  Will let you know how I get on.  Tim...
Tim Brewin
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Sep 30, 2008
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I'm running Vista on a desktop and using Dosbox but not all simulations work on it it seems. I'm particularly thinking of CL57 which I can't get to run on it....
John Firth
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Sep 30, 2008
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... I've run CL57 with DOSBox and Vista with no trouble. The problem may lie in the options selected in the dosbox.conf file, perhaps. CL57 is the only one...
Tim Bourne
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Sep 30, 2008
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Thanks, but I'm not very aware of how to do that :-(( I get error message 'Can't find dpmi16bi.ovl' when i try to run CL57, would this be relevant to vitual...
John Firth
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Sep 30, 2008
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... Yes, indeed it would. That file must be in the directory/folder from which CL57 is run, as must the file RTM.EXE. Both would have been supplied at the same...
Tim Bourne
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Sep 30, 2008
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Thank you, Tim. Fortunately I acquired an external floppy drive a while back and when I dusted off the old floppy it worked! Just have to sort out the Window...
John Firth
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Sep 30, 2008
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Tim, A few comments on the Isle of Wight Windows test. I find all of it fine to use and no problem. My only area of concern is the window/screen size. On the...
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Oct 12, 2008
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... . ... I hope that explains the decision to go for the current format. The fact that displays no longer have to fit the 640x480 ratio means that to fill ...
Tim Bourne
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Oct 13, 2008
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Brian/Tim, Understandable and fine, I will fool around on my next long flight, I'm pretty sure I can overcome the problem. Just put my response down to me...
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Oct 13, 2008
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Tim tried the windows version of Isle of Wight on vista and found it worked very well except for the sound being barely audible. Dave...
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Oct 13, 2008
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Thanks to all of you for your comments. Brian and I are both monitoring this group, and will look into any problems reported, but we probably won't reply...
Tim Bourne
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Oct 13, 2008
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Hi Tim - I have tryed the IOW windows version today and none of the help files seem to link to the menu - The help lists the various catagories but show a page...
Owen Chapman
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Oct 13, 2008
5:26 pm
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... I can't understand this. I've just downloaded the zip file myself, and unzipped all three files into an empty folder, then run it from there, and the Help...
Tim Bourne
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Oct 13, 2008
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Perhaps it's because I'm still on XP ODC ... From: Tim Bourne To: SIAMulations@... Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 7:29 PM Subject: Re:...
Owen Chapman
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Oct 13, 2008
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With the publication of the excellent British Railways Railway Centres No. 1 - Leeds Central, is there any hope of a futute sim based on Leeds Central 1957,...
Chris Walker
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Oct 13, 2008
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... help files seem to link to the menu - The help lists the various catagories but show a page can not be displayed blank in the content window. I have...
Chris Walker
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Oct 13, 2008
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... It's certainly possible. I haven't read the book yet, but I have it sitting waiting to be read, and am looking forward to it. At the moment, though, my...
Tim Bourne
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Oct 13, 2008
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... help files seem to link to the menu - The help lists the various catagories but show a page can not be displayed blank in the content window. I have...
bhornsey
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Oct 13, 2008
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... Centres ... Leeds ... stock ... with ... Chris, I have also spotted the Leeds Central offering from Express Publishing: excellent works, all of them. It's...
bhornsey
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Oct 13, 2008
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If you get the following message: This program cannot display the webpage Most likely causes: * You are not connected to the Internet. * The website is...
John Tempest
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Oct 14, 2008
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... Thanks for the tip, John, but I don't think this bit of it is true. The .chm format is the new format, itself superseding .hlp. The problem is that, as so...
Tim Bourne
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Oct 14, 2008
8:57 am
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John, Many thanks - I had the same problem of being unable to access the Help Screens, but your fix has worked. Mike P.S.: Brian, if you're reading this then...
MICHAEL RUDKIN
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Oct 14, 2008
10:51 am
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Hi Tim The .chm format was introduced some time ago (with the launch of Windows 98 and Internet Explorer 4). The Help developer's kit 1.4 (current version of ...
John Tempest
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Oct 14, 2008
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... I am more than happy to be patient! Chris...
Chris Walker
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Oct 14, 2008
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Hi John, Thanks for this. To be honest, I'm running Vista myself and this isn't an issue which has occured so far; but then I'm creating the CHM locally on the...
bhornsey
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Oct 14, 2008
11:24 pm
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Tim / Brian I have being playing with your windows demo of IOW 1932 and find the sim as easy to use as the DOS programmes. The only points I would make are in...
davruss001
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Oct 15, 2008
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As one of the less technically IT competent members of the SIAM user community I have followed the recent email exchange with interest, but hope that we won't...
P Lovell
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