Windows 7
kberck
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Anyone else have problems identifying hardware after upgrading to windows 7? When I connect the cable the com port shows up but it cant find the propeller.
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i have had no problems with windows 7 other then having to install both 32 and 64 bit drivers for lots of things because people have not writen 64 bit versions of everything yet.
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24 bit LCD Breakout Board coming soon. $21.99 has backlight driver and touch sensitive decoder.
I have some Ocean front property for sale. Only problem.....you will have to wait for the ice caps to melt before the beaches arrive.
James L
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James L
Partner/Designer
Lil Brother SMT Assembly Services
Are you addicted to technology or Micro-controllers..... then checkout the forums at Savage Circuits. Learn to build your own Gizmos!
There is a ftdi driver update on their website that Beau pointed out a few days ago but I had no problems with the previous version either - using the 64bit version.
Honestly, that's good to know. I've been lurking around waiting to hear what kind of problems were popping up with it. Nice to know that there hasn't been some kind of computational implosion going on all over the globe. Maybe it's just the name I still don't like. Maybe they should have called it Fixsta.
I'll stick with XP Pro for a couple of more years, and let all the drivers catch up. I never get a new PC OS when it first comes out.
James L
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James L
Partner/Designer
Lil Brother SMT Assembly Services
Are you addicted to technology or Micro-controllers..... then checkout the forums at Savage Circuits. Learn to build your own Gizmos!
Ross.
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Catalina - a FREE C compiler for the Propeller - see Catalina
Tried running linux but could not get blu-ray player to work under it.
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24 bit LCD Breakout Board coming soon. $21.99 has backlight driver and touch sensitive decoder.
Ha....never had 1.0
I started with 3.0. And a lightning speed modem of 2400. Wow...those were the days of just massive speeds. ASCII graphics and all.
Pretty bad my RAM is bigger than my first hard drive.
James L
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James L
Partner/Designer
Lil Brother SMT Assembly Services
Are you addicted to technology or Micro-controllers..... then checkout the forums at Savage Circuits. Learn to build your own Gizmos!
Yeah, stick with what works for you until you have a reason to switch. I got a discount so it was only $29 to upgrade to Fixsta, I mean 7 [noparse]:)[/noparse]
The only issue I've really had is switching to 64 bit which I can't blame MS for since its the manufacturers who have to do the new driver.
mctrivia, I always go to the Ubuntu forums when something isn't working, tons of people there who love to troubleshoot linux issues...
Aaaaah, for me there will always be a soft spot in my robot cow rectum simulator heart for Windows 5 and 6.
Just in case you missed it the first time:
http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?p=854837
Ross.
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Catalina - a FREE C compiler for the Propeller - see Catalina
Thank you all for volenteering to be Beta testers (Oh, and for all the donations)
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Style and grace : Nil point
Donations? Pictures a trilby and tommy gun :
A : "This is a very nice army base you 'ave 'ere guv. Be a shame if something 'appened to it"
B : "What do you mean?"
A : "Well, fings break you see. Be a shame if one of your tanks "caught fire"."
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If you always do what you always did, you always get what you always got.
(e.g. MatLab) .....and I mean I could not even INSTALL let alone run them. And many utilities that
I have which are just EXEs would not run either.
I now have a $1200 laptop that just sits around doing nothing except surf the internet since I had
to buy another laptop and installed XP on it.
Does anyone know if the FIXTA 64 (oops 7) can run old software or does it still have the same
"we are going to force you to buy new software all over again" policy?
Has anyone who upgraded to Vista 64 and could not run software from his XP days tried to run
that very same software on Fixta 64?.....Please tell me if you could run any software that could not
run on Vista 64.......I may pay the $$$$ to upgrade if Fixta 64 can run old software.
@Rossh....I do not get·it...why is that link funny?.....Windows 1.0....AAAAHHH the good old days...
@ElectricAye......
@JamesLong......
@BradC....good one...
Entertaining post guys....
Sam
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Post Edited (SamMishal) : 11/11/2009 12:11:36 PM GMT
Win 7 in general runs pretty good for me. Most of my older software runs w/o issue. One strange thing is Roxio 2009 needed to be upgraded to the newer 2010 version. Also DisKeeper 2008 also does not run with Win 7. But I have some older stuff written back in the 2000 tim frame that runs fine.
I gues VB6 does not like to run with it either, but that is a product that was released 11+ years ago.
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Jim Fouch
FOUCH SOFTWARE
But it is worth it to be able to take advantage of all my RAM(32 bit limits to 3.5G) and there will be a significant speed increase once the high computational programs have been rewriten in 64bit.
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Visit some of my articles at Propeller Wiki:
MATH on the propeller propeller.wikispaces.com/MATH
pPropQL: propeller.wikispaces.com/pPropQL
pPropQL020: propeller.wikispaces.com/pPropQL020
OMU for the pPropQL/020 propeller.wikispaces.com/OMU
Sorry - it wasn't all that funny in the first place, and explaining it further would only make it worse. Let's just say that I never actually realized WHERE you were supposed to install "Windows up dates". This may explain why they never worked for me - I always thought they were supposed to go in the computer, not the user.
Ross.
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Catalina - a FREE C compiler for the Propeller - see Catalina
OK...now I get it....it is funny.....MSoft is putting other things in users not just software upgrades
and they are doing it more and more....
With this new idea floating around with NO MORE PC....everyone is meant to have software off the
internet and no more software actually running on·your PC....i.e. the PC is going to be a MAINFRAME-Terminal·.
It really amazes me how CYCLICAL history is.......Mainframe-> Mini -> PC -> Networked PC -> |
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One of the reasons I hated mainframes was the lack of flexibility and FREEDOM...........
so now we lose our freedoms AGAIN......and the computer industry is just a METAPHOR
for LIFE in general. Everything these days is going in exactly the same direction the PC
industry is going.
If JamesLong is selling property on Mars I may think about buying one....except I think
I will be dead by the time they are ready........
Sam
Because XP is slowing down again even though Propeller Tool is the only thing installed,
and the Propeller is starting to fall asleep again waiting for Windows to deliver the data,
and the serial and parallel ports for my other chip programmers are missing on the new PC's,
and since I've been programming since 1980 I'm not going to throw away my life's work
every time the Gates of Hell open up a new truckload of bovine excrement for sale and
convince people they really need and want a bigger pile, now that XP doesn't stink as much anymore.
Is that just a coincidence or is there a YouTube version of your singing this somewhere?
The vironcybernet channel occasionally gets radio from the future, songs that haven't been
sung yet, holographic video, and neutron flux from the Higgs Boson. I'm half asleep and hearing
the rap song on the Convolvotron too. Wait a minute. What is a convolvotron? The lyrics are
different, I'm not sure it's rap, maybe the operator on my pocket calculator? zzzzzzzz }|
Actually Windows 7 has the best device support yet. On one machine I have a 4 monitor setup using a matrox TH2G digital that had issues in Vista with 180 deg rotation and could only goto 4320x900 - with Win7 I was able to rotate and use the full native 5040x1050 resolution without installing any software.
/michael