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| Subject: | Re: Tamiya CD-ROMs and Windows NT/2000 |  |
| Date: | Jun 26, 2002 |
| From: | B. G. Eady | |
Mr. Frost,
The CD takes a bit to load...Memory wise... it is shelling out to run...
look at your system resources...
Start > Settings > Control Panel > System > Performance tab > System
Resources... Percentages needs to be greater than 50% on most machines...
Microsoft recommends 75%! Nearly unattainable for many with a lot of proggys
running. I have 82% free..... I shut everything down when not using it
except for Norton!!!
It is not the Upgrade for QuickTime to version 6... you need to get rid of
ALL old versions of QuickTime and then re-install QuickTime 6... or the
proggys do not know which to run. These are specific instructions from
Apple.
It runs well for me on Windows 95, Windows 98 both versions, NT3, NT4,
Windows ME, Windows XP Home and Windows XP Pro... just ran a test on the T-
34 and the Tiger CD's at the shop.... I have them all and was disappointed
in the minimal content and the direct printing...
Make sure by checking your system resources in Control
"Steve Frost" wrote in message
news:3D192DA1.F9659DFF@mindsprang.com...
> I appreciate the responses folks. Unfortunately, the QuickTime upgrade
> didn't help any. Run executable on the CD-ROM, and nada. System(s) don't
> crash, but nothing happens, not even an attempt to run the executable
> and nothing shows up in the Task Manager for either machine after
> running it. Same results on the WinNT and Win2k machines. Not a big loss
> financially, but I liked the content on it and wanted to print some more
> of the documentation like the scale plans, the tanker uniforms, the
> basic loads, OVM load outs, etc., etc. Drat it all...
>
> I even searched and visited the website (www.absolute-als.com)
> referenced in the README documentation for
> the CD-ROM. It doesn't exist. More accurately, it exists, but there's no
> content on it, not even the company name (and these are multimedia
> producers?). Visited the Tamiya website to search for these CD-ROMs, and
> couldn't find them there either. Tamiya helped produce them or at the
> least put their name and logo on them. It's as if the company released
> these CD-ROMs and just disappeared...
>
> All in all, it's disappointing. I had hoped more CD-ROMs would follow on
> various other vehicles. I now have a CD-ROM chock full of reference I
> can't use...Drat it all...did I say that already?
>
> Regards,
> Steve
> reply-to: sofrost@mindspring.com
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> > Ray Peterson wrote:
> >
> > I agree with Mr. Bell's suggestion. I had problems with running videos
also until I d/l'ed the latest version of Quicktime, and that was on a Win98
machine.
> >
> > Ray |
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