Re: [NTLK] Windows XP with Newton

From: Michael Detlefsen (mdetlefsen_at_mac.com)
Date: Thu May 19 2005 - 10:55:17 PDT


On May 18, 2005, at 5:49 PM, Dan wrote:

>
>
>> My question is, will I be able to continue in this way on the new
>> systems? I checked the
>> FAQ and the Wiki and found out that NCU will run on XP (is this
>> really true?), but
>> couldn't find any such info about Newton Press. Anybody know?
>>
>
> Yes it will run just fine on XP (well at least as good as Press
> normally
> runs lol). You shouldn't see any difference. NCU also works on XP.
>

My own experience is that NCU does run fine on the newer Windows
systems. What it doesn't do is communicate with the Newt on some of
them. Back when I was running XP on a 1.2 GHz system, I had little
trouble using NCU with a MP2K, but when I upgraded to a 2.8 GHz
motherboard, it refused to work, regardless of serial port settings
or the use of various slowdown programs. I played around with this
for almost 6 months, off and on. So it does seem to be dependant on
specific hardware.

My brother has an MP2K also, and has similar problems since his
hardware upgrade.

My solution was to dig a 350mHz G4 Mac out of the closet and use it
with OS9. Works perfectly.

Mike

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