Originally Posted by the13bats but just like when I sit down and play my old Atari sometimes I like doing it in what is an old yet still cool, fun to way to me.... |
Originally Posted by Ken in Regina If you're really into nostalgia and the learning and tweaking to get it to work you could use Garmin's nRoute. |
Originally Posted by Ken in Regina As Boyd said, nRoute works fine under Win7. Not hit or miss, just not plug 'n play. I've even got it working in Win10. So if you're into getting old stuff to work be assured it will work. But it will require some work and possibly some learning. We've helped others get it going. As I mentioned, there are threads about it in the Garmin forum here. I don't think there is a single thread with a step by step recipe. Even if there is, there might still be tweaks needed for your specific configuration. If you enjoy a little detective work I recommend you poke around in there a bit and once you are sufficiently confused we can start answering your questions. One issue will be whether you can make the internal GPS show up on a COM port or whether it only shows up as a sensor. Not a showstopper, just a little more or less work. For what it's worth, if an answer like Boyd's original response gets someone pointed in the right direction and that direction is somewhere else, that kinda makes it a door opener rather than a doorslammer, I think. As for the name of the forum, it's exactly accurate. Changing it to something that there is no intention to support would be a double whammy. First, it would likely cause some who want/need access to the existing information to miss it. Second, there is no intention to formally support other platforms so it would be misleading. So long as the discussions take place in the correct subject areas we are free to share all kinds of information, like Boyd's initial counsel that you might want to consider other options and his experience with some of them. But that doesn't change the primary purpose of the site. On that note, if you decide to tackle nRoute the Garmin forum is the better place for the conversation about how to do that. ...ken... |
Originally Posted by the13bats lol...it installed fine on my tester lap top that doesn't have gps I go to install it on the one with gps and it says it wont install because it couldn't find nroute on the computer... |