Strand Lighting Off Line editor

[Ben P]

I am in need of the strand off line editor - any body know where it is. I might be being blind but can't find it on the strand site anywhere..... If anyone could help I would be very pleased... sort of need it in the next 4 hours!

Many Thanks

 

Ben

[Neil Frazer]

This has been mentioned before but here it is again.

 

The strand ofline editor for the 300 and 500 series consoles is built into the desk software. Just down load the full software from the strand site and install it. when it asks what type of install choose off line editor. be aware that as far as I am aware it will only run in a true dos environment so win XP is out.

[sam.henderson]

Neil is right about the XP thing although someone in another topic on this did point out that you can buy some software to get round this problem. For more info use the search tool!

 

Sam

[Ben P]

Thanks - managed to solve it about half an hour later. I did do a search for it before the post but could not find it anywhere!

 

Ben

[Grahame]

I think the link referred to is in this post. It's a program called HyperOS that lets you set up multiple OS's on your machine and switch between them without rebooting. Sounds like it might do the job, although it's a tad pricey. Has anyone used it with the Strand OLE? Does it work? Has anyone found any simpler way to get the OLE running under XP? At the moment I keep an older machine running Win 98SE just so that I can run the OLE.....it's very tedious! :P

 

Grahame

 

edit: Further searching has found this post about the Microsoft Virtual PC, which looks more relevant. Sells for $129, and the other contender is VM Ware, which sells for $189.

[richard_cooper]

It's not exactly running under XP but I duel boot into FreeDOS which seems to run it just fine. FreeDOS might be tricky to set up as a duel boot with windows XP though. I have also tried with emulators like dosemu and Bochs, but without any success.

[peternewman]

Hi all,

 

For those of you who keep old Windows boxes running to run the OLE on, Grahame in particular, you may find the VNC program of use, Real VNC.

 

It allows you to remotely control a computer over the network so you could access the OLE from the old computer in a window on your new computer. If you set it up to start automatically then you wouldn't even need a keyboard/mouse/monitor for the old PC. Just power it up to use it, and shut it down remotely via VNC when your done.

 

Equally if you don't have an old computer you could pick one up for about a fiver at a boot fair or computer fair.

 

Hope this is of some use to some of you.

 

PN

[propmonkey]

When I try to run the ole it says I need "tnt.dll". please done anyone have that file or know of a way around it. please email it to me propmonkey@aol.com and any other information about the ole. thank you ô¿ô

[propmonkey]

doesn anyone have some free software for a lighting polt on your pc? email propmonkey@aol.com

[paulears]

Software for a lightning polt?

[propmonkey]

im a bad typer. I ment lighting plot software. does anyone know where I can download or get a free lighting plot cad software. it would really be helpfully. I still need the "tnt.dll" file.

[richard_cooper]

I still need the "tnt.dll" file.

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I don't think you are going to get it running by finding this file. The error message must be misleading as dlls are a windows thing and this software is dos. If GeniusPro really called this dll then it would be in the software package, or at the very least could be found somewhere on a real desk.

[propmonkey]

I emailed strand they said that the ole wont run on win nt but will on win 9x. they also sais trying making a bootable disk(haevt really figured out how). im running xp so I made a ms-dos start up disk to start dos. I then proceed to load the software I get to the CRCCHECK.EXE and it says it cant find it. I know its on the disk. can any one help??

[paulears]

if you have xp or NT it won't work! You could make a dual boot partition on your pc, install 1995ish dos and then it will be fine - if you don't do this I'm pretty sure you'll have to wait till strand issue xp versions of all their software - breath holding not really recommended!

[Tomo]

A suggestion - have you tried running the OLE in Win95 compatibility mode?

I don't have a copy of the Strand OLE and can't be bothered to download to try it, but it may work.

Right-click on the executables, select 'properties', 'Compatibility' tab, and use the drop-down list.

 

Otherwise you need a true DOS boot disk - find a friend with Windows 9x and get them to make one if you can't find a copy of DOS 5 yourself.

The command-line boot disk that Windows XP makes is still Windows XP, just without the GUI.