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does anyone know if waris rss will work on windows vista?
has anyone tried it?

i dont wanna burn up a good radio

If it is RSS, the answer is NO. RSS REQUIRESpure DOS. If the software is CPS, your best bet is to check with Motorola. They probably haven't had time to check all of the CPS software with Vista.

RSS will not work under ANY version of Windows, period.

This is because Windows controls the serial port.

The RSS wants to directly control the serial port.

This creates a conflict which results in corrupted data.


Run the RSS under Windows and radios become expensive bricks.


Elroy

Wait, whoa, back up.

There is no Waris RSS. Waris (ProRadio) is only available in CPS flavors. So far, it is only officially supported under XP.

RSS, DOS only. But, again, no Waris RSS.

Well, being the fact that there IS no such thing as Waris RSS, only CPS, I think the poster was using RSS as a generic term. We generally use that term generically for software for ALL brands of radios.

And we have never tried Vista at all yet, SP1 isn't even out

just to make a point, because I can,

there is one, and only 1 version of RSS that is designed to run under windows.

That is Radius 1225 series, and with it, only version 4.0 will work with XP.

Quantar/Quantro/Astro tac (RVN5002) is still RSS and has to run under windows.
Works fine on XP and Windows 2000

I'm running a copy of Vista on my machine, the MTS2000 CPS runs flawlessly on it.

Ugh, the command prompt in Win95/98 suffices just fine for almost all versions of RSS.

Elroy Jetson wrote:RSS will not work under ANY version of Windows, period.

This is because Windows controls the serial port.

The RSS wants to directly control the serial port.

This creates a conflict which results in corrupted data.


Run the RSS under Windows and radios become expensive bricks.


Elroy

There are more versions of RSS that are unsafe to run under Windows machines than there are safe ones. Even with the command prompt being nominally workable in some cases, unless it's proven that it's safe for a given radio, I will not chance turning an expensive and useful radio into
a brick when it's still not THAT hard to find an old laptop that's definitely safe for programming radios.


I've never bricked a radio yet. Nor have I ever used anything faster than
a Pentium processor based machine to program a radio though I have used up to a PII to READ radios, with the exception being only the later DOS versions of the Astro RSS. I read and programmed my Astros with a PII
in that case, from the DOS prompt. And then I switched to CPS, but
frankly, the earlier versions of CPS weren't a step forward as far as I
was concerned, compared to the equivalent DOS versions.


CJ

I am so sorry for fat fingers.....IT IS CPS not RSS

TWL911 wrote:just to make a point, because I can,

there is one, and only 1 version of RSS that is designed to run under windows.

That is Radius 1225 series, and with it, only version 4.0 will work with XP.

To correct this point, because I can:

The MTR2000 is also designated as RSS and is obviously designed to run under Windows as well. Current version works on all platforms up to XP.

As far as what's needed to run DOS RSS programs, one just needs to refer to the Motorola Pentium Compatibility Matrix to see what can be generally expected to work with newer computers, and what can't.

Todd

wavetar wrote:The MTR2000 is also designated as RSS and is obviously designed to run under Windows as well. Current version works on all platforms up to XP.

The same is true of the Quantar "RSS", if memory serves.