Thanks, Bob. Since it's raining there's no hurry. Seemed like a good time to soup up the "Energizer" win98 ;-) Thank you for your quick reply. I'll post back how it went. Tom

tucstargzr wrote: Unfortunately not. We all got together about a year ago and decided that we'd not support 95, 98, and Me. My suggestion is to go with Platform 4.1, which is still at

Bob, Is there a version that works with Win98? Doing a first time installation I made it up to the specific AP driver 4.1.25, and rec'd an error message "need NT or later". Everything else was

Daniel Verschatse wrote: No, don't bother with that. It's correct. I promise I checked that installer on several systems (2K, XP, Vista) before posting it... Well, to get you going I have built a

Hi all, We had a break in the rain and snow here in the pacific northwet, so it was time for my yearly attempt at objects in Orion. Naturally, the moon was full, but that is just plain not allowed to

tom@... writes: That is an excellent image. Huge field and very good resolution. Rolando ************** Biggest Grammy Award surprises of all time on AOL Music.

Hi Bob, Thanks for the prompt reply. I looked into Regedit and it indeed gives 5.0 for the platform Version on the second line. There are two more lines: (Default) REG SZ (Value not

Bob, Thanks for the reply, but I'm good. I'm on 4.1 and not trying to install anything from ASCOM web site - I got my 4.1.25 driver from Ray's site last month (and only did so to get PEMPro v2

ancient.sull wrote: Very old news, and no longer true. All drivers listed on the new ASCOM site come with their own installers that do everything for you. No. You never have to even look into the

hewholooks wrote: Do not do this now. The file is now a real installer. Double-click it to install. This should only happen to drivers that have never been used. If a driver existed from the old 4.1

Chris Curran wrote: Yes, my mistake. I am sorry! I dod SO MUCH over the last couple of weeks to get the whole new ASCOM site and Platform going... I just missed this. I thought the file Ajai sent was

Daniel Verschatse: If you know how, look in the registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ASCOM In the right hand pane of RegEdit, look for the PlatformVersion. Is it 5.0? Is should be after

I received the same message - ________________________________ From: ap-gto@... [mailto:ap-gto@...] On Behalf Of Daniel Verschatse Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 3:41

Hi Bob, When trying to install the new installer AstroPhysics(4.1.25)Setup.exe (426kb) on my Ascom 4.1, I got an error message saying "The ASCOM Platform 5 is required for this driver". So, with some

Ok, thanks Bob! -Ray

Me: Done. The download from the ASCOM Download Center now consists of a proper installer for the driver, instead of the driver EXE itself. It will do everything needed (including the DCOM stuff needed

install the platform's Oh, geeze, I forgot that the package Ajai gave me was just the driver executable. I'll make up a proper installer for this driver now and post when I have updated it on the

Until I have released the new AP ASCOM driver you will need to install the ASCOM 4.1 platform first, then copy the 4.1.25 AP driver over the platform's version. You can get the 4.1 platform, old AP

Just a followup on this theory of mine. From another group, Bob Denny of the ASCOM initiative confirmed the need to go into the "Properties" menu the first time a new driver is used - he

wrote: driver. official The issue is that an ASCOM driver needs to be installed in order to set various registry settings etc. All the other downloadable drivers are really setup executables which