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RaceSail will operate on all Windows platforms, 95, 98, 200, ME, NT, XP and Vista; Mac in emulation mode, tested with Virtual PC by Connectix. The current version is 1.2-41. Download the zip file and read the readme.txt file that can be seen when you open the file with WinZip. You are encouraged to join the RaceSail mailing list so that we can tell you when there is a newer version. There is a RaceSail User group for feed back and discussion. Look at the FAQ file. The documentation is in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format and was created using version 5.0. Earlier Reader versions may give a Fonts Missing message. You can freely update the reader from the following URL: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.
NOTE: Two users have reported an error when executing the "Setup.exe" file
that installs the program. The message is: "A.dll required for this
installer package to complete is missing. Please contact your administrator."
According to Microsoft it was a problem with the original version of Visual
Studio 2005 and should be fixed with the release version 41. If this
problem still occurs, please contact the author at emitchell@ieee.org. A zipped
up folder can be sent separately.
The size of the install .zip file has doubled since switching to use Microsoft's Installer package. It now has to contain a separate installer for a Win95 derived OS (98, ME) and an NT derived OS (2000, XP, Vista). The racesail.exe file is still less than 1300KB. To fit in with Microsoft's installer policy and some dll files requires the other 5MB! If there is any difficulty with downloading the .zip file, contact the author for a copy of the RaceSail folder after installation which comes to 2.8MB, most of which is the help files and system .dlls that now get their own copy - a new Microsoft policy to get around what is commonly called dll-hell. |