My Starturn 5 is DOS based (I was going to contact denford to see if there was any option they offer to upgrade the control to Windows based but I have a strong feeling this wont be possible and it would require a change to MACH3) I like denford control/software.Īnyway if you go to the dload centre and look at all the info on DOS software you will find you can dload what was the latest version of the time and run it without the dongle. You may find it easier to run a machine on XP and use the DOS feature OR run a DOS box (there has been posts on here about DOS box). Anyway, would this 'dongle' be available to buy anywhere? Or am I stuck here? In my reading of some of the documentation there is supposed to be a 'dongle'? which plugs into the back of whatever computer is being used for the system, this I cannot find anywhere, I've looked in every single box in the department and even had all the technicians, my resmat teacher, the current head of department and even got the retired head of department to help me. Correct me if i'm wrong :p (Software I found includes: MILL CAM Designer Ver2 (Floppies), CAD/CAM Achiever Student Support CD, ArtCAM MiniCAM CNC Machining Software.Īs for the big black box, I managed to find the keys to open it and one by one removed each of the control boards, cleaned them, checked all the fuses etc. There seems to be two versions of the software, one set is on floppies which I believe is designed to work on Windows 3 on wards, and there were a few CD's which I think came later and are designed for 'Windows 9x' which I would take to mean Windows 95 and 98. Hi, sorry for the late reply I didn't have any time at school yesterday to work on this so I got in today, searched around a bit and managed to find all the original documentation, student help guides, AND all the software.
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