[DeTomaso] program compatability question

[Thomas Tornblom]

P. Rimov skrev:
> Ok.. wife here... old lame laptop battery dead. Replacement battery not holding charge either.. Broke down and bought NEW laptop with good battery to tune fuel injection on the road..however, I can't install the holly program on the new laptop.. after many hours I have concluded that the Holly program is a 16 bit and the new laptop has windows vista 64 bit and this just won't install.. 
> 
> any computer people out there to help me get this program installed so we can get to tuning ??? any way to change vista just to get this program installed?? compatability mode didn't work, also tried to load program as backup of windows nt, but wanted to find backup program, not install program..
> 
> options at this point, really long extension cord, try to find another battery, have paul install a cigarette lighter and run converter, get a dyno for the garage, but would like to get program installed if I could.

I had the same problem with my old laptop, the battery was dead and I 
got a new laptop, a really nice MacBook Pro :-)

Naturally that won't let me run the windows based EFI tuning software, 
so I installed XP on a virtual machine. In my case I got Vmware Fusion 
as I knew the USB support in the virtual PC worked. I could probably 
have used VirtualBox as well, which is free, but the client USB support 
on Mac hosts used to be problematic and as the software I'm using is 
locked to a machine, I didn't want to have to buy it one more time in 
case theer was a problem.

You can download VirtualBox from:
http://www.virtualbox.org/

Good luck!

> 
> thanks!
> cathy
>

Cheers,
Thomas