Tomtom on the desktop

LiveLifeGoJump · Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 8:29 pm Post subject: Tomtom on the desktop

Are their any plans to allow users to run Tomtom Nav5 on a desktop computer as this would give us a more user friendly environment to work on when planning & checking routes.

I can do this with Memory Map software & it makes life so much easier.

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ispartacus75 · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 06, 2005 Posts: 54

Not the best solution but I believe there is an emulator for PPC 2003 that lets you run PPC apps on a desktop.

Not sure where to look fro this, try googling it

LiveLifeGoJump · Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 9:16 pm Post subject:

alix776 · Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 9:21 pm Post subject:

tomtom navigator is only desinged to run on pocket pc devieces but........
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lbendlin · Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 10:11 pm Post subject:

...I can confirm that it runs nicely on the new Device Emulator. The only caveat right now is that you need a serial/USB GPS receiver. The emulator doesn't work with BT receivers.

You can even beef up the display size to 600x800
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MrT · Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 6:36 am Post subject:

Which emulator and where can I find it?

vlak · Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 7:22 am Post subject:

MarkHewitt · Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 8:52 am Post subject:

I tried installing that once about a year ago. After 3 hours of trying to compile the various dependancies I gave up!

Is it any better now?

MrT · Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 9:00 am Post subject:

That one requires the PPC2003 SDK and C++ (250MB download) to be installed. I was hoping for a simple program that just emulated rather than all the development options.

MarkHewitt · Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 9:28 am Post subject:

Just installed it now and it works :D .
Even managed to connect to it via ActiveSync.

I installed TomTom3 but couldn't install a map as there wasn't enough space. Anyone know how I can get a virtual CF card for my imaginary pocketpc? :P

lbendlin · Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 12:49 pm Post subject:

File > Configure > Shared Folder
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MarkHewitt · Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 1:37 pm Post subject:

Looks great. Been playing with it for a while. Tried to install TomTom3, the install went okay and then I ran it and the wizard process came up.. at which point it froze up, soft reset didn't fix it so had to hard reset and of course it's all gone.

LiveLifeGoJump · Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 1:55 pm Post subject:

lbendlin · Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 5:08 pm Post subject:

you don't need a receiver.
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amcluesent · Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 11:14 pm Post subject:

>runs nicely on the new Device Emulator<

I'm surprised, I thought TT used their own low-level code to handle screen display etc. and the emulator only trapped Windows CE API calls. I guess they've modelled the h/w too, as per VMWare.

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