ABOUT THE TRANSITRACE SOFTWARE RELEASE VERSION 2.10 =================================================== OVERVIEW: The new TT program has lots of improvements, new functions and features. To name the most important: Improved menu handling and organization Increased screen contrast and screen colour options Category changeable inside the TT program Competitor names supported Review of older flights Test menu Help menu - Believe it or not, but lots of bugs have been removed. (And one or a few new have appeared, no doubt.) The User Manual is expanded and improved. The calibration program and its manual are now included in the package. INSTRUCTIONS: 1) Create a new folder at the top level of your home computer hard disk, named tt2: C:\tt2 2) Download the file tt070527.exe to your home computer and place it in this folder. 3) In an Explorer window, go to this folder and double click on the file tt070527. A total of 26 files will be created in the folder. 4) Open the manual ttman210.pdf by double-clicking in the file name or icon. You should have Adobe Reader installed. 5) Read this manual, make a printout, and follow the further instructions in it. 6) Run the TT program on your home computer according to the manual and try out its functions. 7) Copy the file tt070527.exe to a floppy disk to transfer it to your field computer. Create a folder on the main disk just as under 1) and 2). If you run MS-DOS, expand the file entering the file name as a command: C:\tt2>tt070527 8) Run the TT program under MS-DOS together with the sensor on the field computer to get practice. 9) Read the calibration manual ttcalman210.pdf. 10) Perform a calibration of the field computer according to this manual. EXAMPLE FILES INCLUDED: Competitor name registries: Registry File Name Description EXAMPL nnexampl.txt Silly names for practice WC06 nnwc06.txt Entry list from the World Champs 2006 GBR nngbr.txt British competitor names Contest log file: Log File Name Description 060720 tt060720.txt Log from the World Champs, 20 July, 2006 NOTE: The tt.exe and ttcal.exe files will not work on some very old PC computers. (8086 CPU and/or no math coprocessor.) Special versions are downloadable separately from the Transitrace User web site: tt86.exe and ttcal86.exe Use them in place of the tt.exe and ttcal.exe files. You can simply delete these and rename the 86 files. GOOD LUCK! Goran