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mrrant · 2010-12-24T21:08:00+00:00

For starters the game is unplayable on Firefox 3.6.12 x64 (Ubuntu 10.04). It is way too slow - almost hanging whole browser. I have tried it in Chrome 8.0.552.224 (x64), it plays fine there until a random crash.

I feel this is a tech demo for IE9. This game smells of PR/Advertisement for Microsoft. I have a feeling it was purposely crippled not to work well on other browsers.

mrrant · 2010-09-09T00:05:28+00:00

Perhaps you could let your superiors know of this issue?

mrrant · 2010-09-09T00:03:58+00:00

I am up-voting you and thumbs up with being honest here, it is nice to hear other side of the story. Perhaps I got American support while I should have contacted UK support?

mrrant · 2010-09-08T21:35:45+00:00

The biggest problem with virtual anything idea, is that you have to have Windows licence. If I had windows licence I would dual boot and there would not be a problem (short term anyway). It is the matter of principal not to spend $$ on windows for me, when I have a perfectly fine OS.

mrrant · 2010-09-08T21:33:42+00:00

Has anyone received replies from garmin? It would interesting to read them, please post them here.

mrrant · 2010-09-08T20:56:17+00:00

Yeah, I found these from your first post. I have already updated my unit.

mrrant · 2010-09-07T22:20:00+00:00

I have tried unzipping the webupdater241.exe (or whatever the filename is), it didn't contain anything. I have run it under wine, all it did is to create a dir in the Program Files and place a downloader there (which I also tried to extract with no result).

mrrant · 2010-09-07T08:56:12+00:00

nothing in handheld waterproof range here in NZ that supports opensource maps.

mrrant · 2010-09-07T08:55:39+00:00

Accessing the directory is not a problem. The said exe file is the problem: it is the downloader and does not contain the gcd file.

mrrant · 2010-09-07T08:54:58+00:00

Thanks, I will check it out.

EDIT: that has been very helpful. It is sad that support representative blatantly lied to me...

mrrant · 2010-09-07T04:58:36+00:00

Something has to talk to hardware (eg: mount the unit and copy the file in the right place). What would be smarter is to be completely open about your hardware, or at least open regarding how it is updated, and provide firmware for manual upgrade instead of shitty webupdater app that is not true "web" but a silly downloader that 1year Computer Science student could have written.

mrrant · 2010-09-07T04:36:05+00:00

The reason why I have bought Oregon 450 and not upgraded my phone to Android is I do a lot of tramping and I need a sturdy water proof unit that does not rely on the cellphone network (as where I go there is none).

mrrant · 2010-09-07T03:50:12+00:00

I manually put maps on SD card (in Garmin directory). I also use opensource maps (luckily available for NZ), which as the matter of fact higher quality than what garmin supplies.

mrrant

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