P38_Ireland
Well-Known Member
nope still no joy!!
Pete The Biker
Active Member
... and you still haven't answered the questions I posed over a month ago when I was trying to help you!
Pete
P38_Ireland
Well-Known Member
Hi Pete mate,
Thought I had answered them. Basically I tried everything that was recommended but still no joy. Haven't got time to keep working on it as I'm in the middle of moving house. But i will get back on the case once I've moved house.
Thanks.
Baloney999
Active Member
@mattstevenson2005:
Will Microcat work on a Mac and if so can you tell me how?
Will Microcat work on a Mac and if so can you tell me how?
redHouse71
New Member
I mounted the ISO file, installed the application and then restarted the machine. I then placed the .dll file in the nescessary folders. I copied the microlaunch.exe in the c:\MCRE folder and created the shortcut. I placed the shortcut on the desktop and added -go to the path.
When I open microcat via the shortcut the applications loads but then shows the error "Microcat could not locate the Land Rover CD-ROM in any drive". The microlaunch.exe has changed my system clock to 15 March 2010. Is thre any chance microcat is trying to verify the application online when it is loading?
When I open microcat via the shortcut the applications loads but then shows the error "Microcat could not locate the Land Rover CD-ROM in any drive". The microlaunch.exe has changed my system clock to 15 March 2010. Is thre any chance microcat is trying to verify the application online when it is loading?
Pete The Biker
Active Member
The folder name should be C:\MCLRE not C:\MCRE which should solve your "cannot find CD Rom" message.
I use Microcat CD Version March 2010, Release 2010.2.18.1 and use a .bat file to launch Microcat. This changes the system date prior to launching Microcat and then reverts it to the current date when Microcat has closed.
Copy and paste the following into Notepad (I use Windows XP, so if you don't have Notepad you need to use a text only (no formatting) file) and save as microcat.bat and save to your desktop.
set saved=%DATE%
date=01-10-06
cd c:\mclre
start mclre.exe
pause
date=%saved%
Click on this and it will open a DOS window and launch Microcat. After you have closed Microcat the window will still be there. Click in it and press any key and the system date will be changed back to the current date and the window will close. Be sure not to use other programs while the system date is wrong as everything will be datestamped wrongly.
Good luck.
Pete
I use Microcat CD Version March 2010, Release 2010.2.18.1 and use a .bat file to launch Microcat. This changes the system date prior to launching Microcat and then reverts it to the current date when Microcat has closed.
Copy and paste the following into Notepad (I use Windows XP, so if you don't have Notepad you need to use a text only (no formatting) file) and save as microcat.bat and save to your desktop.
set saved=%DATE%
date=01-10-06
cd c:\mclre
start mclre.exe
pause
date=%saved%
Click on this and it will open a DOS window and launch Microcat. After you have closed Microcat the window will still be there. Click in it and press any key and the system date will be changed back to the current date and the window will close. Be sure not to use other programs while the system date is wrong as everything will be datestamped wrongly.
Good luck.
Pete
redHouse71
New Member
Hi Pete,
Cheers for this, It is C:\MCLRE i'm using sorry must have been a typo. I'll try this.bat file and see if I have any luck. Did you mount the ISO or did you burn it to a CD? Do you have the ISO mounted while you're running the .bat?
Cheers again,
Scott
Cheers for this, It is C:\MCLRE i'm using sorry must have been a typo. I'll try this.bat file and see if I have any luck. Did you mount the ISO or did you burn it to a CD? Do you have the ISO mounted while you're running the .bat?
Cheers again,
Scott
Pete The Biker
Active Member
IIRC correctly you have to mount the .iso as a virtual drive (as if it was a physical CD), and then it auto-runs and goes to the opening screen for the install program for Microcat. This then installs the software on your harddrive in the C:\MCLRE folder. Alternatively you can burn the .iso disk image (not the file) to CD and then install from the CD. After that you don't need the .iso image or CD.
Pete
redHouse71
New Member
Yeah that's just what i've been doing, mounting the ISO and installing the application. That's why I find it strange that it's bee giving me the 'missing CD-ROM' error when I try to run it. Anyway I'll your .bat file and see if that makes any difference.
Cheers again,
Scott
Cheers again,
Scott
Pete The Biker
Active Member
redHouse71
New Member
Thanks for posting, is the microlaunch.exe in the pic a folder or the actual .exe? I have been putting the microlaunch.exe in there rather than the folder so this could be where I'm going wrong.
Pete The Biker
Active Member
That is a folder, which contains microlaunch.exe - see pic
But my .bat file starts Microcat using the mclre.exe file which is in the C:\MCLRE folder
Pete
