Scale Auto 35 yr DVD question

[thatz4u]

Can anyone tell me if this will work with Windows 10?  is it a pdf file? any problems???? thanks for the help...

[maxwell48098]

I've got one and it works fine on Win 10 & 11.  These are pdf files, and the best way to use it is to install the content on your PC, if your hard drive has the space, rather than putting the DVD in when you want to look at specific articles/columns.

[thatz4u]

23 minutes ago, maxwell48098 said:

I've got one and it works fine on Win 10 & 11.  These are pdf files, and the best way to use it is to install the content on your PC, if your hard drive has the space, rather than putting the DVD in when you want to look at specific articles/columns.

how much space will it need? will you have to be online to use it??

Edited November 18, 2022 by thatz4u

[tim boyd]

19 hours ago, maxwell48098 said:

I've got one and it works fine on Win 10 & 11.  These are pdf files, and the best way to use it is to install the content on your PC, if your hard drive has the space, rather than putting the DVD in when you want to look at specific articles/columns.

Mine works fine on Windows 10.  Copied it to the hard drive of my prior desktop, for the new desktop I just insert the disc and play it from there. 

Good to hear it works on Windows 11 as it looks as though at some point, I will have to succumb to doing that upgrade....TB 

[Engine 51]

How does one acquire one of those?

[maxwell48098]

On 11/18/2022 at 1:32 PM, thatz4u said:

how much space will it need? will you have to be online to use it??

Checked my PC and the contents for the whole DVD is 7.71GB  Like other programs, it is all on the PC and you don't need to be on-line.  It's totally stand alone.  I also have the 5 Year Collection 2014-2018, but it is just data and has to be searched manually once you open it.  I got both of these DVDs when Kalmbach was having a sale.  They currently show both DVDs available and on sale.  https://kalmbachhobbystore.com/catalog/videos?page=4

Hope this helps,

 

A.J.

[Engine 51]

A.J. Thanks for the direction on where to get those, just ordered both. 

[flashman1957]

Just a heads-up for those like me that prefer Apple Mac computers.

The following magazine archive DVD's from Kalmbach DO NOT work on Macs using the MacOS 10.15 "Catalina" or newer version operating systems. The Kalmbach web pages for these DVD-ROMs do clearly state these two DVD's are not compatible with MacOS 10.15 Catalina or newer:

• Scale Auto: First 35 Years 1979-2013 DVD-ROM
• FineScale Modeler: 25-Year Collection 1982-2007 DVD-ROM

But the following magazine archive DVD's DO work on MacOS 10.15 Catalina or newer operating systems:

• Scale Auto: 5-Year Collection 2014-2018 DVD-ROM
• FineScale Modeler: 10-Year Collection 2008-2017 DVD-ROM

I found this out the hard way when my 10-year old iMac died a couple years ago, and I had to buy a new iMac that came with MacOS 10.15 Catalina pre-installed. Imagine my surprise when I was unable to install the SA: First 35 Years and FSM: 25-Year archives on the new computer. That was many years of magazines I no longer could access.

To say I was p***ed is putting it mildly. ?

At the NNL North model show this past May, FineScale Modeler was there to photograph models for the magazine, so I asked whether there was any chance that the incompatible DVD archives might get updated to work on newer Macs, since the second DVD volumes for both magazines did work. My thinking was that since they already had the necessary compatible programming created for the volume two DVD's, that it should be fairly easy to migrate the older magazine archives into the new compatible programming. But he explained that the software developer said they would charge Kalmbach nearly as much to upgrade the archives as the original DVD programming had cost, and that Kalmbach's management decided the programming cost was just too high for them to justify.

Because I really wanted to be able to access the old magazine archives (and also still use some older apps that also do not work on 10.15 or later), I was lucky to find an inexpensively priced older iMac (but still newer model than my old one that had died) running MacOS 10.13 "High Sierra", and I am now able to run the magazine archives and other older apps on that Mac. But not everyone will be able to justify doing what I did because they love the Mac. But I considered it worth doing.

Oh well... , the downsides of computer technology progress. Apple finally decided it was time to cut support for the old legacy 32-bit programming for it's OS and apps, and use all newer 64-bit programming beginning with 10.15 Catalina. But they gave years of advance warning that this was coming, and I still don't understand why the first two magazine archive DVDs were programmed using 32-bit only.

Cameron

Edited November 25, 2022 by flashman1957

[Bugatti Fan]

Maybe a cheap second-hand Windows Laptop or Netbook might be the answer if the CD roms are compatible.

Edited November 25, 2022 by Bugatti Fan