1225ls software

[jbecraft]

i got the program in, i knew i would have issues with win7 and win10, thought i saw a work around, but i can't seem to find it again...

[JohnE]

I have not seen it work in 7 or 10

[Lscott]

I found the following posts elsewhere that might help you.

 

"f this is still of interest to anyone, I just used a full day in trying to program one of these. Finally, W7 or its XP mode did not work in any guise or compatibility mode. The only way I got this Ver. 3 program to work was to install a virtual Windows 95. Even then, only the serial port -based Chinese RIB worked, my RIBless USB-to-RJ45 did not work even if Win95 recognized it. This took a day to learn on my own cost. Microsoft changed their understanding of RS232 communication in DOS 4.1 and again in abandoning the DOS kernel in XP, this is how I try to comfort myself.
My lament is that when my Dell 5100 laptop wears out, programming of many 'legacy' telephone exchanges and radios etc. that only accept DOS operating system -based programming software becomes challenging."

 

"Get version 4.0. Although I havent tried it with Windows 7, it works just fine on Windows 98 and XP."

[Lscott]

Here is another post.

 

"The last release of 1225 for conventional and 1225LS for trunking available on MOL both work with Windows XP but will NOT work with XP 64bit or any flavor of Windows 7 (and probably Vista if anyone is foolish enough to own that OS). You can, and I do, run every legacy version of Motorola software except DOS versions in an XP virtual machine on Windows 7 and they work just fine.

You need the last release of both LS and regular, earlier versions won't do it. I do this for a living where time is money and radios have to work every time. Trust me.

If you need to retain DOS compatibility there are literally hundreds of very nice laptops, including Toughbooks on broken-stolen-radios.com (ebay) that will do what you need for under $100. Dedicate a laptop, format it for DOS 6.22 and be done with it. This is why when local hams need their Syntor X9000s programmed they know where to come, I have the correct gear, and it works."

 

[WRAK968]

1225 Ver 4 WILL work on XP set up as a VM. Its a bit of a pain to do if your not well versed with computers. I found it was much easier to, and you may be better off this way, purchase a cheap xp or 98 laptop and loading the software on there to do your radio work. That way you dont have to do all the stuff to get the VM running and hoping all the updates are there to allow it to access all the ports on your computer and such.

[wqzw301]

Check bluemax49er store on ebay.. He might have a usb boot to DOS and a cable with a fdic chip for port driver...

Might need to download dos box also.

I worked around the problem by buying a cheep used comp on ebay that had widows xp 64 bit... I have like 5-6 Motorola programs running on it now for mobiles and ht's

[Lscott]

The problem with a virtual machine is only the Pro versions of Windows 7 has the necessary features. Same with Windows 10.

 

If you have the Home versions then you need to install a 3’rd party virtual machine manager. There is an excellent open source, free, you can down load called VirtualBox. I’ve run Windows 3.11 on DOS, Win98SE, Win NT4, Win2000, WinXP, Win7 Pro and Win10 Pro in it. I’ve also ran several versions of Linux too and one of the last releases of IBM’s Warp4 OS. All worked.

 

https://www.virtualbox.org/