Is the ECTUNE license OS Specific

b3st0fth3w0rst · Post by **b3st0fth3w0rst** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 11:43 pm

I have one laptop, but my HDD has 2 partitions, one with Vista and the other with XP. Can i use ectune on both OS with the same license? My original license was for XP, should i just re-register ectune in Vista? will the license in XP still work after?

JaredKaragen · Post by **JaredKaragen** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 2:37 am

probably it would be different. I would day use one or the other...

Post by **calvin** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:16 am

a while ago it worked. not sure if it still does.

b3st0fth3w0rst · Post by **b3st0fth3w0rst** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 11:38 am

Yea i tried it last night and it doesn't anymore, at least not for me. My original XP license works under XP no prob. but in vista the license causes a MSGID 004h error, if i remove the license from the ectune folder ectune works fine, but it's just the datalogger version. I didn't register ectune under vista though, i'll try that later.

Post by **calvin** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 2:14 pm

we won't supply 2 license for 1 user.

b3st0fth3w0rst · Post by **b3st0fth3w0rst** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 3:25 pm

So what happens if i switch from XP to Vista? I would have to re register because the XP license doesn't worn in Vista, right?

JaredKaragen · Post by **JaredKaragen** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 4:24 pm

then you have to request a new license.... I say choose one. PErsonally, it worked great on Vista... had no major issues OS related at all... just minor BS =) Depends on what you like! As soon as possible, (when .net 3.5 is supported) I will be running eCtune under WINE on Linux =B But that's me =)

malichite · Post by **malichite** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 4:29 pm

Holy crap, is it really going to .net 3.5? That would be sweet to run it under wine. Would love to dump windows off of my tuning laptop.

dr_drache · Post by **dr_drache** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 5:03 pm

have you tryed with mono yet? i think it supports a subset of .net 3.5... might be enough.

JaredKaragen · Post by **JaredKaragen** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 10:30 pm

2.0 or 2.5 is supported... never had any luck with mono... always wine. I use Fedora... nice and complete package, though things are kept in odd places. I know peeps are still working on porting 3.0 and 3.5 to wine... it just takes someone with devoted time =/

dr_drache · Post by **dr_drache** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 10:27 am

I could do it, but it will be a pain. a real pain. and to be honest not quite worth it.(yet) too many changes coming at this point. and would need access to the source, and i think the copy protection that calvin is using may NOT even work right. I use my ectune in a VM of a super stripped down XP. (virtual Box). if this issue get bigger, i'll revisit a conversion idea and get with calvin.

JaredKaragen · Post by **JaredKaragen** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 1:40 pm

no the problems are more like API issues moreover anything else.... that would be my guess (never looked at a .net dev kit)

dr_drache · Post by **dr_drache** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 3:54 pm

to be honest the only real API that we would have a problem is the security, i'm pretty sure com port access didn't change.