TOMTOM / Pocket PC Emulator / RR - Page 5

theboogieman · 07-09-2005, 10:52 AM

it does support the gps but it has to be a serial type not a usb for some reason, but it will support a bluetooth gps aslong as you set up the emulator for a gps handheld

stevieg · 07-09-2005, 12:54 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by theboogieman

i've tried this today with tomtom v3 and it runs like a dream and should with most people aslong are your not running crud like EPIA boards that are only good for running 'tic tac toe' and strain with anything more than that, with my 1.5 via it only takes up 48%cpu so still able to run media car and all the other things i run on it

Yeah right.. I suppose you've tried routing in it with a Live GPS?

stevieg · 07-09-2005, 12:55 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by theboogieman

it does support the gps but it has to be a serial type not a usb for some reason, but it will support a bluetooth gps aslong as you set up the emulator for a gps handheld

It supports USB GPS' with com port emulators, which is pretty much every USB GPS out there!

theboogieman · 07-09-2005, 01:11 PM

i've used both usb and serial and only the serial worked, the usb only updated the screen about 2 times a min

SAPiens · 07-12-2005, 05:19 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by theboogieman

i've tried this today with tomtom v3 and it runs like a dream and should with most people aslong are your not running crud like EPIA boards that are only good for running 'tic tac toe' and strain with anything more than that, with my 1.5 via it only takes up 48%cpu so still able to run media car and all the other things i run on it

Cool, I'll try it as soon as I'm back from holiday. Off to curacao for a few weeks.

00christian00 · 07-18-2005, 06:10 AM

I don't know what is your problem guys,but it take 30-40 sec to calculate a long route on a celeron d 2.4 ghz and about 10 sec for a short route.
That is with tom tom 5.

stevieg · 07-18-2005, 06:46 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by 00christian00

I don't know what is your problem guys,but it take 30-40 sec to calculate a long route on a celeron d 2.4 ghz and about 10 sec for a short route.
That is with tom tom 5.

Yeah, is that normal? If you're used to MapPoint's 3-4 seconds and Destinator's near instant makes it feel like an age, especially if you auto-re-route.

00christian00 · 07-19-2005, 07:34 PM

Well,it would not be normal,but hell if that is not usable!
Were are you going in such a hurry,not even taxi do need faster times

stevieg · 07-20-2005, 07:06 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by 00christian00

Well,it would not be normal,but hell if that is not usable!
Were are you going in such a hurry,not even taxi do need faster times

OK, you miss a turn by accident or decide you don't want to go that was as it looks congested.. You don't want to wait 30 seconds for it to re-route..

Either way, I'm not gonna sit there for 30 seconds waiting for it just to generate a new route when I could be doing something better!

triplese7en · 08-05-2005, 01:23 PM

Hello guys,

You may have already answer to this question (perhaps) ? But i didn't found any information about placing the maps for TomTom. When i open the program on the emulator everything works fine but at the end he tells me he didn't found the maps. So i would like to know where i should place those maps. Can somebody tell me how to do it.

Greetz from Belgium

Nicolas

gui4242 · 08-16-2005, 04:00 PM

fine can you explain the process for install tomtom guenine or cracked version

i an run he emulator (cradle it with emulator manager ) some problem with async , but definitly can't run tomtom aplication on ppc device

how do you manage it please ? b rgds gui4242

Quote: Originally Posted by ctwizard

Well ladies and gents

It seems that the pda emulator and the tomtom version 5 software works. Picks up the USB GPS RECEIVER as long as the emulator is configure to COM3 Serial Port 0 (Or what ever com port your usb device is) and then in TOMTOM configure for OTHER NMEA DEVICE and select Serial Com port 1

Works like a charm

Thanks to all

Nebs · 08-16-2005, 07:12 PM

To everyone who worked on this and made TomTom possible on a PC - THANKS!

Nebs

Power_nisse · 09-07-2005, 01:16 PM

Well i tried map monkey and was not happy with it. it did not go as smooth as for my friend who have a "Acer PPC N35" with TomTom5.
Tom Tom 5 is the best looking, best features and smothest GPS program i have seen.

Its a shame the Emulator takes so much CPU but im gonna try this anyway

BTW: How the h*ll do i get this "The guest ID" on "https://beta.microsoft.com"

crankshaft · 09-30-2005, 05:08 AM

OK, I have downloaded and installed ths simulator, and after a few hours of figuring out how the emulator config / command line parameters working, I have it running quite well, but I am using a localized map for Singapore which is much smaller than for the UK so speed is probably better.

I only get excessive processor usage when doing a WM cold boot, if you setup and use a .dess file and create a shortcut to it then it's surprisingly fast. It would be good to be able to strip out the excess WMsim code from the .dess file, and that would make it even faster.

I also have mine configured with the map data copied to the WMsim my documents folder which means that the .dess file has grown by the size of the map, and since it looks like this .dess file is a database file which holds all of the O/S and data files, it could be made quicker by mapping a 'REAL' folder with the map and possibly the application on it.

I am going to test it running the map embedded into the .dess file as well as having the map data on a real drive.

Cheers

PeterC

roadhog · 09-30-2005, 11:38 AM

It sounds good.
I've tried other software with uk maps (Mappoint, iGuidance and Destinator) but Tom Tom seems to be the best all round IMO. Not to knock the excellent work by NM with Map Monkey.
I can't get my version of TTN to install on the emulator because the machine ID is different to my PPC and the activation fails... No doubt I'll get round this soon.

Good luck with your testing

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