Traveller Navigator still around?

[LeperColony]

I was fishing through my TNE stuff and I noticed an ad for software called Traveller Navigator. Anyone have it? Does it still work? Can it be run on modern computers?

Also, I seem to recall that there used to be official software that had a few subsectors, maybe even sectors, that you could navigate that showed pre and post collapse values and stuff. What was it called again?

 

[FreeTrav]

I have TN somewhere; it could be made to almost work on XP (some functionality failed abjectly but cleanly), but it is a 16-bit program based on early WinHelp and thus absolutely nonfunctional on Windows 7. If you set up a virtual PC running Windows 98, you might be able to get it working.

FWIW, it was pure Classic-era, non-editable data.

 

[shield]

It works on my Vista. TN is on the web somewhere along with the info for Old expanses, diaspora and spinward marches

 

[BytePro]

http://www.freelancetraveller.com/infocenter/swlist/winprogs.html

Though its a bunch of EXE's, it can probably be extracted (i.e. zip format exe) for the winhelp files, which might work better even on Vista. Win7 offers winhelp32 - but it probably won't work with those (if they were Win 3.1 they are pre-Winhelp 4 and only compatible with 16-bit WinHelp, IIRC). Win7 pro offers XP Mode, but Home version doesn't.

 

[FreeTrav]

It works on my Vista. TN is on the web somewhere along with the info for Old expanses, diaspora and spinward marches

Vista hadn't completely decommitted from 16-bit support; the reason that Seven did - according to some unofficial statements from MS-ers in the know - was because attempting to maintain 16-bit compatibility played hell with the stability of some of the new features (and that 16-bit compatibility was why Vista was such a load of <redacted> compared to XP).

XP Mode on Seven Professional/Ultimate/Enterprise, being a VM running genuine XP, supports 16-bit programs as well as XP did.