rpjallan Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 The anouncement of Bachmann's Dynamis RailController will now offer a bit of competition for RailMaster & will hopefully (maybe) speed up some bug fixes and the introduction of Loco Detection. What do you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poliss Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 I think that there's already plenty of competion out there. Some of it free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hosh Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 I wouldn't be surprised if Hornby cancelled LD altogether tbh. Straight into the too hard basket! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Ruifrok Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 Bachmann's product: same price, same specs? Don't see any programming or LD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishmanoz Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 Just another copycat, albeit better graphics. But first buy their latest Ultima controller for £250. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poliss Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 How can it be a copycat when Hornby weren't the first to release a computer programme for model railways Fishy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PJ_model_trains Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 Better Graphics!!!This is one area, as we have discussed previously, Hornby need to improve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 Not that word copycat again, not from adults. Play times over back to class. I agree with you poliss, some on here think Hornby pioneered everything. 😆 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PJ_model_trains Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 It is amazing how many companies bring something out, they think their system is special and the only one like it, 'we do it different' comes to mind. But in no time at all another company accelerates past them. It is early days for them but... Watch this space I think. The question may be, in a falling market, and both companies have had hard times, is there enough customers out there. Admitted if you can get customers using your system it increases your customer base and helps future sales. Time will tell. 🤑 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Beef Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 I have got a little disheartened with RM so much so I have bought a NCE power cab and found another program which is not disimilar to RM but works with the NCE.It does the recording like RM and it seems to be a bit more precise but at the minute you cant edit it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishmanoz Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 Not trying to imply Hornby are the pioneers, however on this Hornby forum, RM tends to be the baseline against which other systems are measured. Interesting approach from Bachmann too. Their last innovation in Bluerail seems to have gone quiet, and this one puts them firmly back in the DCC camp. Nothing like a little more competition in the market to keep things interesting though. From something like JMRI which is more flexible and capable but aimed at a more tech savvie user, through to RM and now at least 2 new very similar offerings, both with better graphics. I'm reminded of back in pre-Windows days when there were a number DOS utilities offerings, all designed to allow you to avoid using complicated DOS commands to manipulate files. They all did the same thing but looked different and a journo suggested which one you used was a religious decision, not based on logic. May well be the case here too. Especially if you consider the heat that was in the BD/LD threads a couple of months back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PJ_model_trains Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 BOTH WITH BETTER GRAPHICS!!! 😮 Hornby need to be doing more than taking note on this one, as mentioned previously, and in suggestions for future RM updates, the current screen was not designed for everything that is included now. I have been saying the loco boxes and icons are to big for two years, they reduce the layout area big time, but either HRMS do not see this as important or are to busy on other things. Although they are doing a good job, what is clear is their priorities are not our priorities, signals being a prime example. HRMS it would be nice to have a constructive response to these items, issues and in particular the suggestions, please. (See also Desirable Features for Future RailMaster updates) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PJ_model_trains Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 I'm reminded of back in pre-Windows days when there were a number DOS utilities offerings, all designed to allow you to avoid using complicated DOS commands to manipulate files. They all did the same thing but looked different and a journo suggested which one you used was a religious decision, not based on logic. May well be the case here too. Especially if you consider the heat that was in the BD/LD threads a couple of months back. Blimey... memories. MS-Dos and PC-Dos fighting foor the market! I cannot however see how a religious decision made a person choose one or the other! 🤔 What heat? What is BD and LD? Memory gone must be an age thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigskybirds Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 Do not forget DR-DOS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howbi Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 Is that anything to do with being a 'dosser'? HB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PJ_model_trains Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 Nice one howbiman 😆 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PJ_model_trains Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 We will be discussing ZX Spectrum next 😢 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howbi Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 I've still got the Texas TI-99/4A I bought in 1985....... 😎.......HB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
96RAF Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 We will be discussing ZX Spectrum next 😢I had the 48K version, then I got a Mac Performa 400 with a 40Mb (not GB) HDD. You had to swap floppies all the time as there only room to load a few at once.Now even at my age I have more memory than that old thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PJ_model_trains Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 Hi RAF96 5.25" floppys or the modern 3.5" ones LOL I started with a Tandy TRS-80 green screen computer! Then the specrum(s). Saving on a tape recorder, it sounded like a snorkel gone wrong. Then the first BBC Micro of which I purchased a second processor to make it do more and faster hehehehehehe Forgot to mention and also the Atari... some brilliant games on that. ;o) I also have more memory than the first computers but also more grey hairs. Sorry silver hairs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishmanoz Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 I started late - IBM clone, twin floppy drive, only 5 1/4 in those says. Upgraded it with a new hi tech 30Mb RLL HDD I installed myself (non RLL were only 20Mb. The RLLs proved unreliable and you could reconfigure them back to standard 20Mb when they failed and get a longer life out of them). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick_ Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 Back on track...Hornby now need to get LD out ASAP to give them an edge and a solid reason for people to chose Railmaster over Bachmann's offering. if they wait too much longer we'll have Bachman offering their own version of LD and Hornby will be behind the game instead of out front Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PJ_model_trains Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 They also need to improve the screen layout as discussed in Desirable Features for Future RM software and elsewhere. They also need to finalise the last few niggles with Train-Tech 'Signals' I think they need to get out of the way all outstanding issues and then move on. The longer they take to fix issues the more bad feedback they get, any new comer to the forum reading about long standing issues or repeated issues that are not solved could be put off from buying RailMaster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hosh Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 Can anyone remember when Hornby first announced LD and when it was first slated for release? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RB51 Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 Hornby now need to get LD out ASAP .....Only if it's ready. R- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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