96RAF Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 ...Patience is a frustrating card game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDS Posted May 12, 2016 Author Share Posted May 12, 2016 29th Feb, 2017 Invalid date and will not be included (but I guess you probably knew that anyway) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishmanoz Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 I think RAF's 12th of Never should be included. He wins if Hornby announce they have abandoned it, or the company goes broke in the meantime. And please stop encouraging Hosh by replying to him. He seems to live in one of the more beautiful areas on the mid NSW coast so should be getting enough pleasure without our adding to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yelrow Posted May 13, 2016 Share Posted May 13, 2016 Just another outspoken aussie. ? fishy. Us shy guys try to remain in the shadows. As for LD, i tend to think, its like hosh,s symbol, dead. john Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishmanoz Posted May 13, 2016 Share Posted May 13, 2016 That only gets us to a count of 1 outspoken Aussie John. I am of course one of the shy retiring types, as I'm sure everyone has figured by now, and my avatar is very much alive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yelrow Posted May 13, 2016 Share Posted May 13, 2016 Your avitar from a distance looke very like a scalectric hand controller. I can fully understand, being another shy retiring type, (wallflower ) john Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishmanoz Posted May 13, 2016 Share Posted May 13, 2016 Scale yes, lectric hand no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augustus Caesar Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 Attention... Loco Detection is out there 😮 and and is being released... on... 🤔 oh hang on... dreaming again... 😳 my wife is getting worried about me...! 🤐May I add another date that I dreamt? Yes? Great... November 6th 2016... 😎 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDS Posted August 5, 2016 Author Share Posted August 5, 2016 I have just realised that I said I would post the latest table, within the next few days - 3 months ago!Apologies for that and the fact that some guesses that were valid at the time, have now expired.Here is the up to date table, with all the guesses received so far./media/tinymce_upload/6eb22578e782f01709a3560b95e115b0.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augustus Caesar Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 OK... I was the last to post on this in May with a new date but didn't realise no-one had posted after moi... What the table shows is that for at least two years we have been waiting with great patience for LD and with that the Shaolin Monks would be great admirers of our said talents for hanging on for long periods... I also note I have a greater chance of winning with three dates in line for LD to be announced... there again, it could be said that only one date can be given so only one date for each can come true and therefore all guesses are equal. Right... dunno where all that came from but at least I knew what I meant...! At least, RDS, you gave us the table after three months... whereas Hornby, after years, have still not announced a single thing with LD... so next time you will have six months before offering a table up... lol :-) Still, it'll be there somewhere in their offices... they've just gotta locate it first before they can do more with it. Thanks for the update RDS... looking forward to new dates popping in now... :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RB51 Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 Crikey I'd forgotten all about this - the table that is, not LD. Just for fun then, and as RDS is clearly bereft of duties - I'll go for 5 Oct 2016 (my bus pass birthday). R- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Surrey Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 I will go for never as my date. I suspect this will be a casualty of the streamlining of products drive consequent upon the current Hornby financial situation. I would also take a side bet on Railmaster itself being at risk though the fact that Windows 10 should remain fairly stable vis a vis Railmaster for some years may give it a reasonable shelf life in its current form. Just don't expect any significant upgrades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick_ Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 Windows 10 aniversary update has just been released by Microsoft and will be arriving on your Windows 10 PC very shortly as an automatic upgrade. There have been rumours in teccy-world that on some PCs it breaks USB connectivity, so there is a chance it could break RailMaster's connection to the E-Link/Elite again. If this happens it may well be the final nail in the coffin and may cause Hornby to pull RailMaster alltogether. I hope not, because I am still patiently waiting for LD... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishmanoz Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 So you are predicting MS will introduce a USB bug affecting every laptop/PC currently in creation and never fix it, thus condemning RM? I think not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RB51 Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 I've just installed this update and all is well. R- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St1ngr4y Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 I've just installed W10 v1607 and it has told me that it has switched on Windows Defender because Norton 360 is no longer compatible.Watch this space...Ray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RB51 Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 I got that Ray - did you check the virus definitions? Mine were over 150 days out of date. R- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick_ Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 So you are predicting MS will introduce a USB bug affecting every laptop/PC currently in creation and never fix it, thus condemning RM? I think not.Not exactly what I said. The story going around that there is a USB bug that affects some upgrades, not all. And if it exists maybe Microsoft will fix it, maybe they won't. After all, as far as I know, they have not fixed the 'bug' they introduced in Win10 that stoppedRailmaste working for a considerable number of people. It was HRMS who modified Railmaster to work around the problem instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St1ngr4y Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 I got that Ray - did you check the virus definitions? Mine were over 150 days out of date. R-i checked the version of N360 from within the program itself and it confirmed I had the latest version.Ray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augustus Caesar Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 The 'bug' as you call it that MS 'introduced' with Win 10 which 'stopped RM working' was NOT a bug which MS introduced at all. The USB driver was a generic one which, if MS added ALL the code necessary to run every piece of USB hardware, would have become bloatware as too many parameters would have been needed so all USB hardware ever created in the last five or so years would work. No sense in that.It was up to the manufacturers of the equipment being built to add code to their hardware (firmware) or drivers. That is why firmware upgrades are so easy to find and why they are in use. That is also why drivers go hand in hand with firmware updates where required. Basically, MS would NEVER have rewiritten that driver for a small piece of hardware like the eLink unit. I studied that driver when all this talk kicked off and said the only way to sort it was for Hornby to add extra firmware. Lo and behold... One thing with Windows 10 that annoys me is the fact that you literally have to EJECT a DVD or CD disk in the PC or laptop drive (this is very common and almost the biggest bug in their code). Simply pushing the button on the drive bay door does not mean Win 10 recognises the disk has been removed. Putting another disk in will not mean it will be read. The OS does not recognise the disk as being removed originally and simply does not read the second disk when it is supposed to. All one gets is the first disks content. Upon using Eject however, all functions well and correctly. So from the above paragraph I would take it the same issue arises from this problem with USB hardware. There will also be other reasons and it is most likely due to the hardware firmware or driver not being compatible with the new anniversary update of Windows generic drivers. Simple as that. As for RM being made redundant? Not likely, unless Hornby can't be bothered to update the firmware within the eLink again. It is no surprise Norton's products are now incompatible... pretty useless software really and considering Norton's relationship with Microsoft is not too good anyway it will be on Norton's head to rectify problems anyway on their lonesome. Just as has been discussed on here many times in the past it will take time for vendors to rewrite firmware once they discover where the generic MS driver has been changed and what parameters or variables are in need for compatible changes to that firmware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PJ_model_trains Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 Page 56 and still running!!! It seems to me trying to guess when Loco Deection will arrive is harder than trying to win the lottery. 🤐 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDS Posted August 6, 2016 Author Share Posted August 6, 2016 Page 56 and still running - yes PJ but most of the last 2 pages are on a completely unrelated topic.(To whoever it may concern - please raise a new thread for anything other than the LD sweep) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PJ_model_trains Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 That's it RDS, have a clean sweep. Now is that on topic or off topic. 🤔 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augustus Caesar Posted August 7, 2016 Share Posted August 7, 2016 Well, I was certainly drifting from the topic in hand in answer to another post above but only because the info was incorrect in some ways. Anyway, isn't talking of being off-topic off-topic as well? What IS the topic anyways? Oh yeah... LD and all the guesses as to when it will arrive... or not. No wonder folk are going off-topic with all this off-topic talk about being off-topic. 😎 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choralc Posted August 7, 2016 Share Posted August 7, 2016 Nov. 26th the Saturday of the Warley Show Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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