I have been given a Realroad digital throttle system. I believe it is an entire system. Has anyone used this system? Is it worth trying to hook up? The manual is copyright 1992, so I’m not sure this is even worth trying. Anyone have any suggestions?
John
Well I guess that nobody has heard of this system.
John
I remember this system. Long time ago I downloaded the software for it and I believe it used some sort of PC board which you put in your computer then used the software to run the train. The big todo about it was it simulated actual train behaviors. When you would set up your train you specified what kind of locomotives you have and how much horsepower along with the number of cars and such. Then when you ran the train it behaved appropriately. Sounded kind of neat but was expensive and took some time to set up. Guess if you had an old computer and some time, could be interesting.
Greg McCartney
I’ve got the board and all the extra’s for it, but I’m not sure I have the software. I’ll have to do some more research.
Thanks
John
its been 12 years so i probably wont get a reply but here goes, i have the realroad system board controllers and all and software, 2 31/2 inch disks. i had it running way back in 92 and it was excellent, the only thing you would need now is a large enough computer case to fit the board in. it had sound and everything quite nice, it would be perfect for a club enviroment.
The biggest problem today is finding a computer motherboard into which that sytem’s board can be plugged –
Back in those days computer motherboards used a totally different bus system (ISA) than the PCI bus that is in today’s computers, and most new motherboards don’t even have a slot that would be compatible.
My computer motherboard doesn’t have a floppy controller or header, no IDE header, or ISA slots – only PCI, PCI Express, and SATA.
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That’s true, computers have changed a lot. Put this system in a box and am storing it under the layout. Went with a NCE DCC system instead of trying to get this running.
Thanks