I don't know if you can say that "they got away with that." 2000i was an unmitigated disaster for Omega. I actually thought at the time that they might go under. As Syswizard pointed out, they basically had to throw everything out and start from scratch.
Well guys...this is software and this is complex stuff. TS2000i was over a million lines of code....a million components to deal with so-to-speak. I think what happened here is this: the original developers took some heat from the bugs, got "dinged" by the Cruz bros....then got PO'd and then LEFT THE COMPANY. That's when they called in a consultant who went : "Omigosh, you guys are in trouble !!". This is a common scenario in silicon valley. Word to the wise: don't PO your developers...even if they make mistakes.
Yikes!! I helped a friend-of-a-friend install it on his Win 7, but not to really run it - just to access old code in the editor so he could cut-n-paste to ASCII files. The charting part ran fine though after the install (I checked). I don't recall having much problem installing it, though it was maybe a year or more ago. It was Win 7 Pro or Ultimate 64bit I think - but that has retro-XP built into it anyway, so you should be able to run it in XP mode if needed. I had admin rights to his box while I did the install. I remember patching it with upgrade files to get it to it's last iteration. Damn thing wouldn't erase setup files automatically, so I had to keep going in after every patch and cleaning out the local temp directory.
Hmmm, am thinking of installing under W7 even though TS2k itself will run under w32 emulation and access 3.xGB max (coz I understand if running multiple programs having more than 4GB can be utilised at the OS level? i.e if you had 3 W32 progs using 3.XGb each and you had 12GB RAM installed it would be able to run them with full RAM each right? . Reason for persevering with TS2000i? It is the only way I can scan in excess of 5000 symbols (by using Yahoo data). eSignal feed max is 2500 and Yahoo is also free. It is a difficult tempermental program that takes maybe 2 years to learn to use and I'm talking just the program not Easylanguage. So far there are two issues I need to work around and just have not been able to work around. 1) I need radarscreen to sort by time of alert so most recent go to the top - everybody say's you can but so far I havn't been able to. Same applies to the alerts window which I tried using as a substitute 2) Set up real time alerts so that an alert only triggers once and then triggers no more - as it is it triggers repeatedly - people have sent me elegant code solutions that I have looked at and logically thought should work but when implemented didn't. Third party applications such as 'alert once' and maybe Hyperorder have a finite capacity and can't handle 5000 symbols in Radarscreen. Thanks to Syswizard for effortlessly suggesting some workarounds previously to stuff that had me stumped. Also many similar thanks to M in the land where the Chinese are buying all the farms, I hope he is reading. Note: Multicharts can't combine historical and RT Yahoo data the way TS with Hyperserver can. Otherwise I would make the switch. One other benefit - fire up the computer Man am and TS2K is the same - nobody has changed things over the weekend.
Can that access and combine (neo) RT and historical data from Yahoo? Another reason if it can is I just don't want another learning curve right now i.e converting easylanguage to Amibroker language
Coz as far as I can tell it does not integrate historical data and streaming data. I am all ears if I am wrong but from: http://www.amibroker.com/guide/h_amiquote.html It seemingly doesn't whereas TS2K with hyperserver is like and esignal or bloomberg - continuously updates the chart from Yahoo streaming data. I am doing [neo] realtime scanning with radarscreen so downlaoding historical data and snapshots does not compare.
Did you attempt to contact MC's tech support about this ? They've got version 7 out now....and I'd be surprised if it could not do this. Also, I'm wondering about RT Yahoo data.....you pay $50/month for it ? How's the reliability ? Speed ?
Sys, Seems MC 7 still does not Re Yahoo data I am using free 15+ minute delayed data which works for what i am doing. No symbol limit and the 5000 stocks I scan would cost me $700++/month with esignal. Chump change to ET'ers I know, but when your stocks are going nowhere and the fixed costs are still there... There are limitions - I am using it for daily stocks to find stocks that I think will move up 200%+ over a period of days/weeks/months first off no bid/offer vol with Yahoo/Hyperserver Secondly incomplete data with a lot of stocks (download historical every now and then to keep charts accurate) The way it works is that it polls the Yahoo web page for the last quote - maybe uses multiple threads but basically it will go through the 5000 stocks one web page at a time, the speed at which it does this is primarily a function of the speed of your internet connection - so you get a snapshot effectively updated at the speed it goes through the list. So, it is really a daily download equivelent - if you are worried about missing a tick, not for you, if you are screening stocks on a daily timeframe for LT moves it's basically OK despite the imitations - sometimes that 15 minute delay can save you from buying into a 1 day sucker spike. Cost is I think 100-150 EUR and I have just found out they do a Yahoo symbol loader which I bought for 100 EUR to avoid having to enter symbols into Globalserver manually - I know there is a way to enter 1000 at a time apparently but not sure how.