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Apr 14^th, 2008 at 7:09pm

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my GF works @ for the Sheriff and they are upgrading the patrol cars and are getting rid of all the motorola mobile stations??? I know they are 12 volt but thats easy to get around, anyone have any luck with these?

they seem pretty sweet they are touch screen and have buttons down both sides and a speaker 7" lcd

I will try to get some more specs. but I think I could get my hands on a few dozen of these.

can you say touchbuddy?

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Reply #1 - Apr 14^th, 2008 at 9:30pm

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I got a hold of some ramline 210's which were used at home cheapo for some reason or another. I was able to load XP and use the touchscreen with touchbuddy. It works great Smiley

Im not sure what the spec are on those touchscreens but it seems like a good idea

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Reply #2 - Apr 16^th, 2008 at 5:50pm

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Reply #3 - Apr 25^th, 2008 at 11:50pm

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are touch screens even compatible with FS?

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Reply #4 - Apr 26^th, 2008 at 11:44am

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RitterKreuz wrote on Apr 25^th, 2008 at 11:50pm:

are touch screens even compatible with FS?

I think it depends on how the screen itself responds.

If it treats presses as mouse presses and not as something else, then you could click things in the cockpit using your fingers or move controls with your hand.

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Reply #5 - Apr 26^th, 2008 at 9:40pm

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I have never used toch screens, but what comes to my mind is as was saod before just to take them and figure out next. If I get them I wouldn't hesitate to replace my crt screens that I use for my glass cockpit. The other option I see is to use one of them as CDU. This saves you from the complications of building one. I am not sure about this but, there is an option (setting in one of the .ini files) that you can use touch screen for Wide FS to do different things.
Thank you, ermias

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