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Old February 29th 20, 07:40 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Tom BravoMike
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Default Old EW Avionics Model B file (.ewt) conversion to .igc

On Saturday, February 29, 2020 at 4:00:05 AM UTC-6, Tim Newport-Peace wrote:
I have a put copy at www.newportpeace.co.uk/temp/CONV-EWA.EXE

As Paul says, it has has problems because it wants Full-Screen mode and it
is a 16-bit program and won't run on a on a 64-bit PC.

Both these problems can be solved by running under DOSBOX.

I have written notes on using DOSBOX for these 16-bit programs at:
http://www.ukiws.demon.co.uk/GFAC/do...ithout_DLL.pdf

Share and enjoy!


At 08:13 29 February 2020, Paul Candler wrote:
I had the same problem some years ago, and found a copy of the
CONV-EWA utility. I think it was on the old EW (not EWavionics)
website, which is no longer there, not sure if it's available anywhere
else.

It's an old MS-DOS program, and it won't run on my 64-bit Windows7
PC, but luckily I had an old laptop kicking around that it would run on
and I converted all of my flights. I can send a copy if you like.


At 22:20 28 February 2020, Tom BravoMike wrote:
I used it in the 1990s and still have a nice collection of flight logs
which I cannot open to watch in the modern software. Don't have the

old
EWView program. Anyone can help? Thanks in advance ...




Thanks, Tim (and everyone who responded). The conv-ewa.exe file was what I was looking for and couldn't find. Now that I've got it, as I am a lucky owner of an old Toshiba laptop with Win98 system and broken both USB port and CD drive, I'm trying to find a way to transfer the files to the laptop and launch them. I will let you know when I succeed with the ewt-to-igc conversion, as there is one particular flight from 1997 I'm very curious to look at, my shortest ever non-crash landing/roll-out on approx. 10 meters in a PW-5.