# Wednesday, March 01, 2006
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Long story made short: There is a new version of Modern Ballistics available here.

Long story made long:  As many of you know I wrote the exterior ballistics program Modern Ballistics.  I had the free demo require a license to be updated once a month by contacting server which kept track of how many computers were using the demo.  The user interface to the server had a limit of 100 computers using any copy of the software at a time.  It turned out that more than 100 people were using the demo in a month and new users couldn't test out the software.  This happened just as I moved everything to a new computer and was in the middle of converting my code to use a new compiler.  I had deleted the old compiler off the old computer and I had no way to fix the problem people were having.  Last night (early this morning actually) I got the new build of the program tested.  To get things out quicker I just made the demo not require connecting to the server at all.  Then I had to update the installation process and test it.  Then I had to update the website.  I finished up about 0200 this morning.  Download the latest version here.

Let me know if you run into any bugs. The testing was rather "thin".  In particular I am concerned about it working on various operating systems.  I only tested it on Windows XP and XP-x64.  I have a Win98 and Win95 available at home but I'm not home now.  Send an email to bugs@modernballistics.com if you notice something broken.  Thanks.

Wednesday, March 01, 2006 8:00:41 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Installs fine, but when I try to run it, I get this error:
"This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem."
Reinstalling did not fix the problem. I am running Win XP Home with SP2.
JuryRig
Saturday, March 04, 2006 11:08:01 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
I got the same error on two systems:

1: P4 2.4GHz, 1GB RAM, XP Pro w/ SP2
2: Pentium M 2GHz, 1GB RAM, 2003 Server Std, SP1

Sunday, March 05, 2006 6:50:46 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Please download the new installation package and try again. I'm not sure what is going on in your case but I just made some changes that will fix some other peoples problems and perhaps yours too.

Let me know what the result is.

Thanks.
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