I own a copy of Leap 4.5 including a physical dongle which connects to a pc serial port. I haven't run it in many years, but so far as I know it will still run on an old pc I own that has a serial port for the dongle.
I am concerned that in the future I may no longer be able to run this program if the dongle fails of if my old pc towers fail & I can't find a pc with a serial port or some way to add a serial port to a newer pc.
I know that the creator of Leap, Chris Strahm, is no longer with us and that no company appears to be selling any version of Leap anymore.
So, I wonder if there is anyone who may have a copy of the source code and/or a version of Leap that no longer requires a dongle to run??? If you know of anyone who might, please give me the contact info and I will contact him.
I may try to get my copy of Leap running in a virtualbox virtual machine running windows xp if I can get it to recognize the dongle and if I am lucky, I may be able to keep a copy of Leap that will forever run inside virtualbox since I do remember that if I start Leap with the dongle present, I can remove the dongle once the welcome screen is shown and Leap would forever after run fine with no dongle plugged in and therfore if I can essentially take a snapshot of Leap at that point inside a virtual machine and save that state in a file I can always load in the future inside the virtual machine, I ought to be good to go. But I have no idea right now if I can get that scheme to work.
I have not run Leap in a long time and it is for now stored away, but I do remember that Leap would model a lot of things such as mutual impedance between drivers and ports, nonlinear magnetic behavior near xmax, nonlinear behavior of the compliance, nonlinear behavior of voice coil inductance, and voice coil heating under strong loads, losses in the box/ports/etc, etc.
Will Vituix do any or all of that too?
Is there anything of major importance that Vituix does that Leap did not do?
Are there any other woofer/subwoofer enclosure design programs that are as good as and as complete as Leap was that I could also consider using for low frequency enclosure design?
Thanks very much for any help you can provide.
I am concerned that in the future I may no longer be able to run this program if the dongle fails of if my old pc towers fail & I can't find a pc with a serial port or some way to add a serial port to a newer pc.
I know that the creator of Leap, Chris Strahm, is no longer with us and that no company appears to be selling any version of Leap anymore.
So, I wonder if there is anyone who may have a copy of the source code and/or a version of Leap that no longer requires a dongle to run??? If you know of anyone who might, please give me the contact info and I will contact him.
I may try to get my copy of Leap running in a virtualbox virtual machine running windows xp if I can get it to recognize the dongle and if I am lucky, I may be able to keep a copy of Leap that will forever run inside virtualbox since I do remember that if I start Leap with the dongle present, I can remove the dongle once the welcome screen is shown and Leap would forever after run fine with no dongle plugged in and therfore if I can essentially take a snapshot of Leap at that point inside a virtual machine and save that state in a file I can always load in the future inside the virtual machine, I ought to be good to go. But I have no idea right now if I can get that scheme to work.
I have not run Leap in a long time and it is for now stored away, but I do remember that Leap would model a lot of things such as mutual impedance between drivers and ports, nonlinear magnetic behavior near xmax, nonlinear behavior of the compliance, nonlinear behavior of voice coil inductance, and voice coil heating under strong loads, losses in the box/ports/etc, etc.
Will Vituix do any or all of that too?
Is there anything of major importance that Vituix does that Leap did not do?
Are there any other woofer/subwoofer enclosure design programs that are as good as and as complete as Leap was that I could also consider using for low frequency enclosure design?
Thanks very much for any help you can provide.