Hello,
I'm a new pronto owner and am having problems getting prontoedit to recognize pronto. I'm a Mac guy so I always try to use something I'm familiar with...so, I tried virtual PC 2.0 on a Rev. A Imac running 8.5 and a Belkin USB to serial adapter. Pronto edit and the emulator work fine but when I try to connect to pronto it advises that it can't connect and the "details box" says it opened com port 1 and pronto didn't respond, and com port 2 is in use by another device. After trying all my Mac tricks I gave up and went to a Windows machine here at work. It's running NT4.0 and has at least 2 un-used com ports in the back.
In the control panel, under "ports"...it shows 4 com ports. I've configured them for 115200. Prontoedit and the emulator work fine here also but when I try to connect to pronto it gives me the same message that it can't connect to pronto. This time however it has no port information in the details box. I sat down with the windows NT book and spent 10 minutes trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong but I guess I started to develop a nervous twitch being on the Windows machine that long.
Can someone give a poor ol' Mac guy some pointers on how to configure these Windows NT com ports so it will recognize my pronto? There are so many neat ccf's out there, I've gotta make this thing work...
Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

Stuart in Daytona Beach

From memory, I believe you need at least VPC 3.0. Alas, Windows NT isn't much better in the serial port compatibility department.

Many thanks for the responses from all of you. Both on the forum and off. I'm still unable to connect after many helpful suggestions. (Burying a potato and cat's whiskers at midnite didn't work and I was so sure it would).
Well, my son aquired another pronto and it acts exactly like my original. It seems that phillips has a very arrogant attitude in support of it's product. The fact that some people have succesfully connected to their pronto seems to obsolve phillips of any responsibility to those that can't. Do you know of anyone that can't sync a palm pilot? ... On any operating system...

I think the plan of attack is to find a pronto user that has had success connecting and duplicate their system right down the the paint color and coffee stains on the keyboard. Then finally I could switch the HD button on my RCA DTC100 receiver.
Anyone out there care to share their configuration of success?