Hello! Thanks to @Hippo for posting these, I was looking for ages!
I finally got the .iso files and mounted them as a disk (windows 11), but couldn't access the rave.exe program as my computer didn't want to play games with Acrobat Reader 4.0

I figured that an old computer would do the trick, but didn't have one. I ended up creating a virtual machine on my Windows 11 computer and installing windows XP onto it. I could then drag and drop the .iso file into the virtual machine and open the rave.exe application (giving me access to the workshop manuals).

I followed the YouTube tutorial below to get the virtual machine running - I found it to be very informative and easy to follow;



I hope this is of some help to anyone struggling to open the rave.exe manuals!

Rusty x
 
rusty_87 said:
Hello! Thanks to @Hippo for posting these, I was looking for ages!
I finally got the .iso files and mounted them as a disk (windows 11), but couldn't access the rave.exe program as my computer didn't want to play games with Acrobat Reader 4.0

I figured that an old computer would do the trick, but didn't have one. I ended up creating a virtual machine on my Windows 11 computer and installing windows XP onto it. I could then drag and drop the .iso file into the virtual machine and open the rave.exe application (giving me access to the workshop manuals).

I followed the YouTube tutorial below to get the virtual machine running - I found it to be very informative and easy to follow;



I hope this is of some help to anyone struggling to open the rave.exe manuals!

Rusty x
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Tbh I'm pretty sure you can run it on 11 if you righ click on the executables and set compatibility mode for them.

There's recent posts about this.

Have to do it on the rave and reader executables and you have to extract the files fron the iso into a folder so they are writable.
 
GrumpyGel said:
Tbh I'm pretty sure you can run it on 11 if you righ click on the executables and set compatibility mode for them.

There's recent posts about this.

Have to do it on the rave and reader executables and you have to extract the files fron the iso into a folder so they are writable.
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Well bugger me... I wish I had found that our before I started farting around with a virtual machine o_O

Right you are!

Rusty
 
Ok don't really want to go through the same, but had it on mu desktop and usually worked, but with comp. mode it doesn't anymore. Any ideas? Having Win10. Tried Sandbox, but isn't working, Win95 might be too old, but doesn't start either.
 
Great info from all you guys. Will get me out of the ditch I'm in with the rave discs not loading properly on Win 10.
Great work, much appreciated.
 
mbrokof said:
Ok don't really want to go through the same, but had it on mu desktop and usually worked, but with comp. mode it doesn't anymore. Any ideas? Having Win10. Tried Sandbox, but isn't working, Win95 might be too old, but doesn't start either.
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Think you have to set compatibility mode on all the executables - that includes the Acrobat one(s).
 
Thanks @GG, not sure where to find that. It only shows comp. mode and then to choose which version. Tried Win8 also not working. On the desktop it starts the Adobe screen but then it disappears to nowhere. Laptop doesn't even start and on both the troubleshooter gives an error. Wondering if an update from Windows caused it.
 
For anyone else, I tried the compatibility mode for all exe files (There are 6 or 7) and I could not get the application to run this way. Adobe reader loads up and then closes. I did the same as rusty_87 and setup a Windows XP SP3 virtual machine (I used VMWare Workstation but only because I have it for work). Works perfectly fine so far.
 
for anybody who is having issues.

Open the main rave folder don’t try to run it.
then go through the folders you will find all the manuals in PDF, copy them elsewhere and you will have all you need.

Sorry not on my laptop so can’t show.

J
 
marjon said:
for anybody who is having issues.

Open the main rave folder don’t try to run it.
then go through the folders you will find all the manuals in PDF, copy them elsewhere and you will have all you need.

Sorry not on my laptop so can’t show.

J
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I’ve mentioned doing this also on a few other posts on this RAVE topic.
There is no need to run the .exe file when the PDFs are all stored in a couple of folders.
 
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I'm a Linux user and rave runs just fine with a Windows emulator (wine)
Alternatively if you have a spare old laptop/desktop then install windows 7 and that will work too. Just don't use it for anything else or connect it to the internet (it's old and insecure)
 
Could someone please email me or share a link on Google Drive to help me access these PDFs?

I use a Mac system, so I don't have compatibility to open those rave folders that were mentioned.

If someone could, my email is felborba@gmail.com

I would be very grateful for the assistance,

cheers!
 
You need to set compatibility mode, but doesn't always seem to work. It's acrobat 4!!
It runs ok on windows 7 and using 'wine' on Linux (windows emulator)
 
The fact is that my old computer runs on Windows 7.
And when I try to run it, a window pops up asking me to reinstall Acrobat 4 through Windows Explorer, and at the same time a table pops up saying that the latter is no longer supported... Or an offer to install Adobe Acrobat Reeder Pro...
 
Vytasin said:
The fact is that my old computer runs on Windows 7.
And when I try to run it, a window pops up asking me to reinstall Acrobat 4 through Windows Explorer, and at the same time a table pops up saying that the latter is no longer supported... Or an offer to install Adobe Acrobat Reeder Pro...
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Dunno what your problem is, but it may be that you need to run Rave.exe not a .pdf.
 
Vytasin said:
The fact is that my old computer runs on Windows 7.
And when I try to run it, a window pops up asking me to reinstall Acrobat 4 through Windows Explorer, and at the same time a table pops up saying that the latter is no longer supported... Or an offer to install Adobe Acrobat Reeder Pro...
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I have similar issues.
But if you just open the file and look for the file named Pdf. Open that and all the manuals are in there to copy paste out what you want. They not named sensibly but just go through them you will find all you need.

J
 
marjon said:
I have similar issues.
But if you just open the file and look for the file named Pdf. Open that and all the manuals are in there to copy paste out what you want. They not named sensibly but just go through them you will find all you need.

J
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That shouldn't work (and doesn't for me) because they are locked (encrypted?) to the version of Acrobat included in the package.
 
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