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Campground Master System Requirements
Campground Master is designed to work on any IBM-compatible PC that runs Windows 95 or later. It's small and fast, yet powerful.
Campground Master is "system friendly" -- it takes very little disk space and will not disturb any other system files.
If you already own a PC with Windows 95 or later and a Windows-compatible printer,
you probably have all you need.
For the technical people, here are the minimum and suggested requirements:
| Minimum |
Suggested |
| Pentium-level processor |
Pentium III at 500MHz or better |
| Windows 95 or NT 4.0 |
Windows 2000 or XP (to keep up with Microsoft's support)
Vista is fully supported but not yet recommended |
| 32MB RAM |
1GB RAM (2GB with Vista) |
| 10MB Hard Disk space |
500MB to accommodate years of database growth |
| 640x480 display |
800x600 or greater (allows more controls to be displayed) |
| 256 color video |
65,536 or more colors (prevents "dithering" of colors) |
| Graphics-capable printer |
A good quality color inkjet printer |
If you do not yet have a computer that you can use for a reservation system and need
to minimize cost, we recommend finding a good used computer that meets the suggested
requirements above (about $500 plus $200 for a monitor), and spending about $200 on a printer.
Windows Vista compatibility
The current version of Campground Master (4.2 or later) is compatible with Vista and runs with no known problems. The only thing
you may have a problem with is using a 3" receipt printer with a USB interface, since drivers some brands may not be available yet.
If you use one with a parallel or serial interface, using the "Direct to Port" configuration in Campground Master,
that will work fine with Vista. Vista drivers for Epson printers are also available now.
Running previous versions in Vista
Older versions of Campground Master will run on the new Vista operating system, but there are a couple quirks to be aware of in versions 4.1 and earlier:
- The Help Topic and Quick-Start functions (in the Help menu)
will not work because the standard installation of Vista does not include support for the "WinHelp" standard for help files.
Microsoft has provided a fix for this that you can download and install -- click here.
If you have trouble with that installation or prefer not to try it, keep in mind that everything in the
Help file is also available in the online manual
here and also in the
downloadable e-Book (which is also supplied in the Documentation folder of the CD-ROM).
While these aren't quite as convenient,
you still have access to all of the same information.
- The default data file location of C:\Program Files\Campground Master will not work because programs cannot write into that folder
even for administrators. Your Campground Master database needs to be moved to the "Public" or "Public Documents" folder in order to work.
This requires several steps in Campground Master:
- Use File / Save As to save the database to the Public folder (be sure to keep the same name).
- Use File / Open to open the file you just saved, and log in as an administrator
- Go to Maintenance / Program Options / Database, and click the "Change the auto-open database..." button.
- If you're using maps, the BMP files for them must also be moved. If you don't know how to do this using Windows Explorer, then
the easiest way is to go into Map Setup, Edit the map (you will get an error that it can't be found), click "Browse", and locate
the original map file in the database's previous location. Open that map and it will ask you if you want to move it to the database folder
(click "Yes"). If you're using multiple map images, repeat this for each one.
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