Can anyone here hook me up with X2 install media?

[volitan71]

I'm about to program something for a shop, they only have X2 and aren't upgrading. They have it on an old crappy computer.

If I can get a copy of the install I can use it at home with their key (hope it wasn't still printer port back then, I don't have one of those)

Otherwise I'm going to have to try and "goto my pc" in to this dinosaur and program a couple jobs.

Mastercam website only goes back to X3

Thanks!

[Johnward Holmeson]

I really hope the computer running that isn't connected to the internet or their network for that matter.  

[volitan71]

1 hour ago, Johnward Holmeson said:

I really hope the computer running that isn't connected to the internet or their network for that matter.  

It sure is :)

[jpatry]

42 minutes ago, volitan71 said:

It sure is

I hope you're charging enough

[Aaron Eberhard]

Looks like it's available via the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110831092122/http://www.mastercam.com/Support/Downloads/MastercamX2/Default.aspx

You can right click on the file and choose "Save Link As" and it'll download.   I don't know whether it works or not, I don't have the capability to run it

 

There's also a lot of sketchy looking sites that host if you google the EXE, but I trust archive.org!

[Jayson Kramer]

as a follow up note, X2 runs off USB as the last version to run white parallel key should be V9.1. I know as the release of V9 I was running USB.

I also have the installs.

[volitan71]

5 hours ago, jpatry said:

I hope you're charging enough

This guy pays pretty well. He's the only one I do any outside programming for. 

 

 

4 hours ago, Aaron Eberhard said:

Looks like it's available via the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110831092122/http://www.mastercam.com/Support/Downloads/MastercamX2/Default.aspx

You can right click on the file and choose "Save Link As" and it'll download.   I don't know whether it works or not, I don't have the capability to run it

 

There's also a lot of sketchy looking sites that host if you google the EXE, but I trust archive.org!

 

It worked! Thanks Aaron! See picture below.

 

 

 

1 hour ago, Jayson Kramer said:

as a follow up note, X2 runs off USB as the last version to run white parallel key should be V9.1. I know as the release of V9 I was running USB.

I also have the installs.

Thanks Jayson, got it working with the USB key from work (with permission!)

[byte]

I still have my school book from Mastercam for X2, I really liked the old X's!

[byte]

[volitan71]

6 minutes ago, byte said:

I still have my school book from Mastercam for X2, I really liked the old X's!

I guess one you get it set up the way you like it... Look at that ribbon or whatever they called it back then. It's kind of a disjointed mess. Unless I'm not understanding the method to their madness, which is quite possible.

[byte]

18 minutes ago, volitan71 said:

I guess one you get it set up the way you like it... Look at that ribbon or whatever they called it back then. It's kind of a disjointed mess. Unless I'm not understanding the method to their madness, which is quite possible.

I would do a lot of stuff in the file menus, then some more frequently used stuff in the ribbon. 

The new menus are easier to find stuff for a new user, it has a lot of clicking around and getting to the file menu is slow

[Aaron Eberhard]

7 hours ago, volitan71 said:

I guess one you get it set up the way you like it... Look at that ribbon or whatever they called it back then. It's kind of a disjointed mess. Unless I'm not understanding the method to their madness, which is quite possible.

Glad you got it up and running!

Yeah, that was a common problem on the X series...  The toolbar positions were saved in whatever resolution the developers used, but when you opened it on a different resolution, it would randomly space them around, and you had to slide it back.

It worked really well for "custom" interfaces, though.  I had an installer for my Centroid customers that would go through and configure all of the Settings > Config things I needed, as well as give them a custom button bar with all the commands they needed for cylinder head porting. 

[volitan71]

On 9/23/2023 at 11:32 PM, Aaron Eberhard said:

Glad you got it up and running!

Yeah, that was a common problem on the X series...  The toolbar positions were saved in whatever resolution the developers used, but when you opened it on a different resolution, it would randomly space them around, and you had to slide it back.

It worked really well for "custom" interfaces, though.  I had an installer for my Centroid customers that would go through and configure all of the Settings > Config things I needed, as well as give them a custom button bar with all the commands they needed for cylinder head porting. 

I did not know that archive.org held on to old files too. Thought it was just websites. What an incredibly useful service. I'll have to donate more than the usual $1 here and there with other purchases.