Box on Rails Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 OK here is what I have. In the garage is my stand alone (no Internet) show computer with S4 software playing my shows. I have a PC in the house with S4 software that has all my current sequence files. I recently loaded the new S5 software on my laptop. I have been creating some very cool sequences with S5 and want to run some of these in my show this year. Can I copy the S5 .lms file to my S4 show computer then play it in my show? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LOR Staff Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 No. We are backwards compatible, almost never forward. You can use S4 sequences in a computer running S5 show player. You probably can not (and even if you could we would not recommend) running a show created in S5 on an S4 show player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Box on Rails Posted October 31, 2018 Author Share Posted October 31, 2018 Well that means November 1st I gotta a lot of work to do. Thanks DevMike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orville Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 (edited) Well I learned something new, I always thought if something were "backward" compatible, the newest would run on the older {previous/BACK} version, but after seeing and checking out S5, I went back to S4, just easier for me to use. But S5 creates new and different type filenames doe sequences, so I took it to be that S5 WAS NOT backward compatible. Guess I need to brush up on my computer terminology again. Seems definitions aren't what they used to be or I never fully understood the term "backward", guess it depends on what you're referencing....? Ijdk LOL Edited October 31, 2018 by Orville Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LOR Staff Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 It's always based on the version you are currently on (or whatever). It's a time line. 1 2 3 4 5 If you were on the most recent S5, nothing can be in front of you. S4 (and 1,2,3) is behind you. S4 runs in S5, so "S5 is backwards compatible to S4". If you were on the most recent S4, what is in front of you is S5, and what is behind you is S3 (and 1 and 2). S3 runs in S4, so "S4 is backwards compatible to S3". S4 however knows nothing about S5 (since it's 'from the future'). That means "S4 is not FORWARD compatible with S5". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orville Posted November 1, 2018 Share Posted November 1, 2018 Thanks for that very detailed explanation DevMike. Now it all makes better sense to me. Anyone got a really good used brain for sale? I think mine's starting to wander in directions I don't want it to go.🤣🤣🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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