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I have been looking for a slate that i can put herolab on and will have a small footprint at the table. I have been searching for this for awhile. The ipad is out because it does not allow installation of herolab, which i want to use for my game. Rumors of various slates keep popping up, I think this one fits the bill.
http://www.exopc.com/en/exopc-slate.php
Does anybody have any others that they know of other slates or small tablets? The hp slate looked promising but it is up in the air. Does android OS allow the installation of herolab? How much of a walled garden is Android? One prerequisite to any slate that I use would be the ability to put normal software on it.I think the ideal would have both touch and pen input for editing character sheets.
If you are looking for a slate that can run Hero Lab, you are limited to a slate that runs Windows. And there aren't any that I am aware of at the moment.
Now, the makers of Hero Lab are working on porting it over to other systems, so that could change any day now. But I wouldn't expect a port to a slate OS any time in the near future.
It might be possible to set up an Android slate with VM software... But to date I haven't seen any slates with specs to handle that well.
If you need Hero Lab portability right now, you probable need to look into Windows netbooks.
Take a look at the Asus EEE PC T91MT
It's a 8.9" Netbook convertible (you can use it like a regular netbook + mt screen, or turn the screen over and lay it flat onto the keyboard to have just a multitouch screen)
It also has fun stuff like WLAN, USB, a webcam, and can handle flash. Not that this is anything unusual.
I have been looking for a slate that i can put herolab on and will have a small footprint at the table. I have been searching for this for awhile. The ipad is out because it does not allow installation of herolab, which i want to use for my game.
You might consider also posting this on the Hero Lab support forums, since you'll likely get some additional readers there that use Hero Lab for games other than Pathfinder. I know one of our users *IS* using Hero Lab on an iPad - at least, according to his posts on our forums - but I'm not sure of the details. So perhaps that's an option you can still investigate.
As for Windows slates, there are supposed to be a bunch of them coming out in Q4 this year, so you might want to wait just a little longer before diving in. Here's a link to something interesting I saw about a month ago:
Fujitsu Lifebook TH700
If you are looking for a slate that can run Hero Lab, you are limited to a slate that runs Windows. And there aren't any that I am aware of at the moment.
I've used herolab on linux(ubuntu) using wine.
It was just the demo but it seemed to work well.
Cheers
If you are looking for a slate that can run Hero Lab, you are limited to a slate that runs Windows. And there aren't any that I am aware of at the moment.
I've used herolab on linux(ubuntu) using wine.
It was just the demo but it seemed to work well.
Cheers
Then that might be an option for an Android slate. (I typically avoid mentioning WINE, because when it works it works great... But when it doesn't, it is usually far too much of a headache to put people through.) Thanks for the notice.
If you are looking for a slate that can run Hero Lab, you are limited to a slate that runs Windows. And there aren't any that I am aware of at the moment.
I've used herolab on linux(ubuntu) using wine.
It was just the demo but it seemed to work well.
Cheers
Did you manually install wine using sudo or did you let the system install it? Wine is not cooperating with me at all.
I use a Netbook...an Asus Eee PC 1015PE ($257 @ Best Buy). Runs Hero Lab, Windows 7 Starter, and has ~6.5 hour battery life. Extra batteries are $30.
You could use an iPad with one of those desktop remote control to your Window's PC at home.
is a free one.
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I open HL on my PC then with the software that came with my TF201 I launch the cloud software.
You will need to load the cloud software on your PC before you can connect. Easy as VNC, RDP
You need to change the cloud software so it does not change your PC/Laptop screen resolution. But over all it is easy. I have another software by WYSE that does it to but I have had troubles getting my table to see my PC, not sure why. The WYSE software you have to purchase but the MyCloud software came on my TF201
Remember though you have to load Splashdesktop on the PC which when you run the MyCloud will tell you how to do it.
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I have been looking for a slate that i can put herolab on and will have a small footprint at the table.
I use SplashTop on my iPad to access my Win7 desktop or WinXP laptop. One of the guys in my group uses a Windows tablet of some sort that it appears he has HL installed on. All I know is that he bought it "work" purposes (he's a software dev), but I think it was quite expensive.
-Skeld
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RPG Superstar 2015 Top 16, RPG Superstar 2013 Top 16
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I run it on a Dell Foggy Night. You want full 1080 native resolution or else you will be side scrolling a lot, and that's annoying.
If you have a laptop & space etc to use it then that would be the quickest overall option.
iPad users can finally rejoice as HeroLabs has officially made a version for you.
Android tablets can install the free TeamViewer app & just access the home PC and HerLabs that way since there is no video or sound to play.
Now, if only you had an iTimemachine, you could journey back to 2010 and tell him!