Barry Broskowitz posted:Hudson,
"some of which" and "typically" do not give me a lot of confidence.....
Tell someone who cares. Your arguments are specious and I'm done talking to you.
Clem,
Barry what are the lash-up issues 6.1 fixed ?
Try it and find out for yourself. There are only one or two cosmetic-level bugs of which I'm aware.
Even with DCS 6.1 I have found management of MU's or lash-ups to be buggy and inconsistent on the best of days. Nothing anybody says here will convince me otherwise. And my sentiments have been echo'd by those who built and wired my layout too. On the simplest power loop of my layout, I have days when the lash-up of two Canadian Pacific Holiday Train locos works fine, and other days it can be a real brain-teaser. 
Commands to adjust sound might work on the lead engine one day, and leave the sound level untouched on the trailing engine. Think I'm kidding? Things were so inconsistent when I was filming a video the other day, I finally gave up on the lash-up for one particular video sequence that involved PFA announcements. Here's the scenario...
I'm double-heading two CP Holiday Train locomotives. When I activate the PFA dialogue to hear the special holiday announcements, the engine sounds of BOTH locomotives should drop in order to hear the dialog -- but that only happens on the lead loco. So the sounds of the trailing loco drown out the PFA dialog announcement. Sometimes the horn works on the lead loco... Other times it doesn't.
So I can only conclude the code is buggy, and doesn't properly handle certain scenarios. Either one part of the code is stepping on the other. Or the code wasn't designed to handle those situations. It's that simple.
You're talking to a former software engineer in my early career days, so I know what I'm talking about here. Things have certainly become complex when trying to get Legacy and DCS to work together. So I fully appreciate all that's being done to code this stuff, test it, and certify the "ready for prime-time stamp" to be put on things. And based on what I'm experiencing, we're not quite ready for that last step. 
David
