I got DCS 5.0 and then 6.0 installed. It went smoothly once I found a solution to the "device cannot be started" error from my recently-purchased RS-232 to USB adapter. It turned out that the current driver won't work with older Prolific chips at Windows 8 and above, which led me to believe my adapter was manufactured in the Windows 7 era. Per an entry in someone's tech blog, I had to replace the driver with a 2008-vintage driver that for reasons I don't understand is compatible with Win 8 and higher. If not for that, I might still be getting the "There are no COMM ports installed on this PC" error from the DCS loader program.
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