MegaDots Is Year 2000 Compliant: MegaDots software contains virtually no date calculations or date manipulations. MegaDots software does not check the time or date, store the time or date, or use any time or date computations. We guarantee that MegaDots has no component that will cause any problems on any specific date, including the switch to the year 2000.
Areas for Caution: The one potential weakness in MegaDots relates to the unlocking process on computers that are not fully year 2000 compliant. MegaDots allows the user 30 days of use of MegaDots before requiring the user to provide an unlocking code (furnished by Braille Planet during the registration process). Around the year 2000, many people will be madly switching dates on their computers to get things fixed. On some computers, the current date may be set back some years before it is shifted back to the correct setting. This type of date shifting may cause problems for a date-sensitive unlocking process.
We ask that you pay attention to the date of your computer when you are installing MegaDots and are using it for the first time. If the date is wrong when you install, and it later is corrected, MegaDots may think that a lot of time has elapsed. This will not be a problem for year 2000 compliant computers, as there would be no need to make these types of date adjustments.
In the event that you do have an issue with the unlocking code, you would need to know the unlocking code. Thus we recommend carefully keeping track of the unlocking codes for each copy of MegaDots you have. If you need assistance, we can help you create a master list of all serial numbers of MegaDots in use by your organization and their unlocking codes.
MegaDots and Windows NT: The first fully NT-compatible version of MegaDots was the August 1998 release of MegaDots 2.0. No previous versions of MegaDots are NT compatible.