Hi, I've written a small application that enables windows 8 tablets (or notebooks with GNSS sensor) to use OpenCPN. It's quick and dirty, a work of couple of hours only, but seems to work. It's been tested inside of a fiberglass boat and the GNSS sensor seems to be able to pick up the signal...

As you may be aware Microsoft is very close to releasing a new generation of the windows operating system: Windows 8. The software is available now to the development community. The purpose of this post is to start a thread with links to work arounds for these operating systems. Windows 8 is...