Active captain is an addition to navigation systems, not a navigation system in its-self.
Here is a list of applications which work with Active Captain:
https://activecaptain.com/navProducts.php
It looks as if "Polar Navy" will work on Windows 8 (according to their development staff).
Here is what Jeff Seigel, who is the developer of Active Captain wrote on January 23, 2013:
1. Windows 8
The new Windows 8 with the Metro user-interface has been out for long enough now that everyone has probably seen it. There are two flavors to Windows 8 - Windows 8 and Windows RT. This has been causing some confusion. Windows RT runs generally on smaller, thin tablets like the new Microsoft Surface with Windows RT. RT only runs the newer W8 applications and will not run older Windows applications like Coastal Explorer, MaxSea, PolarView, Nuno Navigator, Nobeltec, or any other existing Windows chartplotter software. Before you get an RT device, make sure you know what you'll be running on it because it's won't run normal Windows software.
Windows 8 running on traditional PC hardware is different. It has the new W8 capabilities but also runs older Windows applications including all of those chartplotting products above. This all becomes confusing because there are new tablet-like devices (Lenovo Yoga, Dell, ASUS) that run the full Windows 8 operating system too.
There is a developer working on new W8 charting software with ActiveCaptain support but otherwise, if you're using RT, the only access to ActiveCaptain is through our website. That's where another issue starts.
Microsoft turned off Flash support by default for Windows RT causing problems for our existing website. Getting around it requires registry editing and is annoying. This thread provides a video showing how to use the Windows RT Whitelist Flash tool:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthr ... st36537009
Download the tool here:
http://www.filedropper.com/windowsrtwhitelistflashtool
And here's a more technical article that shows how to manually enable an RT device to use Flash for a website:
http://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-enable ... r-any-site
Jeff is a member of this forum and often pops up when a question like this comes up. If not go to
https://activecaptain.com/contactUs.php and at the bottom of the site is a contact form via e-mail.
