Why "...Lazarus Pascal (Ugh !)..."?
It is by far more superior, reliable performant and suited for close to
real time applications (Like contest loggers) than VB.Net or C#.
Rock solid software like TRLinux, CQRLog, etc are written in Lazarus Pascal.
TR4W is written in Borland Delphi (Embarcadero's own implementation of
Object Pascal).
You can even use in-line assembler like Tree did in TRLog (Using
traditional Pascal).
Hopefully someone some day will develop a full fledged contest logger using
Lazarus.
73,
Martín
El jue., 1 oct. 2020 5:13 p. m., Steve London <n2icarrl@gmail.com> escribió:
> If someone wants a project to create a modern version of Doctor DX,
> consider starting with the n2ic/MorseRunner repository on github. This is
> the version currently in N1MM+. It was created starting with the public
> MorseRunner source from VE3NEA, which was then converted to Lazarus Pascal
> (Ugh !), and then modified to include the 9A5K MorseRunner functionality
> originally put in DXLog.net (many thanks to K1XM !).
>
> Please don't ask me questions about it. I struggled with Pascal. For
> starters, you need to educate yourself on Lazarus Pascal. I also am a
> neophyte and struggle with github.
>
> 73,
> Steve, N2IC
>
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 10:57 AM Tim Shoppa <tshoppa@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > N4ZR asks:
> > > Does anyone know the identity of the programmer?? Seems that if source
> > > code were available it should be possible to recompile for Windows
> > > without too much difficulty.
> >
> > A little like suggesting building a Stradivarius is as simple as finding
> > Mr. Stradivarius' CAD drawings and running it through a 3-D printer.
> >
> > Pete, this is a Commodore 64 and the source code is certainly 6502
> Assembly
> > directly bit-banging on the C64-specific peripherals.
> >
> > The fact that Dr DX achieved so much using stone knives and bear skins as
> > the base technology makes it a more impressive marvel than a Stradivarius
> > :-)
> >
> > Rich's original post where he mentions the possibility of a C64 emulator
> > seems very promising. The paddle/keying would have to be a custom I/O mod
> > to the C64 emulator but many are modular enough to add simple peripherals
> > like this.
> >
> > C64's are quite commonly available used and the ROM dump Rich identified
> > may allow a new cartridge to be burned. Presumably the paddle/keying is
> > done the simplest way possible.
> >
> > Tim N3QE
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