[CQ-Contest] Doctor DX clone (if you never used it, you just don't "get it")

[AB2E Darrell]

Hello all,
If anyone has the CQ Magazine this far back, there was a product review. Maybe the programmer is mentioned there.

"Product Review / Announcement, AEA Doctor DX Morse Code and Contest Simulator (Locher W9KNI), CQ 1984, Oct pg 38"

73 Darrell AB2E


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Sent: Thursday, October 1, 2020 1:04 PM
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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Doctor DX clone (if you never used it, you just don't "get it")

In a previous discussion of Dr DX a number of years ago (maybe on this
list, maybe elsewhere...), I recall the programmer of Dr DX responded to a
post about it.  IIRC, he was a 6-land guy.  Maybe some google and/or list
archive searches will find that post, if someone is interested in pursuing
it.

Barry W2UP

On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 10:57 AM Tim Shoppa <tshoppa at 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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