LOL! Thank so much for the history of how you got trapped... errr started in the Lady Heather software project. :)
Questions still remain: 1) What is the link to the "official" Lady Heather site? 2) How/where can we shoot a donation to say "Thanks!"? 73, ______________________ Clay Autery, KY5G MONTAC Enterprises (318) 518-1389 On 7/24/2016 2:03 PM, Mark Sims wrote: > I am the creator author of Lady Heather. The code in Lady Heather started > out from a program that I wrote to control Magellan GPS receivers (like the > OEM-5000) back in days of the first Gulf War... it ran under DOS as a text > mode only program. > > When TAPR did their group buy for Trimble Thunderbolts I bought one and > modified tcode to work with it. Again, basically a DOS program that could > run under Windows and do some plotting. The idea was to keep it simple and > had a lot of kludges to minimize memory usages so it could run on low-end > discarded machines. > > John Miles added support for running properly under Windows using his WIN_VFX > library. Then the fun began and things began to get out of control. Lots > of new features, silly features, useful features, not so useful features > were added. There is still code/compile options in there for a DOS > compatible compile, but too much has been added for that to ever work again... > > A few months back, I added support for working under Linux using X11 as the > graphics / keyboard interface. That code is what it in the Rev 4.0 beta that > is on John's web site. > > Lately I have been adding support for working with receivers other than those > in the Trimble Thunderbolt family. It is now working with Trimble, > Motorola, Jupiter, Sirf, Venus, Ublox, NMEA, SCPI (Z38xx), UCCM, and a few > others. It also works with GPSD (a sort of universal GPS receiver interface > for Linux). It can also work as a system clock display without a GPS > receiver connected. > > I hope to have the newest code finalized and released shortly... I'm waiting > on a couple of new receivers to come in. > > Lady Heather is free, open-source software now released under the very > permissive MIT license... > ---------- >> Mark, what's your official link to Lady Heather.... and how do we donate to >> the _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
