[Elecraft] Macintosh version of Elecraft KX3 Utility

Andy McMullin Andy at rickham.net
Wed Mar 27 18:10:30 EDT 2019


At least with Apps running in FORTH you could use something like SwiftForth and keep running them under Windows or MacOS!  

> On 27 Mar 2019, at 21:28, Grant Youngman <ghyoungman at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> It’s kind of the way things go.  I’d like to be able to run some 8-bit Z-80 apps I wrote in the 1970’s (in FORTH) without pulling my old Digital Group system out of the attic,  but I can’t.
> 
> Developers need to keep up.  I imagine that the Elecraft macOS apps will show up as 64-bit compatible at some point, too.    If not, Elecraft will alienate a (arguable small, perhaps) subset of their users, and I doubt that will happen.
> 
> Grant NQ5T (Windows free for as long as I can remember)
> K3 #2091 KX3 #8342
> 
>> On Mar 27, 2019, at 4:43 PM, Bill Frantz <frantz at pwpconsult.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Apple plans to not support 32 bit applications with the next major release of MacOS. This change will hit a number of ham radio applications as well as the Elecraft utilities.
>> 
>> My favorite program for SO2V RTTY, cocoaModem is one of them, and there is no formal support for it, and the available sources won't build under the modern MacOS development environment.
>> 
>> I'm hoping for a miracle.
>> 
> 
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