[Ham-Mac] OS X development

[Chris Smolinski]

>>> The ability to compile for Mac OS 8, Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, and Windows 95
>>> through Windows XP from one source is a key advantage.
>>
>> Definately true. I wrote the software for the radiation detector (GM-10
>> geiger counter) I sell with RB, that allowed me to do both Mac, OSX, and
>> Win builds all from one set of source, with minimal conditional compiling.
>> http://www.blackcatsystems.com/GM/ for details
>
>I meant to say that I had a look at that project and will probably treat
>myself to one when I am feeling flush, it looks like an interesting
>experimental project.

It was a lot of fun designing it. Of course, the software took longer than
the hardware, and though you can finish harware, software is never done! ;-)

You can see online data from the unit in my basement at
http://www.blackcatsystems.com/GM/page6.html it's interesting to see the
changes over time.

RB did make the software task much easier than if I had to write separate
Mac and Windows versions. And RB 4 supports serial ports under OSX, which
is handy. I bought the graphing source code from someone, it's often a lot
less expensive to buy something than write it yourself.

>> The major disadvantage for me, which stops me from using RB for many of my
>> applications, is that it is just too darn slow. MultiMode written in RB is
>> just not going to happen.
>
>I agree that for DSP realtime apps RB is not going to do, but I have found
>that for anything else I want to do it is plenty fast enough even on a slow
>machine. I am impressed by its speed on maths and graphics intensive
>work.The demos of 3D stuff I have seen are amazing.

Yep, it is good for most everything else. I could probably even use it for
a UI for MultiMode, and then do all the other stuff in C as plugins.

>I have spent the day writing updated docs and FAQ for MoonSked X and also
>have changed the file format of distribution from .sea.hqx to .dmg.gz to
>make things easier for OSX users.

I've never made a dmg.gz file, how do you do it?

>I am now running everything except my web design software in OSX.


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Chris Smolinski
Black Cat Systems
http://www.blackcatsystems.com
Macintosh Software
GM-10 Radiation detection system