[Ham-Mac] predict & gsat

[Paul Williamson]

>  According to the predict website: Paul Williamson, KB5MU, has 
>released Mac Vocalizer to enable PREDICT to run with speech 
>announcements under Mac OS X.  Paul are you on the list?  Any tips?

I am here.

I have compiled PREDICT and fed back the (very small) deltas to the 
author, so the latest version of PREDICT compiles on OS X with 
minimal changes, as Sergei described. However, I haven't used it very 
extensively, or with any rig control features. (With apologies to the 
purists, I still use InstantTrack under DOS for that. I'm even 
working on some enhancements in that area of InstantTrack.)

As for gsat, I haven't done anything with it on OS X, though I have 
also run it remotely from Linux on the OS X desktop. I couldn't face 
the learning curve to start working on a GTK-based application, when 
I'd rather be learning Cocoa.

I've been meaning to prepare an OS X distribution of PREDICT so that 
people wouldn't have to keep re-solving the problem of compiling it. 
Lack of support (by me) for the fancier clients is one of the reasons 
that project is still on the back burner.

So, I'm here but not very helpful on this subject. Sorry.

73  -Paul
kb5mu@amsat.org