[Ham-Mac] Winlink on A Mac?

[Steve Hellyer]

Hi Patricia,

Not 100% sure what you mean by workings.  The processors are quite  
different.  G5 PPC is made by IBM.  Intel Duo Core is made by well..  
Intel. :-) At a very basic level the workings are similar. In the  
same way I guess as a gasoline engine is the same as a propane  
engine. Performs same function but do it in slightly different ways.

Your 1.8 GHz Power PC G5 will run RDCP+/MAC fine.  It just the Intel  
based Mac right now.  I haven't done some extensive test but looks  
very close to running and seems like perhaps some serial timing issue  
introduced because its running under Rosetta.  Don't hold me to that  
analysis as I am not the author of software and is based on other  
experience with serial related software running under Rosetta.

Good news is Jim Nedbalek replied to me.

"Actually working on another approach using XCode instead of the  
Codewarrior Carbon project.  No timetable yet but some progress  
during the normal slow summer lull from client demands."

So the answer is he is working on it just bogged down with his  
consulting business. Understandable I would say.

Certainly looking forward to it as an avid packet user.  It is a good  
piece of software. Let you take full advantage of all the bells and  
whistles of the kantronics TNCs.

For now I am using Zterm (also running under Rosetta). It just a  
basic serial terminal and is "old school" compared to RDCP+/MAC but  
is doing the job and always good to get back to roots from time to  
time. :-)

Cheers & 73

Steve

On 12-Jun-06, at 1:06 PM, Don and Patricia Allen wrote:

> How sad.
>
> Is the iMAC Intel core duo workings the same as the "Dual 1.8 GHz  
> Power PC G5?"  If so, that would be good to know.
>
> I do hope someone can make it work for all of us MAC users.
>
> Patricia.
>
>
> On Jun 12, 2006, at 8:49 AM, Steve Hellyer wrote:
>
>> Not sure but, I don't think Jim is working on this software  
>> anymore.  It hasn't been updated in quite some time.
>> Sad to say the 2.1v1 of RDCP+/Mac software isn't working on my  
>> iMac Intel core duo (Almost but not quite).  Seems to be a serial  
>> communication issue. Gets just past setting TNC into HOST mode and  
>> then says there is a serial communication issue. Too bad as this  
>> was some wonderful software for running with Kantronics TNCs.
>>
>> Steve
>> VA3SPH
>>
>> On 8-Jun-06, at 2:13 PM, Don Agro wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 8-Jun-06, at 1:54 PM, Richard Rucker wrote:
>>>
>>>> I hope that Don Agro, VE3VRW, of Dog Park Sofware, and Chris  
>>>> Smolinski, N3JLY, of Black Cat Systems --  to name just two  
>>>> competent Mac developers -- have read your invitation and are  
>>>> giving it serious thought, if they haven't already.
>>>
>>> I think Jim Nedbalek is already working on this...
>>>
>>> <http://www.winternet.com/~nedbalek/rdcp_mac_2.html>
>>>
>>>
>>> 73 Don Agro VE3VRW
>>>
>>> D o g   P a r k   S o f t w a r e   L t d .
>>>
>>> email: dagro at dogparksoftware.com
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