HAMS WHO PROGRAM

[K5HUM]

If you enjoy programming, meet up on EchoLink
You will find me (K5HUM) and other programmers
there.

K5HUM
Node: 221670

[KD8COO]

Any particular languages that you guys program in? Been awhile since I've actually done any real programming, but I still think about getting back into it some time...

[NO8M]

Does it count if I enjoyed programming 20 years ago on my Commodore 64?

10 Print "Hams are great people."
20 Goto 10
Run

:P

[KD8COO]

You guys meet up "on the air" anywhere too? I can't run echolink. No Windows PC's here anymore...

[W1SK]

Yeah, how about on the air? I got kicked off echolink.



Joe

[ab8ma]

I was a Fortran Guru. Favorite pastime - making programs run faster and optimization on parallel processor machines.

Those were the good old days.

[KD8COO]

Quote[/b] (ab8ma @ May 10 2006,15:22)]I was a Fortran Guru. Favorite pastime - making programs run faster and optimization on parallel processor machines.

Those were the good old days.
My good old days were doing x86 assembly and C on 8088 machines. Loved doing multithreaded assembly under DESQview, probably the best OS that really wasn't an OS http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[kf6rdn]

Quote[/b] (KD8COO @ May 11 2006,13:46)]Quote[/b] (ab8ma @ May 10 2006,15:22)]I was a Fortran Guru. Favorite pastime - making programs run faster and optimization on parallel processor machines.

Those were the good old days.
My good old days were doing x86 assembly and C on 8088 machines. #Loved doing multithreaded assembly under DESQview, probably the best OS that really wasn't an OS http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
DESQView rocked! I ran a multiline BBS with that.

It's like windows 31 was - more or less a DOS extender.

[KF0RT]

Quote[/b] (KD8COO @ May 11 2006,15:46)]My good old days were doing x86 assembly and C on 8088 machines. Loved doing multithreaded assembly under DESQview, probably the best OS that really wasn't an OS http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
I still program on an 80188 in assembly. For a living. Seriously. No OS, "bare metal" only. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

73, Rob

[N5KRC]

I code at work. #When I get home and get on the air, the last thing I wanna do is talk about work. #I guess that's what happens when you cross the line of one-line-of-code-too-many.

Scott, N5KRC

[KE5FRF]

Quote[/b] (ah6si @ May 10 2006,16:40)]Does it count if I enjoyed programming 20 years ago on my Commodore 64?

10 Print "Hams are great people."
20 Goto 10
Run

:P
Wow, BASIC!!!

Now that was a language that anyone could understand. I suppose you know that Q-BASIC is still available and runs on DOS I think. I believe there is even a windows application for basic available, but not sure.

Yep, those were the days, except I had the Vic-20 with the cassette drive (yikes!) You know, I would go down to the bookstore, and there were books available with games that could be programmed by hand and saved on cassete. Took it seems like 3 or 4 minutes just to save or load a game, and you had to fastforward or rewind just to the right spot, unlike the revolutionary floppy disks (I mean TRUE floppies) that created mapped coordinates on the disk for files when it formatted. Yep, I was only about 10 years old and programming my own games. I attribute a lot of my good logic sense with math and technical concepts to learning basic routines.

Oh yeah, EchoLink net...sorry, I would join but I don't know the first thing about programming in modern languages.

[KG6YTZ]

BASIC programmer since 1978 - started out on the TRS-80 Model 1, got a Timex/Sinclair 1000 for my birthday in 1983, got my first PC in 1990, worked with GWBASIC, APBasic [a shareware dialect with some problems], QBASIC 4.5, and Microsoft BASIC 7.1 ['PDS" or "Professional Development System"], which I am still using today. I have VB6 here, but I've never really learned it.

Check out this link here (http://members.aol.com/xfire905/bcprog.htm) for a program I wrote to generate the codes for Bearcat 101 scanners. I've also done some work on a program to control the Bearcat 245, but I might never actually get around to releasing it, and it doesn't do trunking.

Echolink? Got it installed here, pretty much never use it. Something in the hardware lagging the sound card. Add the bleepin' dialup connection to that, and... {sigh} Planning to get a cable modem in here soon, though.

RDN: I, too, ran a BBS. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif [Have we had this discussion before?] I had a network of my own [USLink], and was the 818 area coordinator - then the 626 AC after the area code split - for WWIVnet.

I really should take down the references [and the old phone number!] to my BBS on my "old" web site - the board went down almost four years ago.

[KE5FRF]

Last night after mention of Commodore computers, I googled and found a "Commodore 64 emulator" for IBM compatable computers. Seems basically to be a DOS program that turns your keyboard and computer into a C-64 clone, with normal PC keys changing function to replicate the layout of the C-64. It also comes with the same BASIC software. So, games can be programmed in old style basic just like the old system. Also, many downloads available. Unfortunately, I was getting a windows error when I tried to run the software, perhaps it isn't compatable with XP? Anyway, I thought this might be of interest to some of you nostalgists out there. I can't recall the URL, but I am cure a google of "C-64 emulator" or another variation will turn it up.


ON EDIT, I found a link to another URL with the same software but several versions. I might have inadvertantly downloaded an incompatable version last night, so when I get time I'll try downloading the latest this weekend. Anyway, here is the URL :CCS64 Software page, (shareware) (http://www.computerbrains.com/ccs64/)

[N5PVL]

I think this is another one of those things that works best on the Internet without being routed through the ham bands.

There are lots of programmer's web pages that include chats, file exchanges, and file libraries. That's probably the best bet.

There was once a ham radio programmer's forum, but it disappeared a year or so ago.

If there is sufficient interest, I would host one on one of my websites, along with a chat, etc... Let me know.