I was rooting around in the loft... and I thought - I wonder if Blitz Basic will still run my old applications.... would you believe it, they both worked! I had a bit of trouble locating the screen configuration (boots in low rez, needed super-hi 1200 by 512 ) One was an application to read in velocity information from a magnetic tape, you had the facility to load up to 3 training rides in glorious 1200 by 512 pixels:-
(Excuse the quality of the images, I do have a null modem link that I never got around to sussing how to operate. Might give it a whirl and see if I can access my Miggy via a terminal window on my Windows box in the loft)
Programs configuration GUI:
Loading in the data:
Debug on the loading screen:
Plotting the velocity on the screen: (similar app here: http://perg.phys.ksu.edu/papers/bike/usingaudiotape.pdf )
I modified the program to produce a graphical representation of laps done by radio controlled cars that I used to race. The lap counting was managed by a manual 8 switch box that was connected to the parallel port of a Miggy the car club picked for a song at the time, the software was reliable if I say so myself!:-
And finally the hardware specification to run my applications (in the top left
of the image is the hardware that was strapped to the back of my bike to record the
speed of the bike on a magnetic tape, the two fat batteries provided the 3 volts to power the sound production chip when the magnetic reed switch closed on each rotation of the wheel):
Yep, my miggy has got to be about 16 years old and still does the trick with BBasic 2.1
Do you think:
1. I could get them on the Blitz Showcase (well I didn't have internet access when I developed it in Blitz on the Amiga)
2. I could upload the executables to a Miggy site somewhere ?
(Excuse the quality of the images, I do have a null modem link that I never got around to sussing how to operate. Might give it a whirl and see if I can access my Miggy via a terminal window on my Windows box in the loft)
Programs configuration GUI:
Loading in the data:
Debug on the loading screen:
Plotting the velocity on the screen: (similar app here: http://perg.phys.ksu.edu/papers/bike/usingaudiotape.pdf )
I modified the program to produce a graphical representation of laps done by radio controlled cars that I used to race. The lap counting was managed by a manual 8 switch box that was connected to the parallel port of a Miggy the car club picked for a song at the time, the software was reliable if I say so myself!:-
And finally the hardware specification to run my applications (in the top left
of the image is the hardware that was strapped to the back of my bike to record the
speed of the bike on a magnetic tape, the two fat batteries provided the 3 volts to power the sound production chip when the magnetic reed switch closed on each rotation of the wheel):
Yep, my miggy has got to be about 16 years old and still does the trick with BBasic 2.1
Do you think:
1. I could get them on the Blitz Showcase (well I didn't have internet access when I developed it in Blitz on the Amiga)
2. I could upload the executables to a Miggy site somewhere ?