[Coco] Looking for CoCo astronomy and space software.

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 19 January 2004 16:28, jimcox at miba51.com wrote:
>Hi Neil:
>
>Just took a quick look at it and it looks like a good
>source for PC software (remember, I said "quick look" :)
>I'll bookmark it for my PC interests.
>
>I'm looking for CoCo software since I assume most of it
>would be in basic, so I can take a look at it and
>understand what's going on, or am I mistaken in that
>assumption?

There was an solar or lunar eclipse predictor program published maybe 
15 years ago in IIRC Byte, written in basic-5.22, whatever that was.  
It looked a lot like truebasic in styling.  I had  fun converting it 
to C srcs and making it run, but was never convinced it was 100% 
accurate.  It made heavy use of julian time, which with the south 
american fellows trig libraries from the rainbow, seemed to fall 
apart in March, 4714 BC IIRC.  I don't think julian time likes itself 
when it goes below zero...

That was the first time I'd tried to do a program of any real size 
(for a coco) in C, and I don't think it explored the bugs in c.prep 
at all.  But it was a lot of fun, and good exercise for me at the 
time.

I haven't the foggiest if I still retain that copy of that magazine 
though.

I do have the object yet, and *maybe* even the c srcs.

>I doubt there is a list of the type and run programs
>featured in Rainbow, Hot CoCo, ect. so I'll have to spend
>some time digging through them to find the programs I'm
>looking for.  Cheers!
>
>Jim
>
>On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:58:57 -0800
>
>  "Neil Morrison" <neilsmorr at hotpop.com> wrote:
>>I assume you've looked at
>>http://skyandtelescope.com/resources/software/
>>
>>NM
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>
From: <jimcox at miba51.com>
>
>>> Is there anyone currently out there using any astronomy
>>>or
>>> space related software for the CoCo?  Is so, I'd like to
>>> hear from you.  I think I can combine my interest in
>>> astronomy with the CoCo and have some fun.
>>>
>>> By "space" I mean satellite tracking or space simulation
>>> software.  Thanks!
>>>
>>> Jim
>>
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