[hpsdr] MacHPSDR 0.1.0

[Kevin Wheatley]

Hi Jeremy

Great work, I'm running OS x 10.5.8 here and can't run your binary, do  
I need to upgrade to Snow Leopard ?

73's
Kevin

On 20 Feb 2010, at 12:14, Jeremy McDermond wrote:

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>
> As I said on TeamSpeak tonight, I wanted to release something for  
> people to play with this weekend.  Please understand a few things  
> though:
>
> 1.  This is heavy development code.  Nothing is well tested, and  
> there are probably a lot of things that are far from perfect.
> 2.  There is no transmit capability right now.
> 3.  There is no bandscope.
> 4.  There is no subreceiver.
> 5.  Some of the digital filters are not wired in yet.
> 6.  Performance of some things will leave a lot to be desired.
>
> I've made a few changes since the last time I made an announcement:
>
> 1.  There is a panadapter that works fairly well.  It does not  
> scroll and does not have accurate frequency marks.  It also does not  
> have click-to-tune capability yet.
>
> 2.  There is a waterfall display that doesn't work so well.  It lags  
> significantly behind real-time.  I will be working with this more,  
> and trying to implement it in OpenGL instead.  It does not scroll  
> nor has click-to-tune capability.
>
> 3.  I have written an integral firmware loader.  The executable  
> ships with internal copies of Ozy_Janus.rbf and ozyfw-sdr1k.hex so  
> you don't have to go find them.  You also will not need to run any  
> permutations of initozy, loadFW, or loadFPGA to get it working.  An  
> interesting thing about implementing it on IOKit is that I was able  
> to get rid of the blind sleeps in loading firmware.  IOKit allows  
> you to register a callback for when a device you are interested in  
> shows up on the system.  So, this callback fires when Ozy becomes  
> available again after you load the FX2 firmware.  This means we can  
> immediately start loading the FPGA code, and go about our way.  For  
> those of you using my ghpsdr, I will probably release a cleaned up  
> version of a prototype standalone application for loading the  
> firmware.  You'll be able to double-click and load Ozy with it.
>
> 4.  I have added the Sparkle Updater code to the bundle (http://sparkle.andymatuschak.org/ 
> ).  This will allow me to push updates to folks and have you  
> automatically reminded when there's one waiting.  You've probably  
> seen this same code in other apps if you're a Mac user.
>
> 5.  Added a custom "About" dialog box.  The box shows the versions  
> of Ozy, Mercury, and Penelope.
>
> You can get a binary distribution from http://www.nh6z.net/MacHPSDR/MacHPSDR.zip
>
> The entire XCode project is checked into my SVN repository at https://www.xenotropic.com/ham-svn/MacHPSDR
> --
> Jeremy McDermond (NH6Z)
> Xenotropic Systems
> mcdermj at xenotropic.com
>
>
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