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Re: satellite tracking predict

roberto wrote:


Hi,
i have to port an open-source software for satellite tracking
developed in C for linux and also available in debian named "predict":
www.qsl.net/kd2bd/predict.html
for a motherboard with the following features:

- 16 bit processor ("predict" has been developed for 32bit machines instead)
- clock 32MHz
- 128 kB of memory
- 256 kB flash

I'd like to ask you if anyone has studied the problem or is acquainted
of this software. Please ask me for any other info.
Thanks all the same
I have yet to actually have experience in porting software, but as PREDICT is distributed (with tools) on a PAIR of floppy discs, you will need to remove a large amount of software from the package.
As predict is also specifically designed for i386 machines, you'll also have to do work on porting, possible endianness issues, as well as potentially dealing with 32-bit integers on a 16-bit architecture. (This means using 2 16-bit unsigned integers)
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