Re: [NTLK] Tides

From: Victor Rehorst (victor_at_newtontalk.net)
Date: Tue Sep 02 2003 - 10:55:37 PDT

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Chet Johns wrote:

> There's a nice freeware program for Mac OS X called Mr. Tides. Most
> excellent for many different places in the world. It was compiled using
> RealBasic. How hard would it be to recompile for Newt OS?

Well, you can't just compile RealBasic for NewtonOS.

The algorithm behind the prediction is fairly straightforward, but there is a
lot of data that needs to be processed. I would say this is an undertaking
around the same class of a web browser, but not as hard as Bluetooth support :)

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