re:Re: Lathe source code

Bill,

Try stepster. Kevin Carrol wrote it originally, and Charlie Gallo (on
this list) has been trying to find the time to (continue) improving
it. Source code (in powerbasic, FREE compiler available) is at:

http://www.metalworking.com

Look under shareware, and follow the link to Charlies' site for
latest info. Be warned, it's spaghetti code; but if it really has
been THAT long since you did this, It MAY look REAL familiar :-)

Another place to find machine control software source code in BASIC,
PASCAL, and some C , is the Luberth plotter page. (Do a search on
luberth hobby plotter in Yahoo)

Hope this helps. Good luck.

Ballendo

P.S. The EMC source, though written in C++, may be understandable (to
an old programmer) as a source for algorithms and modern program
structure.

>The problem is the software. How could I ever get the
>software needed to control it all, other then to write it myself?
>
>I have what they call the level one driver codes in quick basic for
>this system (and all the documentation) but it has been years and
>years since I wrote any complicated code and even then I never wrote
>code to control steppers . So I doubt I could write this by
>myself. Is it possible to get the source code for such a
>program? There,,,,, that's the question that's taken three paras
>to ask.
>Bill Darby