At 06:32 PM 4/18/2023 +0000, you wrote:

What commodore program did you use? My elmer had a cool one, and I traded a commodore 64 for an RC car because I thought it was so cool. Well guess what, I just picked up that computer for my parent's house 35 years later and it still works! I brought it to school for the kids to see. I found one on a dead link from an amsat news post, but that is not the same program. I was able to get running on a simulator, and I could tell that it was not the same app. I distinctly remember lots of colors.

I am waiting for fresh floppies and a raspberry Pi hat that emulates a 1541 drive as all my floppies were dead as this thing has been in the garage for many of those 35 years. We live in hot Southern California.

-Chris KQ6UP

I really wish I could remember the name of it, but it wasn't from Amsat. It was shareware. a computer guy came to a ham event, and had lots of programs for commodore, and he just happened to have a tracking program. I do remember mailing a couple bucks to the program author. Kind of brings back memories.

It worked good and I used it until I got my first PC, then I bought InstantTrack. It came in the mail from Amsat on two floppies with a freeware de-compression program. Still use InstantTrack to this day for antenna control on a windows 98 computer.

I think InstantTrack is one of the best tracking programs ever written, with all the information it can give you besides just tracking satellites.

KB7ADL