The dash16 card had originally been supported on dos platforms- Professor Ray, of the
UofI, had been using the boards for data acquisition under dos. However, other parts of
his work preferred linux, and so a device driver for the boards under linux was deemed
necessary.
Mike Perry, Sean O'Connor, and Steven Engelhardt coded fiercely. Mike in particular
worked very hard to get the driver running before showtime. Take a look at their
handywork.
Steve coded the oscilloscope in GTK, the visual part
of our demonstration that would have been absolutely crucial to our presentation to the
judges. Take a look at the oscilloscope source!
The night before EOH many LUG'ites worked through the night, coding and preparing for
the next day. Tim (last name?) stepped in with his mad debugging skills and helped out
with driver development. He also worked with Scott Olsson to port some of proffessor
Ray's dos code (rewrite it) for linux, using the newly developed driver. Scott also
wrote up the driver's specification, which
should be helpful to anyone interested in using the driver.
As hinted at before, due to some confusion, LUG was not actually judged this year. This
proved especially dissapointing with all the hard work Mike and others put
forward. Everyone in LUG would agree that our presentation was far from visually
stimulating, but it was technically interesting. Still, everyone involved had a
great time and learned a great deal.
