Warpdrive

Warpdrive is the next development step of my WarpCalc Program. This program includes new features and has a new GUI, which is no longer based on Java. Instead I used the LPTK for the Linux and Windows GUI.

This program also supports now calculation of the speed for the pre-TNG era and a more accurate formula for the TNG era, which actualle results in Warp 10 = infinity speed. I found the formula at www.arndt-bruenner.de/mathe/Allgemein/warp/warp.htm where the author also explains his calculations.

Copyright

Warpdrive is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Features

The features warpdrive offers you are:

• calculates speed in scales of TOS and TNG
• understands comon distance units: pc (parsec), ly (light years), au (astronomical units) and km
• multilingual: currently the GUI is in german and english, more languages can easily be added (I hope so ;-) )
• native GUI on Linux (X11) and Windows
• you get it for free

Download

Currently Warpdrive is only aviable as zip-archive. It's version 0.1 in it's very first release, so don't be suprised when you find a bug. If so, please contact me.

There are not jet installer files. Simply unzip the archives in a directory and start the program from this location.

Execudeables

Windows: warpdrive-win-0.2.zip (270kB)
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Linux: warpdrive-lin-0.2.zip (160 kB)
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Sourcecode

The program was entierly written in Free Pascal using the Light Pascal ToolKit, which you'll need to compile the sorce by simple fpc warpdrive.pas it.

FreePascal Code: warpdrive-0.2.src.zip
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