[Gambas-user] Lorenz

[John R. <joh...@gm...>]

@zxMarce

I think that I've finally worked out how to post to Gambas. It's been 
years since I did it and the email address has changed.

You can email me on joh...@gm...

I've not tried the FIALKA (post war?). Lorenz is purely Gambas. It's 
modified from the original in that some characters are not available or 
difficult to use, as the original used a teleprinter whereas I'm using 
standard GUI constructs. Colossus calls a set of command line modules 
(written in Ada by a German guy, whose name escapes me and whose email 
address I've not found and who won a prize offered by Bletchley Park a 
few years ago): I have the sources for those modules and I used the gnat 
Ada compiler, installed using Synaptic on Ubuntu.

I'm happy to provide all Gambas & Ada sources & Gambas 'binaries', 
together with sample messages including the one used by the German guy: 
both the original and my adapted one where I changed certain keyboard 
characters. I offered the Cypher stuff to the 2 Bletchley Park museums 
but they weren't interested. I did give them to the Computing History 
Museum in Cambridge a few years ago as I also got them working on a 
Raspberry Pi (of which they had a few) but I don't know if they used 
them: the guy I met there seemed to be preparing for a job interview and 
his attention span was short!