cw training software that will run from a floppy?

[VA3SWS]

Anyone know of a program that will do this? I want to brush up on my cw for Straight Key Night.
tnx es 73 de va3sws

[WB2WIK]

1.  Download CW training software
2.  Store it on your floppy disk, yourself
3.  Use it!

I don't think anybody is selling or shipping S/W on floppies these days, but of course if the file size is less than the floppy's capacity you can make your own.

[VA3SWS]

<sarcasm>Gee thanks! That was so incredibly helpful! Now why didn't I think of that?</sarcasm>

What I am looking for is a program that is small enough to fit on a floppy, and run from the floppy while it was in the a: drive.

Thanks again.

[AG4RQ]

Try Morse Academy, or one of the other DOS Morse proggies out there. Of the DOS stuff, Morse Academy is about the best. You may also want to try Morse Cat, which is a Windows proggie, but takes up only 678 KB and will fit on a floppy. One problem with trying to run Morse software off the floppy drive is the slow data transfer rate. The DOS stuff may not get bogged down by this as much as the Windows stuff. Morse Academy takes up only 421 KB of space on a floppy. You could probably fit both Morse Academy and Morse Cat on one floppy. Do a Google search for both. You should come up with the URLs where they can be downloaded from.

73 de AG4RQ

[AD7EQ]

Here's another possibility.  I've been using this program on my machine, and since it weighs in at under 200 kbytes, it might work for you.  It doesn't require a hard drive, but it does require some sort of a sound card.

It's a simple program designed to read out ASCII text files in Morse.  You would have to provide your own practice texts, but there should be plenty of extra room on the disk to accommodate them.

<disclaimer> Since the program was written for my own use, it has never been tested on anything other than my own machine running win98. </disclaimer>

The program can be downloaded from

members.toast.net/tmunro/misc/morse.zip

Hope this is useful.

Tim

[K9FV]

Check the following website.  The file is only about 400K - and I "think" it is a stand-alone file that just might run from a floppy.  I have ran it from a flash drive.  You might consider a flash drive since it will act just like a HD - that would give you the option of using LOTS of different programs.

http://justlearnmorsecode.com/

73 de Ken H>

[WILLY]

 by VA3SWS on December 5, 2005     

"<sarcasm>Gee thanks! That was so incredibly helpful! Now why didn't I think of that?</sarcasm> "

I don't think he was being sarcastic.   Just try something.  

Fwiw,  I just downloaded a new, up to date version of G4FON.   In other threads here on eham.net, you will find many that recommend it highly.  

What I downloaded was an executable install file.
Ran it, and pointed it at a floppy in A: drive.   It complained a bit, even though there was plenty of space - but it did offer to let me override and install to A: drive anyway.   I did.

With WinDoze though, who knows where the 'install' program may have sprinkled little bits and pieces - files -  that it may use?   In other words, even though I told it to 'install' on the floppy, it very well may have put files elsewhere too.

Next, I double-clicked on the executable now found on the floppy.   It was named  Koch.exe  .

The G4FON  CW Trainer came up and ran just fine.

I don't have another computer handy in which to try the floppy.

Operating system here is Windows98SE.

Tried it in a DOS window, from the command line.   It would load, but would not run, complaining that it needed a Win32 environment.

Restarting the computer in DOS mode, or booting from a floppy created with Windows98,  and  koch.exe would not run at all from the command line, naturally.


"What I am looking for is a program that is small enough to fit on a floppy, and run from the floppy while it was in the a: drive. "

From my little experiment, G4FON will do it.   However, I suspect that you may have more in mind than just running from a floppy as you stated above.  

Do you need to run it on more than one computer?  was that reason for the floppy?  

What operating system will you be running it on?

[W3TTT]

Hey without any sarcasm, this is a great little program.  Thanks for the info.
N3IQA

[W3TTT]

tO TIM AD7EQ

Hey! <without any sarcasm>, this is a great little program.  Thanks for the info.
N3IQA