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BOOM is an arcade game in the grand tradition, bringing the playability and feel of the glorious 8-bit consoles on the. Don't ask for or link directly to pirated software or copyrighted material without permission of the copyright holder. Use Google and check The Emulation General Wiki before posting. Self posts should provide scope for wider, interesting discussion.
There have been minor fixes to improve reliability in different machines and better program flow. No changes were made to the essential algorithms apart from the additions needed to cater for alternate boom and element material shapes. If you run Vista I recommend you run it as Administrator. NEW in 2013: YC now produces .maa files for MMANA-GAL optimiser.
Features of the free but copyrighted program include: calculation of the element length and element spacings of a yagi for a particular frequency, different size materials for boom and elements are catered for as are different methods of mounting, dimensions of baluns are calculated, there is provision for entering the dimensions of an existing DL6WU antenna for optimisation through an external program or to gather information on its gain, beamwidth etc. A handy SWR calculator and feedline loss calculator are included as part of the package. Stacking information is also provided as are estimates of gain. A helpfile is included that covers many aspects of yagi design as well as helping with the operation of the program.
Note: where countries use a comma for decimals you may need to change your country code otherwise MMANA files will not run. Here’s one solution: http://www.copsmodels.com/gpcommapnt.htm