Items to be added to the program...

* Port to C++.
* PowerMac native.
* Option for smaller size application for running on Mac 512KE and 1 Meg Plus.
* Full up simulation on more powerful Macs.
* Serial Port throttle control.
* Decoder feedback for programming and register value determination.
* Keep up with enhancements to the Extended Packet formats.
* Drag and Drop of the Loco controls to new window location.
* Simulation of train by specifying loco horsepower and empties/loads, etc.
* Save more data with Save Setup. This is kinda buggy and klunky as it is.
* Better memory management so I'm not wasting large amounts of RAM that
isn't needed.
* Online help of some sort.
* A better slider control instead of the free one I found on Internet
for loco speed control.
* Better graphics for the loco controls in general.
* Sounds that can run in the background and can be triggered. Both sampled and synthesized air horns and various other sounds.
* Layout drawing and turnout control tools to make a CTC dispatcher or tower operator station with layout feedback. Perhaps this could be a separate program that handles the feedback bus and communicates via Apple Events to the command station.
* Scriptable, recordable for automatic control.
* Autonomous control to run other trains for one-man operating sessions.
* Speech to simulate a dispatcher, other trains, defect detectors.
* Directional function control and other neat options that should be a
part of newer decoders.
* Serial throttle control with Digitrax LocoNet walk around controllers.

There's lots of work here. My primary concern is to make it efficient for use on slow, low memory Macs that can be bought inexpensively to get people into DCC, but I'm also itching to use Drag and Drop, have cool looking graphics, and do some real simulation.

I also want to keep it affordable, since I've gotten so much from the internet and the shareware that others have worked hard to make. So far I've gotten 3 shareware payments. Compared to the professional looking programs that are out on the net, I'm really tickled to have gotten anything. Making the transition from DOD aerospace worker to commercial Mac developer is one of my long term goals, so this project is important to me to show my stuff to any prospective employer.