Rapido will provide an automatic download of a JPEG picture from the internet at a certain time interval and show the picture on screen.
In addition it allows you to save the downloaded picture on disk. What's Rapido ?
It is just a contraction from Rik's automatic picture download.
The very first version was just written as an exercise to get familiar with the internet facilities of Delphi. Later I thought that I could be a useful tool to monitor 136kHz transatlantic propagation (almost) real-time as several US amateurs are monitoring the segment 137772Hz - 137775Hz for QRSS and DFCW signals (using ARGO or similar software) and are putting their screenshots almost real-time on the web. At that time I made some modifications in order to make it a bit more user friendly.
For the moment (28 February 2003) screenshots can be downloaded at :
Copyright and disclaimer Rapido is copyrighted freeware. You can use it and distibute it freely but you are not allowed to sell it, nor seperately nor as part of other software.
Use Rapido at your own risk, the author cannot be held responsable for any dammage or loss of data. Download
How to install Rapido
Download RADIDO.ZIP and unzip it into a separate directory (eg. C:\MYSTUFF\RAPIDO). Now you can execute RAPIDO.EXE from the windows explorer and/or make a shortcut.
