Re: James has been busy!

Very interesting. Open source code for the Fluke service utilities?
Neat. I have some new tapes to upload sooner or later as well, that I
got with a recent purchase. Just not a lot of free time these days!

John :-#)#

At 9:50 AM -0700 9/13/05, James Bright wrote:
>Hmm. I didn't know that there were this many users (both of you!). I
>was actually considering making this a web service and having a fat
>client application that you could download locally. The reason would
>be that once you make updates to the memory map, it could be
>re-published to the site (with comments!). Sort of like a Wiki for
>9010A code. There wouldn't absolutely need to be a fat client, but
>my thought was to integrate this directly into FIDE. I've just been
>too busy lately to do much with improving FIDE. I started on a .NET
>version (versus the crappy VB6 implementation) and go distracted
>with life and such...
>
>Interest? It could start off rather small, like the ability to
>annotate what is already there. The fancy stuff could come later.
>
>JB
>
>
>From: Martin White <martin@guddler.co.uk>
>Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 9:07 AM
>To: Technical Tools Mail List <techtoolslist@flippers.com>
>Subject: Re: [Techtoolslist] James has been busy!
>
>I've been using this for quite some time since it was put up and I
>have to say that while it isn't perfect (what ever is!?), it is a
>MASSIVE help and I would truly be lost without it.
>
>I also keep meaning to ask if there's any way you could package it
>up in a sellable format somehow? The idea of one day it not being
>there because you don't have the site anymore for any reason nearly
>always goes through my mind whenever I use it. I realise that's it's
>almost certainly a DB/Script type of application, but that's not an
>issue to me.
>
>Of course I could go through and generate scripts from all the
>drivers, but 1) that's impractical 2) defeats the object of having a
>dynamic script building engine that allows you to edit the regions
>under test and 3) is the main reason spies disappeared!!
>
>Ever thought of somehow being able to package up a locally
>installable version? No idea if this is solely hobby, or any portion
>of it being income for you mind!
>
>Martin.
>
>On 13 Sep 2005, at 15:28, James Bright wrote:
>
>>
>>Thanks (put it up a while ago, but haven't added many new features
>>recently). Usually I just give
>>out <http://tech.quarterarcade.com>http://tech.quarterarcade.com ,
>>although the link below will work as well...
>>
>>JB
>>
>>
>>From: John Robertson <<mailto:jrr@flippers.com>jrr@flippers.com>
>>Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 11:56 PM
>>To: <mailto:TechToolsList@flippers.com>TechToolsList@flippers.com
>>Subject: [Techtoolslist] James has been busy!
>>
>>Just was directed on the Rasterlist to quarterarcades' tech section.
>>Haven't looked there in a while. James has created a great tool that
>>allows you to input a video game name and it generates a memory map,
>>and both the Checksum AND the Fluke Signature!
>>
>>Way to go James! A great assist to folks that use the Fluke (etc.) in
>>fixing their games!
>>
>><http://www.ggdb.com/tech/Default.aspx>http://www.ggdb.com/tech/Default.aspx
>>
>>John :-#)#
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