Re: FS: More 9100A items

As a professional .NET developer... I can tell you it ain't pretty. I did
it in VB6 (which I had to "learn" because I hate VB) because at the time
there weren't any great serial APIs for .NET. That's probably not true
anymore. I did start on a 9100A version of FIDE (because I find the 9100A
soooo much slower than I can actually type) but that was about the time
that my second child came along so I didn't have much time to devote to
that. Besides that 9010A is a lot more approachable for anyone beginning to
troubleshoot.

How are you making out on the 9100A? There is a lot of potential there. I
could "shotgun" a board a lot more quickly with the 9010, but the 9100
would be more thorough if you have the time to invest. The thought did
occur to me to sell my bench 9100... then I booted it up tonight and went
into editor mode and reminded myself how cool a little test machine it was
:-)

JB

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From: martin@guddler.co.uk
Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 9:25 PM
To: "Technical Tools Mail List" <techtoolslist@flippers.com>
Subject: Re: [Techtoolslist] FS: More 9100A items

> P.S. I am thinking of opening up FIDE as open source. Thoughts? Of
course
> it's written in crappy VB6.

I'd certainly be interested in taking a look!

A few years ago I'd have offered to take it on and bring it up to .NET,
and maintain it etc. but I'm not sure I'd ever get round to it these days
since I'm now using the 9100 so haven't really used FIDE in ages.

If there was enough interest then I could look at porting it to RealBasic
and doing a Mac version but I doubt there's enough interest out there to
warrant it and I'd also have to borrow a 9010 in order to test the results
really.

Martin.

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