RE: RATbox interest

Jeff, I too would be interested in one. I have a few questions about
it though...

Can it be used for b/w raster games (or raster games in general or
   only for vectors?
Can a non-assembly programmer like myself use one pretty easily to
   debug a dead board? Or do we have to be assembly lang. hackers
   to make sense of its output?
If it finds errors in the checksums, will it point out a possible
   piece of bad hardware? (i.e. location of the bad chip or whatever)

Thx for any info...looks to be very cool.

Regards,
Tom Cloud

From: jeff hendrix <jhendrix@Quark.Com>
>Reply-To: vectorlist@lists.cc.utexas.edu
>To: "'vectorlist@lists.cc.utexas.edu'" <vectorlist@lists.cc.utexas.edu>
>Subject: RE: RATbox interest
>Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 15:26:42 -0600
>
>Currently our target price is $199 (that will include an assembled board,
>the parallel cable and the power supply to run it)
>
>I used visual C++ 6.0 to write winRAT.
>The API library will be generic, so controlling programs can be written on
>any platform.
>Currently the board requires a parallel port, but once we get it done we
>are
>thinking about building a serial adapter so it will run on all the other
>platforms in the world.
>
>-----Original Message-----

From: Christopher X. Candreva [mailto:chris@westnet.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 3:11 PM
>To: 'vectorlist@lists.cc.utexas.edu'
>Subject: Re: RATbox interest
>
>
>On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, jeff hendrix wrote:
>
> > I know this might be a little premature,
> > but I'd just like to get a head count on how many people might be
>interested
> > in the RATbox?
>
>I'ld be interested. How much do you expect it to cost ? And just what chip
>IS that on the board ?
>
>While I'm bugging ya -- what did you write the Win 9x software in ? I'm
>trying to guess how hard it will be to port. I don't knomally keep a Win 9x
>capable machine in the workshop.
>
>-Chris
>
>
>
> >
> > -jeff
> >
> > I'll probably have pawn off one, or both, of my girls to help pay for
>the
> > initial run. I just want to make sure we make back enough so I can get
>them
> > back. ;-)
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jeff hendrix [mailto:jhendrix@Quark.Com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 11:28 AM
> > To: 'vectorlist@lists.cc.utexas.edu'
> > Subject: CATbox? RATbox!
> >
> >
> > I guess I'll let the CAT out of the bag.
> > Here is the project Anders and I have been working on.
> > I threw this web page together in a matter of seconds, just so we have a
> > brief description of what this thing does.
> >
> > http://www.diac.com/~jeffh/rat/
> >
> > We are VERY close to having it working, we get something like a 1% error
>on
> > RAM writes when we write all 1's to a memory location. So we are trying
>to
> > nail it down.
> >
> > -jeff
> >
>
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