[Techtoolslist] FS: More 9100A items

[James Bright]

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 at guddler.co.uk
Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 9:25 PM
To: "Technical Tools Mail List" <techtoolslist at 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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