[simpits-tech] OpenCockpits IOCards...

[Gene Buckle]

On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Roy Coates wrote:

> On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Gene Buckle wrote:
>
>>> Isn't it there in the downloads section under (software) ?
>>>
>>
>> Nope.  There's a DLL available for download, but the docs are useless even
>> before I feed them into translate.google.com
>>
>> The hardware looks really promising, especially at the price point it's
>> at, but if they won't provide documentation on it, it might as well not
>> exist.
>>
>> It's at the point where I just don't have the time to dick around with
>> them - if they can't provide the docs, then I'll be damned if I'm going to
>> waste a dime of my money or another minute of my time.  I don't have any
>> extra of eitehr to spare.
>
>
> This is sounding like another "it works fine with MSFS" type company.
>
> I got bitten by one of those too.  :-(
>
What blows me away is that they basically give it all away.  You can 
download the gerber files for the boards and everything.  I just checked 
the site and they don't provide source code for the PICs either, just hex 
files.  If I could get my hands on the PIC source I could probably puzzle 
out the protocol myself if I had to.

>From what I can tell, there is no way to get out from under this SIOC 
application they use.  For my purposes, that's a big bucket of fail.

They need to take a hard look at PHCC to see how to do this kind of thing 
_right_.

g.



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