Re: Code Bounty
- Posted by katsmeow Feb 01, 2023
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Thank you for the reply, Bruce. The way the stackoverflow article is written, almong with the exe file (no source) on github, makes me think it was, as the author says, "untested", for an unstated Windows version. And it needs "offset data" that's gotten to by "reverse engineering" what?
It's boggling that with so many internal and external busses in modern computers, i can not peek/poke or read/write to any of them, while on the old computers everything can be accessed. I am believing now that after MSDOS was killed off, only $billion companies have ever succeeded in connecting anything substancial to a modern computer. Heck, i had a IEEE-488 buss on a C64 once, and a built a programmable video sampler for NTSC for the C64! Even the IO port on the raspi is hobbled. Sure, for $300 i have a raspi that can read I2C thermometer (DS18B20), and import that to a new puter via the ethernet, but once a decision is made about the temperatures, i can do nothing back to the real world. And cannot read anything but those DS18B20. I cannot open an air duct and then verify it opened. I cannot verify a window (a real window in the real world) status and then open or close it. I cannot tell if it's raining, and if a water tank is full. I cannot turn on a pump and then read the flow meters.
Plus i have offered money for such a program. I have 2 dead trucks and 3 dead cars, and this computer ask is such a big deal to me that i am willing to spend money on it than get to the grocery or hardware stores.
Kat
