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Hi Tony, You get the schematics for the hardware (PDF) and you get the software (binary). Both are free for private, non-commercial usage. You also have access to our own formats, STREAM (as documentation) and IPF (storing the mastering data, created by us; comes as fully documented source and you have the forums with more information as well). That means you have full control over the data you ingested. You can of course modify the hardware you built, or ours, as needed, as you will know where the signals go to. You would however need to work with us, to make us support the new formats. Nevertheless this would mean going beyond what it does now and what it was designed for. You would for sure have noticed, as the team working on KryoFlux is pretty small (Istv?n, Kieron, two porters (Adam, Alex), me). I still hold on to my opinion that if someone does not know someone else, how can he make statements about them or their work ethic? Then why do people get paid in their daytime job? I do like my daytime job, I get paid for it. But how could I afford leaving it for a week, working for free, to make something happen? This has grown beyond a hobby. We already support the formats we ever needed or wanted. We do enjoy doing this, but I don't see why I would assign someone to reverse and implement a format (take Emulator I+II for example), which takes a lot of expertise and manpower, to e.g. support a commercial studio that wants to recover sampling data from their old floppies. These people pay for the unpaid leave from daytime work, we make it happen, and private users enjoy the updates they get for free. I see no evil in this. Ok, let's call it stalled then. I've "heard" the following pretty often: "Look, there's only one main developer, and he's so busy. Maybe if you would donate..?". I think it's really overestimated how many people would have the knowledge to continue with such a project. And how many of them would want to work on this? There aren't many floppy controller projects around apparently. Does that ring a bell? We don't have any. KryoFlux is so versatile and simple by design that all the magic happens in the microcontroller. The firmware is uploaded into RAM each time you use it, you don't even notice. It's included with the software distribution as a firmware.bin. No flashing needed. If this was the case you'd have to write your own software for the board you have, but maybe USB would also not be around anymore to attach the board. I can't look into the future, but you would still be able to access the data ingested because the formats are documented. What I can say is that we don't have plans to let it fade into oblivion, so my understandig is that should we ever decide to not continue with the project, we'd pass it on and / or open it up or even make the latter happen before. We just don't have any intentions doing this now as this would discourage those that can help funding it. We're obviously not as exposed as a top notch browser or similar that would get large donations As a sidenote: Even if you only had the binary and some STREAM dumps in the future, you could still decide to run it in emulation, like I do today for my Amiga stuff. Why you would want to do this: KryoFlux has a hardware independent, deviceless mode. It is able to "replay" any STREAM file and treat it like the data was coming in from the hardware this very moment. Because of this you can always use the software to transform any STREAM dump to a sector dump of your choice. That's sad but I don't see how this could be my or our fault. If you browse the net, you will find many comments on KryoFlux by Phil and maybe none on his solution by me/us. We really try to avoid this.The reason is we don't comment on competitive products as, being professional or not, your view is always biased to some extent. I call doing so bad style. I believe in word of mouth and others doing the comparison. If you'd come to my house and you continuously make fancy statements and suggest things (and have done so in other places in the past) it might happen you get thrown out for not behaving politely. We therefore make use of our householder's rights as needed. This also applies to our Facebook wall. Suggestions like that (the original statement, not your question here) would you get thrown out of my house for sure. Why would any large, big, mighty institution be hindered by us to look at a competitive product? Why would they let us hinder them? If they could get something better that would be completely free, why would they want to take the solution that needs to be paid for? How could I stop them from using publically available sources? This makes no sense. It really helps looking at this I did not comment on this (and other statements) because I was under the impression that such a statement speaks for itself.