14 Sep
2009
14 Sep
'09
3:09 p.m.
On Sun, 13 Sep 2009, Brian Lanning wrote:
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Philip Pemberton
<philpem at philpem.me.uk> wrote:
I have a catweasel MKIV+ here. The issue is software support.
It's clear that no one is flying the plane with regard to official
Catweasel support and the state of the documentation (such as it is)
reflects that.
Based on replies I've received on the list and privately, it appears that
Linux intrinsics exist to read the raw flux patterns. These would have to
be decoded afterwards, however. Writing from an image is another issue
and I don't yet understand what's involved there.
I've read, re-read and re-re-read the catweasel docs and still do not have
a clear picture of what the card really does and how one uses it. If
anyone can summarize it at a 10,000ft. level this would be greatly
appreciated!
Steve
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dwight elvey wrote:
I have a catweasel board. I'd be happy to try out any software you
can find. I think there's source code out there for linux that can
write images through the catweasel, but I haven't had time to play
with it yet. The windows software that comes with the board is
rudimentary and only supports a few 8-bit formats. I've talked with
Jens, the guy who designed the board. He's handed software work off
to someone else and development appears to have stopped. He's also
wrapped up in other projects and doesn't seem to interested.
?Catwheasel should be able to read the bits. I have the spec
on the different special marks some place. I'm not sure
how it would be written back though. It can't be created
with any of todays controllers.
I'd be interested in a copy of the disc format spec too -- if no current
disc writer can write them, it seems like something that might be useful to
add to my analyser/reader/writer.