<SOAPBOX>

The question is being avoided:

Can one _legally_ copy that EPROM?

This isn't really a question of morality or Elektor's business practices.

</SOAPBOX>

Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems
(contract development of high performance, high function, low-level
software)

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Rigby-Jones <mrjones@NORTELNETWORKS.COM>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 7:53 AM
Subject: Re: [EE]: Oscilloscope


> > > >build them. I really hope they are going to do a PCB for this.  The
> > only
> > > >downside is I can almost guarantee that the code will not be
published,
> > you
> > > >will have to buy a pre-programmed eprom from them.
> > >
> > > As the code is in a 27256 series eprom you should need to buy only one
> > and share the cost among the group of mates all wanting to build it. It
> > does not use any micro on the ROM board that makes the gameboy into an
> > oscilloscope - it uses the gameboy processor as a DSP.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Martin Hill [SMTP:eaxmjhi@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK]
> > Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 1:38 PM
> > To:   PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> > Subject:      [EE]: Oscilloscope
> >
> > Is this code available for free?  If not, then isn't what you are
> > suggesting just what people complain about everytime somebody
> > asks how to get around the code protection on a PIC?  Apologies if
> > I have got the wrong end of the stick.
> >
> > Martin
> >
> I guess (as with the PIC thing) it depends on what side of the fence you
are
> sitting on.  Elektor obviously want to make as much money as they can out
of
> the article, and therefore charge a small fortune for the PCB and a
> pre-programmed EPROM.  However, as a (potential) constructor, I think it's
a
> little short sighted no to publish the code.  Building a project such as
> this should be fun and have at least some kind of educational value,
> otherwise there's not a lot of point in building it.  Certainly the specs
of
> the scope, coupled with the cost of a Gameboy if you don't have one
wouldn't
> IMO make it worth building for use as a serious tool.  I suspect
publishing
> the code wouldn't make a huge dent in their chip sales, a lot of amateurs
> who may be tempted to build this will not have sutiable programmers, but
> having the code available makes the investment in building the unit far
more
> worthwhile.  As well as learning from code you have the possibility to
> modify it for your own requirements, or to improve it.
>
> I personally think that although Elektor is generaly a quality magazine,
by
> their business decisions they aim these kind of projects above the heads
of
> most amateurs.
>
> Mike
>
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