Free ALDL Software

Tom Barcia tbarcia at emanon.net
Fri Nov 5 12:25:30 GMT 1999


I'm interested as well.

Tom Barcia
tbarcia at emanon.net
www.emanon.net/~tbarcia
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On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Paul Blackmore wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> Recently I made available some ALDL software called probe.exe. A new version 
> (version 1.3) of this software is available at 
> http://www.users.bigpond.com/paul_blackmore/CProgramming.htm
> 
> The latest version contains some bug fixes and a new log file format which 
> is compatible with a new application that I am about to release called 
> CarBytes.
> 
> CarBytes is completely 100% free of charge I'm not charging any money for 
> this software, I wrote it because I needed it and I've seen a lot of posts 
> on this list about people wanting to "read" their ALDL data streams. Lots of 
> people have helped me out on this list - I'm just giving something back :)
> 
> CarBytes is a full featured ALDL analysis and charting application.
> It is 100% customisable for ANY ALDL data stream: If you know what values 
> are in the data stream you can configure CarBytes to display them as 
> numbers, real-time-scrolling graphs or bit-flags.
> 
> It is written for Windows 95/98/NT and requires data be input to the PC via 
> the serial port. (Using a TTL to RS232 converter like a MAX232 circuit)
> 
> Features:
>   Up to 128 (this can be increased if necessary) individual values can be 
> tracked simultaneously. Including malfunction flags and status flags.
>   Up to 3 charts, each with up to four series can be charted simultaneously.
>   Charts are fully customisable.
>   Built in "Formulas" can be applied to the raw byte values to generate 
> "proper" units of measure. I want to include more built in formulas but I 
> don't know how a lot of them are calculated. Let me know if you have any and 
> I'll include them.
>   High and low water mark alarms can be set and fail counts are generated 
> for values outside the high/low water marks.
>   Recording and playback of data streams.
>   Multiple ALDL data stream formats can be configured.
>   Pause and single step modes.
> 
>   If anyone is interested in this software let me know. If there is enough 
> interest I'll be posting it sooner rather than later. I.e if no-one is 
> interested I won't bust my guts to have it ready this weekend. If lots of 
> people want it then I'll get it done. I need some sort of motivation.
> 
> Cheers
> Paul Blackmore
> 
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