On The Fly Tuning (OTFT) - was Re: 8192 baud 1227808 project.

[Bruce Plecan]

> BTW, I think one of the reasons Kalmaker (sorry, that word again) have
> not made a big impression, is that it's so difficult to actually make
> a product that is secure enough to sell into a market that is known
> to have a lot of users who are happy to copy, rather than pay for, the
> software. perhaps there are other issues I'm not aware of, but I think
> this OTFT concept has been totally under appreciated.

It offers nothing.
Saves ya burning chips.
Often you need to really sit down with your NOTEBOOK, and see where you've
been, and need to go.
With a little practice, ya can think things out, burn half a dozen chips,
and then try em.  Hell ya have to stop for writing notes, so what the giant
big deal!.
Worth while, yes.
Needed no.
I can see alot of new guys getting into more trouble with a OTFT then it
helping.
For the price of a cheap emulator it's worth while, but that's all to me.
Their system is so secure, that when they said **Bye All**, no one was able
to help anyone, heck of a deal that is.  Leaving your customers high and dry
really is the ultimate in poor marketing.  PLAIN and SIMPLE.

 And I also think
> that if you look at the price of other software packages - like Diacom,
> where people are happy to pay some hundreds of dollars, then even at
> $600, Kalmaker isn't a bad proposition (and Bruce, I understand your
> experiences [multiple] with Kalmaker, but I think that you under-rate
> the underlying technology and, even if some of the original stuff was
> "stolen" [hmm, maybe that's allegedly stolen], there is still a lot
> of work that went into the Kalmaker software).

I traded chips for my Diacom, total outlay was maybe $15.
Bought a laptop with junk batteries for $65.

Needhams, Dataraser, misc stuff $300,
say tunercat $90

I can diagnose 100's of different cars
I can reprom 10's of cars

I'll bet there are alot fewer illegal tunercats tdfs out there then TTS
stuff.
Why?, cause it's resonably priced.
(and they don't p--- off as many of their customers).
I'd also bet 1/3 of the effort in Kalmaker was the anti-theft stuff.  So he
was able to keep it more to himself, and sell fewer copies, a marketing
genius he's not in my book.
get clever with the hardware, and make the software public domain, and then
the product might get better for **FREE**, ain't that a novel idea!!..
I'd pay $300 for a memcal to do OTFT, for a series of ecms ie 165, but
alias, it's not an option

Heck with a Pro copy of GMEPro, I can write my own editing stuff...

>Anyway, JM$02W

>Peter


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