strotter Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I call them "ALDLx" and "PKTx". I thought the post would appear in the "Last 24 Hours" search, but apparently it did not. So here's the announcement! This is the "blurb" I posted along with the attachments: These are a couple of pieces fairly functional pieces of software I've developed for tuning GM 7730 (& related) ECM's. They're written in RealBasic, a cross-platform, object-oriented, compiled version of the old stand-by language Basic. It's very similar to Microsoft's Visual Basic. I've included both OS X executables as well as the code itself and all the support files. They're functional, but rough and untested on any but my own (and Dan Juday's) cars. I'm hoping that someone who knows what they're doing can take a look at these programs and take them to the next level, or at least give me some good suggestions, hints, ideas - I'm not a programmer (as will be obvious once you look at the code). The first one is called "ALDLx". It's a data logger for the '7730-and-family ECMs. It has been patterned after a couple of older pieces of software (ALDLMON and WinALDL). It was designed from scratch to work via a USB/Serial adapter. As it stands it works pretty well (for me!), but it's spaghetti code at best (in spite of being Object Oriented). It compiles under 10.3 and 10.4, hasn't been tried under 10.5. It also compiled it on the Windows 98 version of RealBasic, as an experiment, but didn't have a chance to try it. I have some ideas for extending the functionality - for instance, being able to select different ECM's - but I think I've reached the limit of my programming capabilities. The second one is "PKTx", is a little utility that does only one thing: sends a .bin file from the Mac via USB/serial adapter to a Romulator. That's it. However, the killer app is that you can run a program like TunerPro or TunerCat under Virtual PC, modify it in a "shared" folder, and send it up to the Romulator on the fly every time you save it. So you can datalog with ALDLx, modify the .bin with TunerCat/TunerPro, and send it to the Romulator all in one smooth action. Anyway, if there are any brave programmer/gearhead types out there, I hope you take a look at these things and can maybe do something with them. They're located in the "Download" forum, here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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