Xpantastic!

Well, the previous thread on this list (when I asked about Kid Nepro patches) threw up a link to a guy named Walt Whitney selling old patch tapes on eBay. I bought one that turned up a few weeks ago, so I guessed you'd bought one as well. Perhaps not then...

I'm sure this guy could find someone to fix bugs etc. but he'd have to pay them for the work and get them to agree not to distribute the source. Alternatively, he could release the source code to the community and then interested parties could have a look and tackle the work that interested them, with the assistance of others. He's not going to make any money out of that, but at least all the fixes & improvements should be available to all Xpander owners.

My point is that years are passing and the source code (if he still actually has it) isn't providing any benefit to him at the moment. If we (by which I mean you) could ask him to release it to us then there9;s at least a chance he might get the bugfixes etc. he's looking for. He probably hasn't thought about it for years, so we'd need you to ask him about it now.

On 23 August 2015 at 15:03, Tony Cappellini cappy2112@... [xpantastic] <xpantastic@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>>I guess you bought one of Walt Whitney's patch tapes as well, then? :)

Who is Walt Whitney?

>>Back in April 2012 you mentioned your friend who had the original Xpander OS source code. If he still has it, could you please ask >>him to release it to us?

Wow- you have a good memory.

I'm pretty sure he won't just give it away, or he would have done that a long time ago.

I think he was hoping to find someone who wanted to supercharge the FW to fix any bugs and add new features.

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Hi Tony,

If you really, really want to know, I guess I could drag my M12 into the shop and put
a scope on the output of the cassette out. I could get a general idea of data formats and such.
Through experimentation we could discover the coding. I don't even know if I have a working
casette player anymore:-)

Best Regards

Karl

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On Sat, 8/15/15, Tony Cappellini cappy2112@... [xpantastic] <xpantastic@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Subject: [xpantastic] Xpander casette patch specification
To: "xpantastic@yahoogroups.com" <xpantastic@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Saturday, August 15, 2015, 6:29 PM













Hello Xpander Users,
Do any of you know if the Xpander (or M12)
cassette patch specification has every been
documented?
I would
like to know the following, at the very least:
1 Where the single patches are
located in a cassette dump?2. Where the multis
are located in a in a cassette dump?3. The
frequencies for a 0 bit, and a 1 bit4. Where the
global data (if any) is located in a cassette
dump?
Any/all
information that has been documented regarding the cassette
patch dump format. I didn't see anything in the service
manual nor the User manual, (nor would I expect that type of
information to be in either manuals)
Online searches didn't find any
documented patch specifications, but that doesn't mean
someone hasn't already done this.
Thanks
Tony










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