On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Grant Black wrote:
> hack car computers. I used to worked alongside of a guy who downloaded a
> disassembler for the ROM used in his Nissin Skyline. Strange to see a
Ok, thats going too far - I think it was bad porting DOOM and MAME to the
Kodak digital cameras, or a guy I once knew removing his nokia phone os on
his communicator to put a doomtype game on it :P
> Strangely Nissin etc don't release the source to the engine management
> systems (probably saving a few blown engines I guess), but its probably not
> too long before you will be able to modify your car performance via a GUI.
I remember last year sometime reading a magazine about some prototype car
that BMW (i think) were doing that had a WinCE panel about the size of two
cassiopias side by side (making one long thin display) that showed things
like the speedo, petrol, clock, odometer, etc. etc., you could also move
them around to suit your preferance, not sure if it was a production
vehicle or just a mock-up to show possible things thou...
Mark
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