Beta testers needed for SpinCAD Designer

Digital Larry · Post by **Digital Larry** » Thu Apr 11, 2013 6:48 am

I'm looking for about 6 people to take part in the first beta test of this software. It will probably be three or 4 weeks until it is ready for beta. Right now I am working on file I/O routines to allow each individual block's data to be stored. For some reason I find file I/O to be the absolutely most difficult thing so far! Probably because I'm trying to use JSON instead of XML? I'll figure it out.

Prerequisites for this assignment:
1) You should have a Spin Development board to assemble the code and transfer it to an FV-1 chip for auditioning.

Edit: the SpinCAD Designer offers a built-in simulator, so strictly speaking it's not necessary to have any FV-1 hardware at all. I have the FV-1 dev board so that's the easiest thing to compare results on. Since SpinCAD Designer puts out Spin ASM, you should be able to take this into the Spin Assembler for transfer to whatever hardware you are currently using.

2) You should have a Windows machine that you can load the Java runtime environment (JRE) on.

Edit: I have feedback from one of my beta testers that SpinCAD works OK on Windows XP working on a virtual machine (not sure what the real hardware is) and also Linux.

Preferred but not required:
1) Software development or SQA experience.

2) If you have Java coding experience that would be great. I can make a template for turning SpinASM patches into controllable SpinCAD blocks. Ultimately my goal would be to allow people to develop and share (if they like) these plugin blocks without requiring them to be included in the program outright.

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If you're interested, please send me a private message through this forum.

Thanks!

Digital Larry

schrab · Post by **schrab** » Sun Apr 14, 2013 9:56 pm

Great! Can it generate .hex files to use it without devboard?

Digital Larry · Post by **Digital Larry** » Mon Apr 15, 2013 6:36 am

Although it doesn't at the moment, I'm pretty sure I can make it do so. If you look at the sample ElmGen DSP code I supplied, the first column is an ASCII representation of the hex program.

Thanks for your interest. I'm making good progress. Targeting May 6th for beta release.

Digital Larry · Post by **Digital Larry** » Tue Apr 16, 2013 9:01 am

Let me ask you this: what target are you using the Spin Assembler with today? Since my goal is for this version of the program to generate Spin Assembler code, it shouldn't matter what you are using for the hardware target.

So perhaps the FV-1 development board is not a strict requirement.

schrab · Post by **schrab** » Fri Apr 19, 2013 3:28 am

I'm using couple clones of Robert Wolgajev's devices. One is RS-232 programmed, another using PICkit programmer.
UPD: Oh, i'm dumb =)
I don't need hex if it generates SpinASM code =)

Digital Larry · Post by **Digital Larry** » Wed May 08, 2013 6:49 am

Anyone else want to volunteer to beta test this sucker? I could use a couple more.

Alex MAK · Post by **Alex MAK** » Thu May 09, 2013 10:37 am

Hi Digital Larry! It is with great pleasure ready to try testing your program! I have an interest in it!

LeftyStrat · Post by **LeftyStrat** » Sat May 18, 2013 7:42 pm

I'd certainly love to beta test if there are any openings. I just joined the forum, I'm a programmer by day and an amp and fx builder by night (analog until this point).

ronaldb · Post by **ronaldb** » Mon May 20, 2013 11:24 am

I would also like to test this software.
I have the FV-1 development board and some program experiance.

RonaldB

direct · Post by **direct** » Thu May 30, 2013 8:25 am

I am very interested in test this software

B.C. · Post by **B.C.** » Thu Jun 06, 2013 9:18 am

I too would like to be a Beta tester!