Are you referring to just the hardware?
Have to talk to Todd about that idea, the hardware was his brainchild.
So you'd basically want a chip hardware setup, and some bins to play with?
Not sure how much different this is than what we sell now, other than you'd want it cheaper....
My suggestion some weeks ago was to give a sample 3bar bin with some documentation on what exactly the differences were wrt the stock bin. This would involve a bit of work I imagine mostly on the part of BG.
I am still leaning towards no. Make this part of the game too easy for everyone, pretty soon you can get my programs from ATR, KB and any goon. There are 2 parts to what makes my programs unique - the 3 bar code portion, and the calibration portion.
I know you want to think of this like an open source, Linux kinda thing.. and I like that idea as well. Problem is that I feel I've invested too much into this to just go and give it away. It isn't something I just did in my spare time, at lunch or on break. Open source works because everyone contributes, there is no one to cash in on it. In this setup, I feel like I'd just be giving my resources out freely, with no return contribution, and possibly giving others the opportunity to cash in on my work.
One of the main reasons I spent all that time doing the chip work was that I had it in mind that no one else was going to do that work (3 bar conversion) and I'd be reimbursed for that work. If I quit after that point... and I had settled financially for my time invested, I'd give 'em away. Now I've got a lot more time invested into support, and updated calibrations, and 50# calibrations and so forth.. which I'm selling updates of for cheap. If I had any business scruples (or common sense?? No one else in their right mind spends the time I did and gives it away), I'd be selling those updates for another couple hundred bucks.
The Buick guys have been doing chips for a WHILE, and while their prices have come down, and no one GIVES programs away (with the exception of Thrasher). The multichip costs are still $200-300, mainly because it is a much simpler design than the Ultimate setup (no memcal, just a simple eprom). Tom Chou of Thrasher got frustrated with bootleggers and people stealing programs, so he gave up selling programs, quit doing Buick stuff completely. R&D has all but ceased with those.
Sorry, but these kinda requests rub me the wrong way...