milogone
February 3rd, 2001, 05:46 AM
Found this tidbit and wanted to share, "Well, I said before in this forums, - Dave, be careful what you do, don't make the enemy think he needs a bigger weapon... you didn't listen, you asked for it. what about this nice shinning little board I have in hands right now... a tinny emulator, 3 x 2.5", fits inside any receiver, better with 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation units, just remove card slot cable from the IRD main board and connect to emulator connector. The emulator cable goes into the original socket where it was the card slot cable connected. Emulator board fits in between the card slot and the IRD board. You still using the IRD card slot to insert your card, nothing appears to be different from outside. When you remove and reinsert the card, the emulator board reloads to its RAM (emulating the card eeprom) a saved copy of a functional eeprom image saved in its own eeprom (untouchable by the IRD)... nice? yes, it is. guess what? bye bye large PC's to emulate. the little board steals power from the IRD and do all the nice work. the best part? this little board microcontroller is ready to be reprogrammed to work with HU's... this is our latest weapon, you asked for it, now, try to find a way to avoid 200 thousand of this little circuit board emulator to be installed around. quess what? do you think it needs the atr to be answered correctly? guess what card I am using? asked me if this card was one of the poorly "disabled" by dave at the "light gray Sunday"... price for this tinny emulator? hehe, look for advertizements next week at your local Wal*Mart... kidding, just wait for the first 10,000 circuit boards be produced, then it will be announced. Where? UK? Canada? I guess now dave will be after me... here at the outbacks?"