dracosilver_furcadia wrote:

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> How would i go about creating a program for the e-reader and
> compiling/testing it? I can figure out how to create the dot-codes
> from the files, but creating those files is what I can't figure out.
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> Any help is appreciated.
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> Thanks!
>
> Sincerely,
> Jonathan Herr

Somebody cracked the encryption/CRC on the dotcodes and wrote a program
to convert the raw program and data into a bitmap. There's another
program to print the bitmaps. (Remember to cut the margin the right
size; use an official card as a sample.) You can't just print them from
any program because the scaling messes up the dots' readability. I
tried to print the Bombsweeper sample program on my Lexmark Z22, but I
just kept getting read errors on both normal inkjet paper and Kodak
photo paper. Later I might try using an older (really stubborn) inkjet
or a really old 24-pin dot-matrix. The author's suggestion to correct
this is to examine the printed output with a scanner or microscope and
see if you can see any problems. Also try other DPI settings. (The
output is never quite the same size as an official dotcode, but this
doesn't seem to bother the eReader, but trying to scale it to the right
size makes it completely unreadable.)
The actual tools:
http://users.skynet.be/firefly/gba/e-reader/tools/index.htm
Some info: http://users.skynet.be/firefly/gba/e-reader/index.htm

-Joe McKenzie