--- In gbadev@yahoogroups.com, Joe McKenzie <me@j...> wrote:
>
> dracosilver_furcadia wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Any help is appreciated.
> >
> > 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

So with those tools I should be able to create the raw programs and data?