On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Nathan McCorkle <nmz787@gmail.com> wrote:
-- I'm pretty sure, from the talks I had with Josh and Tito, that a fake
file on a 'disk drive' was chosen to read/write from to get around
having to install serial port drivers on different platforms. Not
really sure why, since FTDI has royalty-free drivers for most/all
platforms.
Yup. We didn't want users to have to configure serial ports which can be quite a pain, especially for non-techie issues. We also didn't want to deal with accessing serial ports in a platform-independent manner (the AIR platform doesn't help), nor did we want to write and distribute our own OpenPCR USB driver on multiple platforms. So we chose this hack instead :) The only thing I don't like is we couldn't get Windows to stop opening an explorer window when you plug it in.
-Josh
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