07-17-2010, 05:58 PM
Just a quick update on this thread.
Joe Fugate has posted on the MRH website (http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/disco...dex?page=2) that NMRA has agreed that they want to take over the maintenance of the Model Train Magazine Index, and another person has gotten hold of the original programmer (Jeff Scherb), who apparently has replied ""If Kalmbach releases their rights to the index I might be able to assist".
It has not been confirmed (at least not yet) that Kalmbach has actually given the software and it's rights to the NMRA.
Still - if they have the original programmer available, and Kalmbach actually releases it's right, it should be possible to write software to extract data from the old program without having to retort to reverse engineering of binaries.
Time will tell how this one progresses.
Smile,
Stein
Joe Fugate has posted on the MRH website (http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/disco...dex?page=2) that NMRA has agreed that they want to take over the maintenance of the Model Train Magazine Index, and another person has gotten hold of the original programmer (Jeff Scherb), who apparently has replied ""If Kalmbach releases their rights to the index I might be able to assist".
It has not been confirmed (at least not yet) that Kalmbach has actually given the software and it's rights to the NMRA.
Still - if they have the original programmer available, and Kalmbach actually releases it's right, it should be possible to write software to extract data from the old program without having to retort to reverse engineering of binaries.
Time will tell how this one progresses.
Smile,
Stein