Date   : Sat, 23 Jan 2016 22:24:13 +0100
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: 5 minutes of your time please

Hi,?

If you make the diagnosis system work using some sort of scripting engine, 
it can be extended to cover new faults (consider bit rot of the PALs, exploding 
capacitors, or other faults that occur due to age that won't have been in
the service handbooks) plus the possibility of adding data for other members
of the Beeb family (Master [Compact]), Electron, FileStore, co-processor, etc.

I'm not asking you to include all of this, just the ability for it to be
added; and if so the result could be a useful diagnostic aid for the BBC
era machines.

I'm surprised you aren't considering writing an Android app. Java is losing
popularity on the desktop (too many security issues) and Dalvik (or whatever
Google is using these days) is basically a lightly bastardised Java.
God knows there are enough Android phones and tablets around, starting from
silly money up to Apple's price bracket...

Oh and before anybody says an Android app won't work on iOS, neither does
Java. ;-)
Some browsers have a partial JVM, but standard iThingies don't support Java.

Neither does Android, for that matter. You can get an app called JBED but
things get "interesting" if the app is not touchscreen aware and the phone/tablet
has no physical keyboard. ;-)

Java and Flash...they are last decade tech.


Best wishes,?

Rick.?