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Miscellaneous
Unranked Highlights of our principal engineer: Fibre
Channel SIM : Developed from scratch the PCI support code for a high
end line of 2GBit PCI-X Fibre Channel cards for the Macintosh, its loader
management software, and enhanced the configuration tool. It perfectly
supports the JNI Inc. chip using their sequencer source code. I engineered
a fully compliant SCSI Manager SIM and support tools for allowing these
cards to be used with all popular RAID drivers on Macintoshes. It was coded
for safety and speed and my code achieves over 20,400 individual completed
block IO requests per second per controller channel. It transfers 185 megabytes
per second per connector, sustained, on mid-range macs. The cards are 2
gigabit per port per direction PCI-X cards capable of over 760 megabytes
per second bidirectionally on PCI-X computers, though Macintoshes are currently
limited to 488 megabytes per second (XServe). All PCI macs are supported,
and it supports FABRIC switches as well as LOOP. The SIM "driver for card"
supports unloading, and even supports switching from interrupt mode to
polled mode for ultra-high speed IP packet throughput. It supports a long
list of technical features, including supporting over 60,000 devices (using
LUNs) simultaneously and supporting 2000 IOs in the card simultaneously
and completing up to 4 IOs per interrupt. |
| Animation
Buddy [vertical market tool] : This small application for Macintosh
is used in "stop motion" claymation photography of multi-angle artwork
(camera films subject from many angles and attitudes). It is also used
with a fixed camera. Features include ingenious usage of live tweening
assistance by actually showing a color transparent overlay of the previous
animation frame blended atop the current video frame! All slight deviations
can be tracked. Frames can be stepped forward or back, and a overlay grid
of colored cells can be also superimposed for geometrical spacial estimations.
It addresses QuickTime VDIG components directly, avoiding the Sequence
Grabber, to support the maximum number of video capture cards, though not
all cards support video blending. It also can be used remotely and is controllable
via PPC (Process to Process communication) over a network, for use as a
slide presentation system. It could even render image files direct to screen
memory in bands without being decompressed to RAM first, and hundreds of
small technological features. It scans folders for PICT files that can
be used as slides or various Chroma Key colors or color bars and presented
in a selection list over a network. Animation Buddy is superior to the
primitive black and white video animation tools used on Amigas used by
multimillion dollar claymation studios |
| FWB
CD-ROM ToolKit v1.0 to 1.5.2 : Consists of three different portions:
a universal SCSI driver for CD-ROM and CDR drives, a caching and pre-scanning
acceleration module, and an audio player/controller.
The product I wrote received awards of 4 mice from MacUser magazine, 4 stars from MacWorld magazine, 4 diamonds from MacWeek, and wide acclaim of industry luminaries in written testimonial from people such as Eric Shapiro, Bob Levitus, and Jerry Pournelle. Summary of CD-ROM Toolkit features: The driver enables any popular third party mechanism to be 100% compliant with Apples CDROM driver specifications. Additionally the driver enables nearly any device to be Kodak Photo CD compatible, including devices claimed to be fundamentally incompatible in public statements by their manufacturers. The acceleration portion of the driver includes over 10 different caching algorithms, read-ahead read-behind caching, as well as pre-scanning directory structures and file related information to locations on the main hard disk for very fast browsing of CD-ROMs. Pre-scanning to hard disk and memory is transparently performed in the background and makes CD-ROM usage very enjoyable. Version (1.2) offered fast dynamic RAM caching, scatter-gather readahead streaming optimization, and other performance enhancements. I also added SCSI Manager 4.3, PowerPC acceleration, multiple bus support, asynchronous data transfer, and more. The player portion of the program is a simple remote control audio player (volume, speaker sourcing, fast forward scanning, play, pause, etc.), but sports a beautiful color interface and is competently designed. The Player was originally Macintosh Desk Accessory (DA), but I changed into a Application when I added CD+G (CD+Graphics) video player Karaoke playback. CD+G players are very uncommon in the computer industry, but I pioneered it with CD-ROM Toolkit. The player also extracts digital audio directly into .AIFF files. It also plays back 16-bit audio files better than any mac programs I have encountered, especially with the mouse button held down indefinitely. The driver does countless things not found in any other CD-ROM driver. I supported over 78 different devices and Photo CD support was possible on all of them except 5 old devices. Over the years, after I left FWB, a few other utilities have been added to the product, but the driver and audio utilities exist as I implemented them. The product I wrote received awards of 4 mice from MacUser magazine, 4 stars from MacWorld magazine, 4 diamonds from MacWeek, and wide acclaim of industry luminaries in written testimonial from people such as Eric Shapiro, Bob Levitus, and Jerry Pournelle. It was in the top 10 unit sales lists for Mac utilities, 7 months of its first 12 months of its existence. The primary reason for its success was that it made browsing CD-ROMs feel as quick as hard disks. Eventually all Mac Clones were shipped with it such as PowerComputing and Motorola UMAX computers. Sales suffered in recent years due to engineering neglect and errors introduced in later versions after I left the product. (A wholly repaired and UltraDMA 66 speed-boosted version with DVD-ROM support exists that I worked on for potential for-spec distribution.) Current (2000) product spec pages URL : www.fwb.com/cs/cdt/main.html |
 Spin-O-Rama
[vertical market tool]: Spin-O-Rama was written in 1994. It is a tool
that allows a person to freely rotate an object on the screen in one or
more axis, with variable resolution coverage of the more interesting angles.
Unlike Oct 2000 QuickTime 5.0 Cubic VR, which uses only 6 key frames for
omni-angle viewing, my 1994 technology requires hundreds of frames. Extremely
fast RAID systems (as fast as RAM) display selected angles directly to
screen, with no delay, unlike the visible lag delays in modern Quicktime
5.0 Cubic VR. This was a vertical market solution and multi-thousand dollar
disk arrays with exotic 2-head per surface drives (Seagate 12450Ws) were
utilized to pump this data to the screen at 34 megabytes per second. Nothing
else has ever been written to achieve this. Eventually I upgraded the technology
to composite compressed region artwork to the screen. |
| Quickest-Time
: [vertical market tool] : Apples Quicktime was about 9 times slower
than my Quickest-Time when playing huge full screen video files that did
not use compression. Compression using Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) cards, is fuzzy
and incapable of true 640*480 16 bit and 32 bit color and usually limited
to 6 megabytes per second. This technology has no such compromises. Using
uncompressed video eventually became possible in other products many years
after this tool was invented. It was written for video effect playback,
and previewing beautifully rendered 3D animation sequences. |
| "You
Bet Your Head!" [trivia game] : "You Bet Your Head!" was the precursor
to a subsequent trivia game from Berkely Systems called "You Don't Know
Jack and part of After Dark 3.0 . My game was such a success that at trade
shows it alone was the "grand finale" for the product demonstration of
After Dark 3.0. And in all print reviews, whenever screenshots were present,
"You bet Your Head!" was highlighted. Furthermore, when the entire v3.0
product had to be summarized into barely two sentences and one screenshot
for MacWorld magazine, "You bet Your Head!" was the product synopsis and
sole screenshot. It was cult-hit and sales were phenomenal. I remember
"After Dark 3.0" often appearing in the top ten unit sales listings (alongside
my CD-ROM Toolkit!). Apple liked it, and in 1996 distributed "After Dark
3.0" among only 7 other select 3rd party products on the CD-ROM distributed
with PowerMac models (9500, 8500, 7600, 7200). [Apple press release August
21 1996] |
| etc etc etc : Countless other products recently, including USB and USB class drivers, MP3 decoding, CDR mastering to multiple drives in parallel, live video backdrops with 3D imagery in foreground, disk volume restoration, CD C1/C2 error correction bit analyzers in DLL and LabView, major robotic machinery control applications, auto relauncher tools, cross platform shells, and much much more. |
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