if i were to write a history it would go something like this...
.... In the begining ....
Back on the old CPA fan forum it was talked about for a while about how to go about looking into asm on the calc. I saw that and looked in to it on my own, sometime in early december 2000. I had farmboy helping me since I did not have a link cable back then. I had written a couple of early documents about the cfx structure which now are very far off but this was before we knew they were encoded and compressed. I think mohammed still has them on his site. this was late in 2000. During this time i was asking for help in testing my research. during this time BradN contacted me about the cfx being encoded and compressed. as soon as he brought this up, the first Add-In Packager version was finished and released on January 14, 2001. I also posted the release message to the old old old old french forum. After I released AIP i got a message from someone known as "polite" telling me about LeadFiner and his non-progress at the time. I looked at he had done, he had been able to get programs to the calculator but could not run them. He had made a program that did some basic sending of the memory zones, though i believe his largest reason in not succeeding was that he did not yet know about the rom-disk structure he needed.
Anyways, that was the start of AIP, very soon Brad and I started doing other things and investigating the Casio protocol, and I started work on Commander. Libthium got started on FlashCom after i requested him to make a DLL for me to use in Commander until i got my own routines tuned and ready to use, we exchanged alot of information about how the casio works. Sometime around this time LeadFiner released FlashEditor, which i do not know about as far as its development.
Conclusions: there are parallels in the history of the Casio development, it is unfair to say one was a foundation for the other. and it is still also unfair to say Commander is based on other work because it is completely untrue, if it was true i would not have spent nearly the amount of time i did in making it. it is completely original work, not a touch of outside development, and most likely there wont be because of where it is going (unless someone cracks the RXE structure before me

). this is not to say that i wouldnt use any, just that when i need it, nobody has done it yet.
maybe the french developers didnt need us, maybe we didnt need them.. anyway it is, having more than enough is better than not having enough.
- dscoshpe -