[V8] The Bentley V8 microfiche

[Karl Middlebrooks]

I took a break earlier today to reinstall my Bentley V8 CD and poke around in the files; looks like the Bentley folks must have had some problems with people buying their software, then bootlegging it...the content is stored in some proprietary format that I can't sort out, and won't spend too much time on. After all, while I'm not that impressed with the quality of that particular Bentley product, the $100 I paid to get what they make available was a worthwhile investment. They've got a new version of the eBahn reader available for a $20 upgrade, so maybe the application itself has improved.

Besides, the time I'd spend goofing around with their files, I should really spend...say...figuring out how to replace the alternator and/or voltage regulator in V8 #1. It looks so sad just sitting under the carport unable to move.


> ------------Original Message------------
> From: dsaad at icehouse.net
> To: v8 at audifans.com
> Date: Wed, Feb-8-2006 7:52 AM
> Subject: RE: [V8] Fuses, relays, and oh my
>
> If the images are a standard format (like gif,jpg,pdf etc) and you can 
> identify
> them, then it would be possible to build a HTML or Browser type 
> interface for
> them. One of the big problems with the scanned manual was the image 
> quality was
> not that great.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> Quoting Karl Middlebrooks <coalblacksmith at gmail.com>:
> 
> > I haven't fired up the V8 Bentley CD in quite a while, but I recall
> > absolutely despising the interface. The application feels like it was
> > designed in the early 1990's and never updated. The first thing I 
> wanted to
> > do when I got it installed was redesign the whole thing, but never 
> poked
> > around enough on the CD long enough to figure out if it would be easy 
> or
> > difficult to port to something nicer and platform-neutral (since 
> Mac/Linux
> > users not running VPC/VMWare are out of luck).
> >
> > Karl
> > 90 V8Q Silver/grey 238k
> > 90 V8Q Grey/black 136k
> >
> >
> > > ------------Original Message------------
> > > From: dsaad at icehouse.net
> > >
> > > this way. I have never seen the official Bently CD, but I am sure 
> it is
> > > much
> > > nicer.
> >
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