Hi everyone, thanks for posting in this thread. It looks like Gnum generated enough interest in my software and has really been pushing me to sell it publicly, so I'll give it a go.
I thought it would be a good idea to post some more information about all of this and announce the plans for a release. The great news is that code is stable and has seen plenty of use. I wrote Hjälper back in February, 2009, and have made very few changes to it since then. SharkScope says I've played nearly 38k sngs since then; Gnum's had it for almost a year and cranked out over 10k games with it; JechtSphere's had it for a little less than that and has tested it with over 26k games. There are a couple other guys out there who have used it for thousands of additional games, too, but I won't call them out by name (but they are welcome to post).
I could ship it as is, but I'd like to polish it up a bit before releasing it publicly. I'm going to aim for having a private beta ready to go next Saturday (15th) and if all goes well, go public with it a week later (22nd).
In case it wasn't clear from the OP, this software only works with Xbox 360 controllers. There are several reasons for this: first, it's a lot easier to program software using a gamepad when you can use Microsoft's XNA framework (which happens to only support Xbox 360 controllers...imagine that!); secondly, the Xbox 360 controller is nice (imo), cheap ($30 from Amazon.com), and ubiquitous; thirdly, supporting software is far easier when you have tight control over the hardware (think how Apple does things).
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Originally Posted by _dave_
Personally I'm paranoid enough to happily pay for a computer twice as fast to have code I can read in many cases lol.
Paranoia is understandable when lots of money is involved. I'm open to the idea of letting a trusted third party review the code or the possibility of selling source code licenses (the terms would not allow selling derivative copies, of course).
I think a lot of you have firewalls that prevent outgoing connections from unknown programs and monitoring a session with
Wireshark would show any outgoing connections. Hjälper won't make any network connections and without any network connections, there's not much it could do that's malicious.