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What good is a cable without software to use it with, right? From performance and tuning oriented monitoring, to slick and free, to quick, dirty, and free, for a reasonable price, all the software we know about is right here! Got a site to add? email me! Datamaster We are resellers for TTS Power Systems Datamaster series of software. If you haven't checked this software package out, you can download it for FREE and preview it before buying it. It is AKM Cable compatible, and is perhaps the most comprehensive vehicle specific scan tool available today. They have versions that cover 1990-1995 F, Y, and B body cars, as well as C/K trucks and Syclones / Typhoons. You can download it by going to their website (linked above), clicking on "Software", and then following their pages to the download page. Then you can download the appropriate version for your vehicle. As a reseller, I am able to offer a single platform Datamaster software license for $95. That's $25 off their list price! It kicks the cowpies out of Diacom for its performance oriented interface and logging features! Plus there's no "playing around" with it to get it to work. You buy it today, and it works today. Check it out, you won't be disappointed! If you require additional platform licenses, let me know, and we can work out the pricing. I know the author of Datamaster, and correspond with him directly, so if any bugs are to be reported or and additional features are desirable, I can work with you! The way Datamaster licensing works is that you can download it off of the web, install it on your laptop, and then go to Setup... Authorization Code..., and get the registration number. Email me with that registration number (assuming you've paid me for the software, of course ;) ), and I will obtain the Authorization Code for your software that will unlock the number of runs, and will register you with the TTS user database. The CDROM that I have available for distribution contains exactly the same software as the TTS web site. Same rev level upgrades are handled from the TTS web site (it is version 3.x currently). You simply run the "Uninstall" program to remove your old software, download the latest version from the TTS web site, and run the installation program to put the new software on your laptop. The authorization code will be preserved. But if you have any problems, email me and I'll help. Many people like to run Datamaster on a laptop in the car, but on a desktop for analysis. If your desktop is not going to be hooked to the car, you do not need an additional authorization code for the desktop. Should you desire to purchase additional Platform Copies of Datamaster (for example, say you have a '92 Camaro and a '94 'Camaro), you'd need both version 8D and EE. The first version is $95, each additional is $45. EFILive (formerly Carbytes) Here is a software package that is getting a lot of attention and gaining a lot of followers. Paul Blackmore has written this software with lots of graphics in mind, with multi vehicle compatibility the goal. There is a free version (allows up to one minute of data logging - most dragstrip runs are less than that, we hope, right?), and the full version is available for a nominal charge. You might need to do some datastream legwork on this one. :) Check out these pages: Freescan by Andy Whittaker Here's one of my favorites. I love Andy's GUI, and I don't think he sleeps at night - he works on this software instead! It's *the* package for Lotus owners, and it works with several other vehicles as well. Andy is willing to put other vehicles in to Freescan as well - all he needs is datastream information. I've given him what I have, and he's put it in there (1989 'vette, 1992/3 LT1, 1994/5 LT1). I've used Freescan on my '94 Z28, and it worked great! As the name implies, it's Free. PCMcomm I think this started off as one of those "can it be done?" software packages, and has blown up in to part of LT1_Edit! Specifically targeted towards the 1994/1995 F/B/Y body LT1 cars, it works very well and provides you with a very easy to read, no frills user interface. There is a data logging upgrade version available for a very good price. Dave is a very sharp and very nice guy, I've been running PCMcomm for well over a year now and when I want to check something fast, this is where I turn! Download PCMcomm from http://www.carputing.com/ Carsten Meyer's 1990-1992 TPI Software Here's one I've honestly never worked with, but I've talked to a few folks who have, and they like it. You can read up on it at Carsten's Software Page Craig Moates' 1227165 Software (87-89 TPI) I've played around with this one a little bit on the bench. :) Craig's a really sharp and nice guy, and has a page dedicated to the software that you can get to by clicking here for ECMv165 (you may have to add a / to the end of the link, Tripod doesn't seem to like either way that I link to this directory). View the Text document that's in that directory first. Craig can also be found frequenting the Thirdgen.org EPROM programming section. Peter Gargano's Pages Peter's done a lot of work documenting both the 8192 baud datastream and the 160 baud PWM datastream, and has posted some software on his site. More focused on Aussie implementations, it's nonetheless a great resource of information. See it by clicking here Good old GCAR In the grand scheme of things, GCAR is probably a dinosaur, and needs a good asteroid to put it out of its misery, but it's something to play with. Remember the "quick, dirty, and free" phrase from above? GCAR is it. I didn't write the software, but when I started playing with the datastream 3 years ago, GCAR was all I could find. See it here on my ALDL Information Page EV1 Palm Interface I have no idea if my cable works with this or not, but it definitely deserves an honorable mention award! I do know of other people working on other automotive platforms, but so far the only one I've seen is this one. See Peter's PalmPilot Interface Alex's OBDII Scan Tool Another honorable mention, if you've got an OBDII car in the driveway,
and need a scan tool at a reasonable price, Alex has a good one. It's not
compatible with my cable, Alex builds his own. Works great on the family
'99 Pontiac Montana minivan! It needs more info to be effective in
performance tuning, but as a generic OBDII scan tool, I highly recommend
it - I do own one (for the minivan), and would buy it again! See http://www.obd-2.com/ Other gizmos / software AutoXray XP-240 at http://www.autoxray.com/ Scanmaster from http://www.modernmusclecar.com/ Diacom can be found at http://www.rinda.com/ Ease Diagnostics can be found at http://www.easesim.com/ AutoTap can be found at http://www.obdii.com/
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