Not all colour DMD artists demand donations for their work, in many cases I think you'll find they are optional and a simple friendly request to the artist will get you what you want - please and thank you goes a long way. Some of the artists actively refuse donations. Is $5 or $10 to add extra sparkle to your pinball machine really a lot to ask? I don't think so, and I'm one of the ones who refuses!

As for comparing the result of the output of the rival product with the OPs DMD, I guess we will have to wait for a working product before we can come to that conclusion. As it stands, the rival product you are discrediting does currently offer a greater library of working coloured titles.

I am excited my some of the features shown in the magic editor and the potential these could offer an artist like me, I see some ideas I have even toyed with myself in my own custom app I use for dump analysis. I do wonder if the auto-split feature will be as useful as expected, it may work well with short sequences but I wonder how this will deal with broken up dynamic sequences of several hundred or thousand frames that start and stop at different points across multiple dumps. I do see some features here that look really useful and would save me some time compared to the current editor I use, but until I know my work will not be wasted effort - even if it's only 7-10 days wasted effort - I am not willing to try, sorry.

I will add that I am neither German, or a troll, just a DMD colour artist who was inspired by the likes of Malenko (thanks buddy) and others, and gets a buzz from other people enjoying my work.

Thanks for crediting me with an education, I'm glad it shows. I haven't made up my mind about you yet because I'm not sure what any of your response has to do with the fact I don't accept donations for my DMD colour work or that I won't work with your software until I know the output is assured. Regrettably you took my post as an opportunity to further flame and discredit rather than address my genuine concerns as a DMD colour artist and the get topic back on track, which I will try asking explicitly one final time:

1. How will your auto-split feature work with long sequences > 500 frames? I find this is the most time consuming portion of my work, but I see no reference to this in posts about your magic editor. If I am to colour in game in just the 7-10 days you imply, I will need to address these kinds of scenes fast and easy - how can/will you achieve this?
2. When can I expect to see a working firmware? This is the biggest block for me as an artist - I am not trying to incite a row, it's a genuine concern with respect to if I should start using your software.

The age of my pinside account should have nothing to do with it really, the fact you made this accusation in your first response to me is a little disconcerting, but that's your prerogative. If you want to get the pitch fork and tin foil hat out, go for it. While I have certainly spoken to and dealt with the people you accuse of being trolls (and I don't believe they are), I am in no way affiliated to them, or indeed anyone else, on this forum.

I will finish that the last person to invite the comparison between this and your rival products was yourself in post #1050. If you don't like the comparisons being made, perhaps don't make them yourself.

I did try using the magic editor shortly after you first released it, though admittedly I have not tried since then as I have been working on other things. I tried importing my dumps from STTNG as I had recently completed that project and liked what I saw - the ability to see sequences of frames with hashes is really useful and something I would love to have as navigating between frames to get this information can be tricky - I eventually wrote my own tool to do this, but having it inline in the editor is undeniably a great time saving feature. There are other "quirks" with the current editor I use that are no doubt not a problem in your application, though I didn't spend a great deal of time experimenting as ultimately there would be nothing to show for it - yes I may have some coloured dots on-screen, but dots on-screen look nothing like dots on-panel - you must know this yourself!

I appreciate you responding to my questions - these were not prompted, I am not colluding with anyone, nor were they an an incitement for argument, they are genuine concerns as a colour artist. I don't use Facebook so haven't seen anything you posted there, and while I have read through this entire thread in the past, it is now 20something pages long and I don't see any recent reference to release time frames. If this information has already been stated, then I am sorry I didn't see it - with respect, you tell me you have repeated everything else many times, but you didn't repeat that bit of information!!

I am sorry you don't like my acquaintances - please remember I have no control over who likes or dislikes my comments; if I dislike all their previous comments, will this help you respect me more? Regardless, I will follow your advice and move along elsewhere - thanks for your time and good luck.