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- Short: CD player for CD32/Archos/Cache-DFS/cd.device.
- Type: disk/cdrom
- Author: dan@blender.demon.co.uk (Dan Cannon)
- Uploader: dan@blender.demon.co.uk (Dan Cannon)
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- DCPlayer - another pulsating Blender Software (BS) production
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-
- It's yet another music CD player. This one sits quietly in the background and
- watches the buttons on the control pad (or joystick) plugged into controller
- port 1.
-
- So now it's possible to play CDs whilst doing something else using Workbench.
- When it's time to swap CDs or skip tracks you just press a button on the pad
- and carry on with what you were doing before, instead of shuffling through
- windows or screens, clicking on something, then finding your way back.
-
- I really wrote it to help me sample CDs - I find that the CD32 control pad is
- faster to use than my stereo and I don't want wires trailing across the room
- - instead I have a sampler that's connected from the SX-1's parallel port to
- the CD32's audio output, some sample software, and this to skip to the right
- place on the CD before starting sampling. Easy, eh?
-
- And another good reason - at the moment nobody's found out a way of ripping
- audio data from CD to memory with cd.device. So this is the next best thing.
-
-
- So, what does it work on?
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- Any Amiga with a CD drive and cd.device. That means the CD32.
-
- It also works on the A1200 with the Archos Overdrive CD drive. It should work
- with the Squirrel drive, but that hasn't been tested.
-
- It should also work on big box Amigas with a SCSI or IDE CD drive and either
- Kickstart 3.1 or Cache-CDFS or some other CD32 emulation software, but I
- haven't tested it on that.
-
- It needs lowlevel.library. It's built into the CD32. If you've got a normal
- Amiga you can copy this from practically any CD32 CD to the LIBS: directory.
- Or it's already there if you've upgraded to Kickstart 3.1.
-
- It doesn't work with the CDTV or A570 because those machines use cdtv.device
- and I don't have any info on that. Ho hum.
-
-
- Version 1.0 -> 1.1
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-
- - The program can be started and stopped properly from the Workbench. There's
- no need for scripts or IconX or any of that rubbish. Instead you just click
- on the icon the first time to run it and again to remove it.
- - From the shell, if you run the program the first time it starts and if you
- run it again it stops (similar to the Workbench). There's no need to mess
- around with CTRL-C or BREAK any more (but they still work though).
- - You can drag it to WBStartup and it works properly too. You can even get
- rid of it later as well. Hurrah.
- - You can choose to have a display of what's happening to the CD (stop, play,
- pause, etc...) put on the screen. It's similar to the display you get at
- the bottom right of the screen when you play CD+Gs on the CD32. It stays on
- the screen all the time (even if you flip or drag or autoscroll screens).
- - Loop works properly now.
- - CDs with mixed data and audio tracks work better on the CD32 and work on
- the Archos.
- - When the drive door is open and eject is pressed, it closes (suggested by
- John Middleton, probably his most useful thought so far this year...).
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