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UR © 1991 by Greg Cunningham (Plink: BAUDMAN)
UR is a replacement sampler/player for the Universal Remote by Jamie Mueller.
This software is FREEWARE, do whatever you want with it.
I found the other software to be too slow for my 68020. It would sometimes
work with my VCR, but would never work with anything else.
I've tested this software with the 68000, and it works fine with my stereo, VCR
and everything else but the Mitsubishi video controller. It seems to use a
really high frequency, but the 68020 handles it well.
I put this hack together kinda quick, so it's not all that great.
Sampling usage:
UR SAMPLE <file> [file] [file] ...
Playing usage
UR <file> [file] [file] ...
When playing, it will work with multi-selected icons and MS-DOS style pattern
matching in any argument. If you enter a directory name it plays every file,
sorta like LIST. Sorry, I just grabbed an old recursive/icon startup module.
Example: to change the TV channel to 12 use: "UR 1 2" or "UR FH1:TV/1 FH1:TV/2"
When sampling, give it all the filenames you want to sample to.
Each name will be displayed. At that point press the desired button on the
remote, and it will be sampled, compressed, and written to the file.
It will display "sampled" if everything went well, or "failed" if it couldn't
write to the file. To abort press the left mouse button.
Example: "UR SAMPLE 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Power QuickView VolUP VolDN Mute ChUP ChDN"
These samples are normally around 40K-60K on the '020, and compress down to
about 2K. I haven't tested it with a 68030, so it might be too fast and may
complete before the remote is done. If so, try running NoFastMem or changing
the program's code hunk to CHIP.
This program disables multi-tasking and interrupts when waiting for the remote,
sampling, and playing, so it could cause errors in a telecomm file transfer or
if you sample to a harddisk or play files from the HD, but I haven't had any
problems yet.
Final notes:
Many thanks to Jamie Mueller for his schematics and making this possible!
Other than forgetting to connect the power and ground to both chips and
and having to IR LED backwards, I've had lots of fun with this thing, and
plan to have more.
If you are planning to build this and forget to look at the specs for these
chips, or can't get ahold of them, here's what's missing from the schematics.
SA74LS245
pin 20 = Vcc
pin 10 = GND
7404
pin 14 = Vcc
pin 7 = GND
and, if you can't figure out the LED, the anode (non-flat side) goes to power.
The Radio Shack high output IR LED is backwards from normal LED's, or maybe
I'm just nuts.
One last note on sampling :-)
I just need sample cuz noone says it's wrong.
It's so easy to evolve using someone else's songs.
Everybody wants to be a star in modern days,
but if I don't have talent then I'll just get by this way.
-- Metal Church (The Human Factor)