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Help file for !SmallRTV
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Application :SmallRTV
Purpose :TV only front end for the RiscTV card
Version :0.03
Author :Leo White
Date :15-03-98
© Leo White, 1998
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SmallRTV is my attempt at writing a TV only front end for Irlam Instruments
RiscTV card. Its currently in a beta stage and simple done to get the
code working, to see how much interest in this sort of program and to
get a few ideas going.
Instructions
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The iconbar icon.
Clicking select on this will open the main window,
in which the Tv output is displayed, and adjust clicking on this icon
will open the remote control window. Menu will bring up the main menu.
The menu.
Info - Opens the info window
Save - Saves the tuning details to disc
Tuning... - Opens the tuning window
Quit - Quits SmallRTV
The tuning window
Channel - Use this to select which channel to change the frequency of.
Frequency - Allows you to change the frequency. Holding down shift
causes a greater change in the frequency value.
The main window
Displays the TV picture. The window automatically resizes to the full
size of the current screen.
The remote window
The top four buttons currently do nothing, but will become..
M - mute
W - Always have window on top
L - Lock aspect
P - Power on/off
The keypad changed the channel. 10 adds 10 to the current channel number.
+/- Volume up and down
C - Select composite input
S - Select S-VHS input
When the window is opened to full size, it will show the video and audio
controls. From here you can increase/decrease the brightness, contrast,
saturation, hue, balance, bass and treble. The text will eventually be replaced
with pretty icons.
And thats about it for the moment. More features will be added as the
program is developed.
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Things to do.
Add pretty icons to the remote control
Add saving of sprites
Improve the tuning window
Display appropiate bar on TV screen when changing bass, brightness etc (Keying
module only)
Display channel numbers on TV screen when changing channels (keying module only)
Tidy up the code lots :)
Add option to remove icon from icon bar, instead open by adjust clicking on
the display manager or palette.
Lots more....
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Program History
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Version 0.01 5-11-97
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-Created basic version, selected correct sprite for window, but
had to use the !RiscTV application to initialise keying functions.
Version 0.02 04-03-98
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-Got details on keying module from Irlam and added keying facilites to
my program.
Version 0.03 Sun 15th March 1998
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-Added scanning of Risc PC's MDF and the A5000 Vidc file for extracting
appropiate details on each mode.
-Added remote window
-Added tuning window
-First 'beta' release
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Disclaimer
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This software is provided as is. The author cannot take responsibility
for any loss of data or any other problems consequent upon the use of
this program.
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Conditions of Use
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This software is freeware. It may be freely distributed as long as no
money is exchanged, apart from cost of distribution i.e. cost of discs,
and that all the original file are included.
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Contacting The Author
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If you wish to contact me, e.g. to tell me about any bugs,
improvements etc. Or if you just want to send me large amounts of
money :) (Well you never know), then you can use the following
methods.
email specific to this program: smallrtv@brighteyes.u-net.com
general email : lptw1@ukc.ac.uk (Should be valid for a few more years yet)
or send mail to
L P T White
208 New Road
West Parley
Ferndown
Dorset
BH22 8EN
Any mail arriving here will be sent on to me at University. So could take
quite some time to reach me.