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Alfons version 0.99 beta
Copyright (C) 1996-98 Mikael Kjellström
What do Alfons do?
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Alfons is a program that copies the information from a Audio Compact
Disk (CD) digitaly. Because it copies the information (ones and zeros)
digitaly there is no quality loss. It makes a perfect digital copy of
the original information (CD) and saves it as a standard RIFF WAVE
or a RAW PCM-file on your harddrive. Not all CD-ROM drives supports
this thou. For a list of CD-ROM drives that is tested with Alfons,
see below.
Known bugs / missfeatures
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- Alfons doesn't check if there is enough space free on the harddrive
before writing to the harddrive.
- Only 44100 Hz samples and 16-bit samples are supported. Althou it is
possible to have a CD with 22050 Hz samplerate I have never seen one.
Please mail me a note if you do see one.
Future enhancments
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- Rewrite the program as a PM-program.
- Add de-jitter support for CD-drives that makes jitter noise when
grabbing tracks. If anyone have a de-jitter algorithm please send it
to me so that I can add it to alfons.
Tested CD-ROM's that works with Alfons
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If you have a CD-ROM drive that works with Alfons, please send me a
note of brand and model to one of the addresses below and it will be
included in future releases of Alfons.
Below is a list of tested CD-ROM drives that is capable of Digital
Transfer:
Toshiba XM-3201, XM-3401, XM-3501, XM-3701 (SCSI)
Toshiba XM-5602B (IDE)
Sony CDU-31A, CDU-33A (IDE)
Panasonic CR-562B (IDE)
Panasonic CR-562-J (Gravis Ultrasound MAX)
Nakamichi MJ4.4 (SCSI?)
Plextor PX-83CS, PX-20TS (SCSI), PX-32TS (SCSI)
The built in CD-ROM in IBM's Think Pad 760CD (IDE?)
Pioneer DR-A10X (IDE)
NEC 8V (IDE)
Wearnes Peripherals International CDD-820 (IDE)
Samsung CD-Master 8E SCR-830 (IDE?)
Funai E2850UA (IDE)
+ many more
Errorlevels returned by Alfons
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Alfons returns the following errorlevels:
0 No error
1 Fatal error
2 Commandline error
3 Drive not ready
Getting the latest version of Alfons
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The latest version of Alfons can be downloaded from the Alfons home
page. The URL is: "http://www.algonet.se/~mikkje/alfons.html".
Contacting the author
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If you want to contact me for any reason such as reporting bugs,
requests for a specific feature, make a job offering or maybe even make
a donation you can reach me on one of the following addresses:
Snailmail:
Mikael Kjellström
Grimstagatan 120
162 56 VÄLLINGBY
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
Email:
Mikael Kjellström, 2:201/293.100 (fidonet)
mikkje@algonet.se (internet)