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0 AMIGA C MANUAL - "DEVICES"
0.1 INTRODUCTION
This is the fifth manual of the Amiga C Encyclopedia. This
manual explains how to use the special "devices" like the
timer, gameport, audio, narrator, trackdisk, serial, parallel,
and printer devices. The devices are rather straight forward
to use and can do almost everything you need.
0.2 CHAPTERS
Here is a list of the chapters in this manual:
1. Devices Explains how to use the special devices.
Both synchronous and asynchronous
requests are explains, how to wait and
check for errors etc... Read this chapter
before you continue with the following
chapters.
2. Timer Device Demonstrates the timer device, how to
set timer requests, different timer
modes and how to use the special timer
functions. 4 examples are included.
3. Gameport Device Describes the gameport device, and how
to collect joystick and mouse
information. This is the "clean" way to
read gameport events. 4 examples are
included.
4. Audio Device Explains how to play sounds with the
four audio channels, and how to construct
waveforms. Everything from playing a
simple tune to sampled sounds in stereo
is explained. 6 examples are included.
5. Narrator Device The narrator device is used when you want
the Amiga to read a text. Used together
with the Translator library you can let
the Amiga read complete sentences. By
altering the volume, pitch, sex, speed etc
can very different types of voices be
used. 6 examples are included.
6. Trackdisk Device The trackdisk device controls the low
level disk drive routines. With it you
can directly and very fast read complete
tracks, format disks, etc... Several
support routines are included with which
you easily can create disk copy and disk
viewer programs just to mention a few.
4 examples are included.
7. Serial Device Describes how to use the serial device
to send and collect data with the serial
port. 4 examples are included.
8. Parallel Device Describes how to use the parallel device
to send and collect data with the
parallel port. 4 examples are included.
9. Printer Device Explains how to use the printer device
to print text, change printer mode and
styles etc... With it you can even print
graphics. 4 examples are included.
0.3 CHAPTER PICTURES
In the directory "ChapterPictures" you will find a collection
of 9 pictures. These pictures are supposed to be printed
and put in front of each chapter in this manual.