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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)
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...).