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WarpRadio 1.0 - Freeware. An OS/2 PM program to control the RadioActive FM Radio card
which was sold through various mail order companies in 1994 by Novex Industries.
This program is freeware. You may use it at no cost, however, I retain the copyright
all the executable code of WarpRadio.
WARNING: This program writes to I/O memory (316-31F hex by default) and should not be run
if you have any cards other than RadioActive at that I/O location. Potential damage
to hardware other than ActiveRadio could occurr in this case. WarpRadio
has been extensively tested and found to work with the RadioActive card.
However, the author of this program will not be held responsible for any damage
WarpRadio may cause by its proper or improper use.
This program may be distributed electronically as long as all files are kept together.
As far as I know, RadioActive is not sold anymore. It came with DOS and Windows software
which work under OS/2 DOS and Win-OS2 sessions. Since I prefer running native OS/2 programs,
I decided, as an exercise, to write my own program for this card and publish it for free
(donations gladly accepted). If you own this card and run OS/2, I would like to know what
you think of it. This program has been tested out by me and found to work properly.
Send me e-mail if you use this program.
The features of WarpRadio are:
- Set volume (off, low, medium and high) for speakers attached to the RadioActive card.
If you have the radio card connected to the Line-In of a SoundBlaster 16 card, then you can
control the volume (32 levels) directly without having to use a mixer program.
- Software scanning for stations. 30 stations can be saved to a table and 10 stations
can be programmed to buttons.
- Fine tuning of stations, to a certain degree.
- All settings are saved and preserved for the next time you use WarpRadio.
- WarpRadio only uses a DLL file and installation does not require a reboot of your system.
- WarpRadio does not need or require the IRQ line to be connected to the radio card.
Installation.
Note: REXX must be installed on your system for this program
to work. Also TESTCFG.SYS must be called out in the CONFIG.SYS
file. TESTCFG.SYS is part of Warp 3.0 and later and you should
check your CONFIG.SYS for a line like:
DEVICE=D:\OS2\BOOT\TESTCFG.SYS
where D is your bootable OS/2 drive.
Also, CONFIG.SYS must contain the line IOPL=YES for WarpRadio to work. A default
installation of Warp 3.0 or later will have this set properly but check for it if
you have problems running WarpRadio.
To install WarpRadio, unzip all files into the same directory. You can create
a shadow of the WRPRADIO.EXE object in a folder of your choice or the desktop
for easy access. To start the program, double-click on the WRPRADIO.EXE object.
Installing this program on your system does not change any of the INI or
CONFIG.SYS files.
Note: When first run, WarpRadio will not write to any memory location. This allows for
configuration of the radio card. If you reconfigure the hardware (or want to see how
WarpRadio looks like), delete the WRPRADIO.CFG file before you run WarpRadio. WarpRadio
obviously does write to I/O when the volume gets changed, any of the 10 channels are
left-clicked on or when START is pressed in the scan window.
I do recommend that WarpRadio be closed whenever you run an installation program. Some installation
programs might use the TESTCFG.SYS driver to sniff out hardware and you could get errors when
two programs are trying to access this driver.
The following files belong to WarpRadio:
- WRPRADIO.EXE The executable main program.
- WRPRADIO.HLP The help file.
- WRPRADIO.TBL Station table. This file is a text file and you
can edit it with any text editor. The format
for this file is in this order: station name,
frequency, data 3, data 2, data 1 and channel
number. All items start with a space, including
the station name. The data values must be in
the range of 0 to 255. The channel numbers range
from 1 to 10 and associate the stations to the
memory channel buttons. A dash is used if a station
is not assigned to a channel. A default table with
three stations is created the first time you run WarpRadio.
- WRPRADIO.CFG Configuration file. Containing radio card I/O address, volume,
last station used, SoundBlaster Base I/O address and SoundBlaster
Enable in this order. This is a text file and can be edited with
any text editor. All I/O addresses are in decimal, volume may be
0, 1, 2, or 3 for RadioActive volume levels, or 0 - 248 for
SoundBlaster volume (if SoundBlaster Enable is 1). The last station
used is a channel number 1-10 and the SoundBlaster Enable is 0 for
disable, 1 for enable. All items are seperated by a space with the
first item starting with a leading space. A default configuration
file is created when WarpRadio is first started. Delete this file
if you reconfigured the RadioActive card to prevent writing to
the wrong port address.
- IORXFUNC.DLL Dynamic Link Library to access radio card.
- VPBevel.DLL Bevel used for WarpRadio display. This is part of the VPExtras package.
Thanks to Dion Gillard for creating and releasing these objects for free!
- VPOBJ.DLL Dynamic Link Library required for VPBevel.DLL
- HISTORY.TXT History of changes to the program.
- README.1ST Program description and installation instructions.
To remove this program from your system, close the program, delete
all your WRPRADIO objects or shadows from your desktop or
folders and delete all the files listed above.
Support
For support, comments and suggestions, please e-mail:
73322.2045@compuserve.com
or visit my home page, "The Warped Code Cellar" at:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/aschw
for other information and applications for OS/2.