Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/01/17/00:23:15
suma AT xtra DOT co DOT nz (Alex Clifford Henderson) wrote:
>brennan AT mack DOT rt66 DOT com (Brennan "The Rev. Bas" Underwood) wrote:
>>You can snag BCD at http://brennan.home.ml.org/programming/
>>or via FTP at ftp.rt66.com:/users/brennan/bcd_100.zip
>>or via my usual DJGPP page at http://brennan.home.ml.org/djgpp/
>>in the Sound section.
>>But seriously, snag it and test it. It should work well, and it ought to be
>>a reasonably good example of doing ioctl() commands w/DJGPP.
>Well what a bastard, I was just putting the finishing touches on my
>CD-Audio library (which aint pretty when you examine it closely) but
>never 2 mind... Im sure yours is better, mine was called TwinCD and
>included a nifty triffits CDA_xxxxxx class C++ class heirachy which
>included Player/Tracks/Positioning/Checksuming & support for some
>swapping drives...but It had some problems...and some little
>performance issues which needed adressing (it allocated a block of dos
>memory for a cd_request call as a temporary pm->real memory
>go-between, wrote to the memory, called the interrupt, and the wrote
>back to the pm memory and then freed the dynamicly allocated ms-dos
>memory after every issue of a cd command.
>well maybe I will port my lovely C++ classes over to the BCD library,
>I never use CD-Audio anyway... thats what my stereo's for. I use my
>CD-Rom drive to stir my coffee (vibrates that much) and use my fake
>SB-Compatible haha card as coffe cup mat.
>tis a dismal day indeed when a better product comes out before a worse
>one :-)
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my gosh, what's this doing here? I though I had deleted that posting
for lameness reasons.... oh well, the damage is done.
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