From: suma AT xtra DOT co DOT nz (Alex Clifford Henderson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,rec.games.programmer
Subject: Re: BCD v1.0: A CD-ROM audio playing library
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 08:27:48 GMT
Organization: TWINS Software
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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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