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- _{_\/_}_ SCSIUtil ANSI GUI V1.0 (03.02.95) _{_\/_}_
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- What is it?
- ===========
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- This program is a "Graphical User Interface" to make life easier
- with the excellent CDRom-sampling utility "SCSIUtil" by Gary Duncan
- and Heiko Rath. It has been written in ARexx and uses ANSI-Codes and
- ASCII-characters to render some graphics.
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- Features
- ========
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- - Audio-Tracks are directly accessible
- - opens on any public screens, at any position
- - window size depends on system-fonts (!)
- - handles left/right/stereo recording and 8/16bit resolution
- - can save preferences (is a textfile, so user can edit it)
- - change sample filename or path
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- What do we need to run?
- =======================
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- 1) SCSIUtil (V2.02 or higher) by Gary Duncan and Heiko Rath.
- Can be found on aminet/disk/cdrom.
- Must be loadable from system's pathes (C: etc).
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- 2) Play16 by Thomas Wenzel. Can be found on aminet/mus/play.
- It is needed to play 16bit and 8bit raw samples produced by SCSIUtil.
- Must be loadable from system's pathes.
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- 3) rexxreqtools.library by Rafael D'Halleweyn.
- Absolutely required to interact with user.
- Can be found within the ReqTools Package, available almost everywhere :)
- (see aminet/util/libs)
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- 4) rexxsupport.library by Commodore Amiga. Should be in LIBS: .
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- Getting started
- ===============
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- Make sure required programs are available.
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- Usage is: rx scsi-gui [<prefsfile>]
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- where <prefsfile> is an optional file to load as preferences.
- It omitted, "S:scsi-gui.prefs" used as default.
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- Preferences
- ===========
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- SCSI-GUI tries to load the prefsfile and takes all information from there.
- If this file is not available, user is prompted for a device and
- a unit. Other variables are set to defaults.
- To see how the prefsfile is built, just save it in the program
- by pressing P and have a look at it. It is very easy to understand.
- You may NOT include any comments in the preferences-file.
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- How to use
- ==========
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- "Offset" is the time in Minutes:Seconds:Blocks where to start on the
- CD. There are 75 blocks in one second.
- "Length" is the time to be sampled, beginning at "Offset".
- Use cursor keys to move cursor (white coloured) and +/- to change values.
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- Following keys are triggering actions:
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- SPACE - sample and play your selection. If you haven't changed
- anything since last sampling, sample data is played again.
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- P - save preferences. By default, saves to "S:scsi-gui.prefs".
- You may deliver another name on startup.
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- B - toggle sampling resolution (8bit <-> 16bit)
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- D - Destination file selection. A filerequester will pop up to
- let you choose a path and a file to save sample to.
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- TAB - toggle between left/right/stereo channels. When in
- 8bit-mode, only left or right channels are supported.
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- 0 - (on mainpad or keypad) prompts user for a tracknumber which will
- (zero) be calculated to the corresponding time-offset. For example,
- if you want to sample the first 10 secs at the beginning of the
- 5th track on your CD, type in a "5" (and set Length to 10 secs).
- This action is on the "0"-key to simplify data entry. Just
- type "0" on keypad, then type your track number into the
- requesterwindow! ;-)
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- HELP - re-read CD information. Necessary when changing CD.
- On startup, SCSI-GUI does not automatically detect whether a
- cd is in your drive, to prevent error messages to come from
- SCSIUtil if your drive is empty.
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- Why is there no intuition window?
- =================================
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- Because I don't have any suitable intuition environment to use with
- ARexx. (rx_intui.lib is not Kick2.0 look, rexxarp.lib cannot handle
- proportional Gadgets).
- So I decided to create "pseudo"-gadgets with ANSI-Codes in a RAW-
- Console window. Anyway, this seems to be a fast solution for ARexx.
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- Legal text
- ==========
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- SCSI-GUI is copyrighted by me (Sven Thoennissen) and is to be FreeWare.
- I will cut your head off if you try to gain any profit with it,
- as I don't make any money with it!
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- History
- =======
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- V1.0 - First release. Size is 17415 Bytes.
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- Tests
- =====
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- SCSI-GUI has been successfully tested under following conditions:
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- - A4000/EC030, Toshiba XM-4101, Golem-SCSI-II, OS3.0
- - A2000/GFORCE040, Toshiba XM-3501, GVP-Controller, OS3.1
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- You are free to tell me your well-tested equipment so I can add
- it to this list.
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- Thanks and hellos
- =================
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- To the authors of SCSIUtil and Play16 who gave their permission
- for using it. Thanks to the author of rexxreqtools.library for
- making reqtools available to ARexx!
- Big handshake to Mathias Frankenbach for betatesting and improvements!
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- Contact the author of SCSI-GUI
- ==============================
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- For improvements or suggestions email me at sa80@tomate.oche.de or at
- svent@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de .
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- Please tell me if there are any bugs in it, and tell me your
- equipment, too.
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