Hi Jim,
Well, you can tell a CD drive to play track X using my
minimalist cdrom2ui, but I think that would be sort of
an INdecent open source alternative because it is too
minimal :-D On the other hand, a QuickBasic solution
sounds like something needing FreeBASIC in QB mode, or
something
On Sun, 19 Feb 2023, Jim Hall wrote:
On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 4:30 PM Steve Nickolas wrote:
Would it be something not too hard to bang out with a decent C compiler?
I've never written a CD player interface per se, but if all the
information can be retrieved, and all the commands can be
> On Wed, 15 Feb 2023, E. Auer wrote:
>
> > Well, you can tell a CD drive to play track X using my
> > minimalist cdrom2ui, but I think that would be sort of
> > an INdecent open source alternative because it is too
> > minimal :-D On the other hand, a QuickBasic solution
> > sounds like something
Jerome wrote:
> > 4) CDP, This is not open source software. It is Freeware without
> > sources. Should this be removed. Is there an decent open source
> > alternative?
Robert wrote:
> Maybe someone wants to ask Steve J. Gray
> to release source code (QuickBASIC 4.5) for his SJGPlay TUI player:
>
On Wed, 15 Feb 2023, E. Auer wrote:
Well, you can tell a CD drive to play track X using my
minimalist cdrom2ui, but I think that would be sort of
an INdecent open source alternative because it is too
minimal :-D On the other hand, a QuickBasic solution
sounds like something needing FreeBASIC in
On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 4:10 PM E. Auer wrote:
> >> What does CDP do? Can you mention some features of that?
Jim wrote:
> > As Robert already mentioned in this thread:
> > "CDP is a non-TSR CD player."
On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 4:18 PM E. Auer wrote:
> Well, you can tell a CD drive to play track
Hi Jim,
Jerome Shidel wrote:
> 4) CDP, This is not open source software. It is Freeware without
> sources. Should this be removed. Is there an decent open source
> alternative?
On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 4:10 PM E. Auer wrote:
What does CDP do? Can you mention some features of that?
As
Hi Eric,
> On Feb 15, 2023, at 5:09 PM, E. Auer wrote:
>
>
> Hi Jerome,
>
>> 1) CPIDOS, this is basically just a package of codepage font files.
>> Those files have been assembled in some fashion into the CPX files and
>> distributed as such. However, there is no utility or information
>>
Jerome Shidel wrote:
> > 4) CDP, This is not open source software. It is Freeware without
> > sources. Should this be removed. Is there an decent open source
> > alternative?
On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 4:10 PM E. Auer wrote:
> What does CDP do? Can you mention some features of that?
>
As Robert
Hi Jerome,
1) CPIDOS, this is basically just a package of codepage font files.
Those files have been assembled in some fashion into the CPX files and
distributed as such. However, there is no utility or information
present in the package to create such CPX files. We should probably do
On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 10:28 AM wrote:
[..]
> However, there are 4 other packages remaining with issues. All of
> which are included somewhere on at least of one of the release media.
>
> 1) CPIDOS, this is basically just a package of codepage font
> files. Those files have been assembled in
On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 1:31 PM Robert Riebisch wrote:
[..]
> Maybe someone wants to ask Steve J. Gray
> to release source code (QuickBASIC 4.5) for his SJGPlay TUI player:
> http://www.6502.org/users/sjgray/software/sjgplay/sjgplay_dos.html
>
Good suggestion, didn't know about that one. I'll
> 4) CDP, This is* not open source software*. It is Freeware without
> sources. Should this be removed. Is there an decent open source alternative?
CDP is a non-TSR CD player.
Jim once used CDP to demonstrate FreeDOS package management at
_opensource_ dot com:
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