YACDP ( Yet Another CD Player )

Information in this page updated: 29 Sep 95


Author:
Frank Würkner wuerkner@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Version:
1.2
Software type:
Shareware
Purpose:
CD player interface for SCSI-2 CDROM's
Drives know to work with it:
Look below
Other software required:
OS2.0 (OS2.1 for using localization) or higher, reqtools.library
Other hardware required:
SCSI bus adapter capable of sending SCSI direct commands; a CD-ROM which can read CD-DA ("Red Book") encoded discs (i.e. you should see a headphone jack on the front panel); optionally your CD-ROM should be capable of sending the audio as 16-bit digital data over the SCSI bus
Sources included:
No
File in ftp.luth.se:
YACDP1.2.lha

Comment from the author

It was designed to work with all SCSI-2 CD-ROMs, but due to divergences
from the norm most CD-ROMs need special handling of several commands.

Following drives have been tested and work. Audio via SCSI and setting
the volume work as shown in the table. NEC drives can't position within
the a track (fast forward/backward) but this will be fixed in the next
release of YACDP.

                             `via SCSI' |  set
                                works   | volume
                             -----------+--------
  Apple CD300                    yes    |  yes
  Apple CD300e plus              yes    |  no
  Apple PowerCD                  no     |  yes
  Hitachi CDR3750                no     |  no
  Nec CD-ROM's                   no     |  no
  Philips CM215                  no     |  yes
  Pioneer DRM-604x               no     |  yes
  Sanyo CRD-400I                 no     |  no
  Texel DM-XX24                  no     |  yes
  Toshiba XM-3301BME             yes    |  yes
  Toshiba XM-3401TA              yes    |  yes
  Toshiba XM-4101TA              yes    |  yes

.readme file from aminet/disk/cdrom

Short:    CD player interface for SCSI-2 CD-ROM's
Author:   wuerkner@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Uploader: wuerkner@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Type:     disk/cdrom

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                             Yet Another CD Player

                            © 1994 by Frank Würkner
                              All Rights Reserved


SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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o OS2.0 (OS2.1 for using localization) or higher
o reqtools.library © 1991-1994 by Nico François (thanks Nico!)
o a SCSI bus adapter capable of sending SCSI direct commands
o a SCSI-2 CD-ROM which can read CD-DA ("Red Book") encoded discs
  (i.e. you should see a headphone jack on the front panel)
o optionally your CD-ROM should be capable of sending the audio as
  16-bit digital data over the SCSI bus


FEATURES
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o GUI that let's you access all functions of a normal CD-Player
o is a Commodity
o powerfull AREXX port
o localized for 2.1 and up (currently German)
o can display songnames and CD title, of course you once have to
  enter the names (about 150 CD texts are already included)
o doesn't wastes memory
o SCSI errors are displayed as text (95 known)
o realtime stereo playback of audio on your Amiga, even on 68000       (*)
  machines (achieved by highly optimised assembler routines)
o ability to save (parts of) songs as stereo IFF (8SVX) or RAW (CDR)   (*)

(*) CD-ROM must be able to send audio over SCSI bus (see SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS)


HISTORY
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  1.2
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        o YACDP is now (uncrippled!) Shareware
        o `via SCSI' playback is now stereo
        o saveing stereo IFF's is now also possible
        o added AREXX-port and menu for AREXX macros
        o added some things well known from CD players (shuffle/program
          mode, repeat track, repeat all)
        o added balance slider
        o volume slider now has his maximum at top
        o localized for 2.1 and up (currently German)
        o new look menus and standard wait pointer for 3.0 and up
        o beautified buttons
        o documentation now in AmigaGuide®
        o better support for NEC CD-ROM's
        o when using `via SCSI' the scsi_Length was set too large fixed
          (memory was trashed with some scsi devices)
        o fixed problem with some older versions of gvpscsi.device that
          returned IOERR_BADLENGTH when using odd buffer length
        o didn't support multi-menu-select fixed
        o the AUTOSTART feature didn't work in conjunction with
          CX_POPUP=NO
        o window looked ugly for titlefonts with a height greater 8
        o songnaming has changed (old still accepted) and the songfiles
          moved into one big hashfile
        o changes in the songfile are now displayed immediate (file
          notification)
        o the programm TestCDROM is now integrated into YACDP (tooltype
          TESTCDROM)
        o the tooltype NOVIASCSI has vanished, use VIASCSIMODE=0 instead
        o some new tooltypes and new keyboard shortcuts (check them!)


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