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Still actively being worked on, massive number of functions, ram buffered play, zero screen output if you want to, easy keyboard interface, other interfaces, LCD output, playback from FTP (nas) server, native soundcard support,..., ...
Make a USB stick booting DOS in RAMDISK, running this, and you have the most minimalistic possible PC source.
Still actively being worked on, massive number of functions, ram buffered play, zero screen output if you want to, easy keyboard interface, other interfaces, LCD output, playback from FTP (nas) server, native soundcard support,..., ...
Make a USB stick booting DOS in RAMDISK, running this, and you have the most minimalistic possible PC source.
Thank you for this information Yves - I visited their web site (and others) to check this program out and found a lot (to much?) information. Looks as if sorting through all of this info will take a good bit of time. Now where did I stash that old computer that I was saving for a project?
You're welcome.
It can be hugely tweaked - Actually this project is running since '99, I was doing a test build with it for car audio back then, booting DOS of a CD changer at that time (multi gigabit storage was a no-no back then 🙂
I even was able to put together a 4x20 character LCD screen on the parallel port. Everything was running on a downclocked Pentium 100 and running perfectly (MP3's VBR back then)
It's a daunting task but I think it can be very rewarding with a minimal of hardware involved. I especially like the speed it operated at.
Using a numeric keypad only, I could change directories with / and *, and you can enter a track number immediately. This is very fast access to files.
Haven't worked with it in the last years, but looking at how purists here want to minimize background processes & such, and control playing from RAM and such, it's best to go back to a non-multitasking OS, using a program just to do the task at hand.
For testing purposes there is a win32 version to run under windows.
If you need DOS info, I'm an old skool IT consultant, I'd be happy to help.
It can be hugely tweaked - Actually this project is running since '99, I was doing a test build with it for car audio back then, booting DOS of a CD changer at that time (multi gigabit storage was a no-no back then 🙂
I even was able to put together a 4x20 character LCD screen on the parallel port. Everything was running on a downclocked Pentium 100 and running perfectly (MP3's VBR back then)
It's a daunting task but I think it can be very rewarding with a minimal of hardware involved. I especially like the speed it operated at.
Using a numeric keypad only, I could change directories with / and *, and you can enter a track number immediately. This is very fast access to files.
Haven't worked with it in the last years, but looking at how purists here want to minimize background processes & such, and control playing from RAM and such, it's best to go back to a non-multitasking OS, using a program just to do the task at hand.
For testing purposes there is a win32 version to run under windows.
If you need DOS info, I'm an old skool IT consultant, I'd be happy to help.
Heh-heh - DOS might be to new for me😉 I worked for Digital Equipment Corp. back in the early 70's and we would load bootstrap onto PDP-8's via punched tape!!
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