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From: ron@vicorp.com (Ron Peterson)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: IR universal for amiga
Message-ID: <1991Jan9.235622.28346@vicorp.com>
Date: 9 Jan 91 23:56:22 GMT
References: <10045@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: ron@vicorp.com (Ron Peterson)
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In article <10045@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> atn@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Alan Nishioka) writes:
>A while back there was a file (zapper.txt) going around about using
>a computer as a universal Infrared remote which learns and repeats
>back IR remote commands.
>Has anyone written a program for use with the amiga?
>I was trying this past weekend, but I couldn't get the joystick port
>or parallel port to go fast enough. (400ms pulses)
>How can you speed up port access?  I was using Write() to par: and
>WritePotgo() for the joyport.
I wrote a program for the Amiga to do something related to this (which
I am currently looking for a publisher for---anyone out there interested
in a general purpose multimedia program?)  I used assembly language
routines to toggle bits in the CIA's directly and interrupts for timing
and timely aquisition.  The interrupt code in particular was a bit tricky
to write.
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