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From: LAAAA43@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be (Peter Arien)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Video Laser Disc Driver
Message-ID: <91028.164153LAAAA43@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>
Date: 28 Jan 91 16:40:53 GMT
Organization: K.U.Leuven - Academic Computing Center
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Ho there,

This is the next step in my quest for video-interaction.

In order to experiment with the setup, I have a Philips
VP 410 Laservision Disc Drive connected to my PC (386SX)
over the RS232. I found a very neat Pascal communication program
in wuarchive.wustl.edu, that makes it possible to send
ASCII commands over the Com1 (RS232) to the video-player.
And it works fine.  (The program is called Comm-TP4 and is
written by Kevin R. Bulgrien.)

Alas, the program is much too big, since I have to call it
from within an other (presentation) program that already
swallows most of my PC's memory.

The question : where do I find a program that does the same
thing and is much (!) smaller. This means : it doesn't have to
have any user-interaction facilities, it just must be able
to send the ascii commands to the laser disc drive over Com1.

Commands like : ,1 (stand by)
                F00001N (goto picture number 1 and start playing)
                ,0 (stop).

I did find a few hints in the Pascal manual, but it refers
to the IBM technical manual, and from there on it gets much to
complicated for me, a Pascal- and PC-beginner.


Any help would very much appreciated.


Peter.
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