nhj@cs.bham.ac.uk (Nick Jurascheck <JurascheckNH>) (06/22/88)
I am involved in research in the construction of software tools for authors of Computer Based Learning materials, and am having a problem with receiving data from a videodisc player, driven from the serial port of an IBM clone (Apricot Xen-i). I can initialise the port and send commands to the player (using BIOS int 14h) but incoming data is not buffered so I can't recieve frame numbers etc back from the player. Does anyone have any knowledge of this problem, or know how I can write a serial input buffer to store incoming data? I usually program in C, and have only limited experience of assembler. Another, unrelated problem which I am trying to solve is the use of graphical/text images from MicroSoft Paint/Write. I would like to be able to display these from within an authoring language by calling a C routine to display the image. At the moment I can only view such images from within MS Paint/Write , or print them out. Is this possible - presumably I would need details of the encoding algorithm?? Thanks for any help !