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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.
> 

Yes. I did this a couple of years ago on my ami, just for the heck of it. Speed
isn't really a problem. However, the various system interrupts (and task
switching) totally destroy the content of the signals. You need to disable
interrupts and task switching when you do your actual recieving/sending. This
of course means you can't use a lot of the system calls. I just wrote/read
directly from the joystick port. (btw - you CAN use low level graphics calls I
believe) Anyway, once I did that, everything worked fine.

Steve Ludtke					
Ludtke@physics.rice.edu
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