CompuServe Messages

The Interim toolkit can be ordered for $10.00 from Right Answers regardless of whether or not you have previously purchased the original Toolkit. However, the interim toolkit will not be accepted towards upgrading to Toolkit II (which may now end up Toolkit III), only the original Toolkit will. As far as configuring for other LaserDisc players, the Laser Video module utilizes a text config file which specifies the commands to be sent to the player when the module commands are used. Each command is associated with a string: playr="60spmr\r" gotoframe="fr%dse\r" qtime="?t\r" and the like. In the above examples, (for the 4200) the PLAYR (play reverse) command issues a 60sp (set multi speed to 60 fr/sec) and then does a "mr" (multi-speed reverse). Gotoframe uses "fr" to select frame mode, and %d to insert the numeric parameter provided the command by the Director script (a frame number) and then "se" does a search." The commands are returned a result code which is interpreted from the players response and encoded into a numeric return parameter by the module. For text based protocols like the above example, it's relatively easy to configure, but for binary based protocols (like the Pioneer 6000 and Sony) its somewhat more complex. Strings can specify holding registers, do binary arithmetic, and pretty much whatever is needed to massage the data in and out so that the commands can be produced and the results interpreted. However, we don't guarantee that the current version has all the faculties necessary to do the job, or that they are fully debugged in some of the areas where specific binary protocols have not been tried. That is why we refer to the current Toolkit as the Interim toolkit, it is really betaware, we are making it available because 1) people need it, and 2) it needs testing. Right Answers can be contacted for ordering: Right Answers Inc. Box 3699 Torrance, CA 90510 (818)-840-8021