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Linux-Announce Digest #850
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Tue Sep 12 00:13:14 2000
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Linux-Announce Digest #850, Volume #3 Tue, 12 Sep 00 00:13:04 EDT
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Games for the Linux console (Brian Raiter)
lirc-0.6.2 Linux Infrared Remote Control (Christoph Bartelmus)
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From: Brian Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>
Subject: Games for the Linux console
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 04:08:09 GMT
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Download: ftp://ftp.muppetlabs.com/pub/software/cgames-2.0.tar.gz
Homepage: http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/cgames.html
The programs in cgames-2.0 are implemntations of computer games for
the Linux console:
* cmines (minesweeper)
* csokoban (sokoban)
* cblocks (sliding-block puzzles)
The program take advantage of the mouse and the console font to
improve the user interface.
All three games are configurable. csokoban and cblocks use standard
file formats that permit easy addition of new levels/puzzles (of which
many are freely available on the net).
The software is licensed under the GNU GPL.
Brian Raiter
breadbox@muppetlabs.com
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From: columbus@hit.handshake.de (Christoph Bartelmus)
Subject: lirc-0.6.2 Linux Infrared Remote Control
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 04:09:45 GMT
Reply-To: lirc@bartelmus.de
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LIRC - Linux Infrared Remote Control, Version: 0.6.2
Copyright (C) 1996 Ralph Metzler <rjkm@thp.uni-koeln.de>
Copyright (C) 1998-2000 Christoph Bartelmus <lirc@bartelmus.de>
(according to GNU General Public Licence 2.0 or later)
LIRC is a package that allows you to decode and send infra-red signals
of many (but not all) commonly used remote controls.
Pre-release versions are currently available at the LIRC homepage:
http://fsinfo.cs.uni-sb.de/~columbus/lirc/
Former versions focussed on home-brew hardware connected to the serial
or parallel port. Descriptions how to build this hardware can be found
on the LIRC homepage. Current versions of LIRC also support a variety
of other hardware. An up-to-date list of all supported devices and the
status of the according drivers is available on the LIRC homepage.
The most important part of LIRC is the lircd daemon that will decode
IR signals received by the device drivers and provide the information
on a socket. It will also accept commands for IR signals to be sent if
the hardware supports this. The second daemon program called lircmd
will connect to lircd and translate the decoded IR signals to mouse
movements. You can e.g. configure X to use your remote control as an
input device.
The user space application will allow you to control your computer
with your remote control. You can send X events to applications, start
programs and much more on just one button press. The possible
applications are obvious: Infra-red mouse, remote control for your TV
tuner card or CD-ROM, shutdown by remote, program your VCR and/or
satellite tuner with your computer, etc. I've heard that MP3 players
are also quite popular these days.
Adding new remotes is still problematic but since version 0.5.2 there
comes the first program that will try to add new remote controls
automatically.
Don't expect much documentation. This is only a pre-release version
and there is still much to be done before LIRC becomes easily
configurable and usable.
For people with a little C/C++ knowledge this should already be possible
with this pre-release. Otherwise, wait for version 1.0.
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