When the program is launched, it will attempt to configure itself. This involves figuring out which device driver and which device unit to use for audio playback. This information is usually stored in the program's icon, but it can also provided on the command line. The names of the command line options and the tool types are the same. The following options are supported:
PlayCD CD0:
PlayCD dosdev CD2:
That this type of configuration may not work with all CD-ROM filing systems. |
Use this option to provide the name of the device driver the CD-ROM drive to use for playback responds to. |
Default for this option is "scsi.device" .
This option works in conjunction with the "DEVICE" parameter. Both the device name and the unit number specified define the interface the PlayCD program should use to address the CD-ROM drive. |
Default for this option is "2".
Default for this option is 1", i.e. clicking on the buttons will skip one second each.
Default for this option is 200000", i.e. one fifth of a second.
PlayCD pubscreen=my.public.screen
There is no default for this option. Default behaviour for PlayCD is to open its display on the default public screen which in most cases will be the Workbench screen.
PlayCD bufmemtype=2
PlayCD bufmemtype=512
Default for this option is 0", which specifies no particular type of memory to use for interacting with the controller hardware.
If properly configured, PlayCD will open a window which contains the following controls (left to right):