YABB - Yet Another Blue Box Version 0.93 Jan, 08 1992 All code and ideas by: fst, gofty, panda, friedo, nevs and to-pse Sine-Code written by fst, gofty & to-pse Macro-Parser written by fst and additions by to-pse Sound-blaster & Ad-Lib support by friedo & to-pse Testing & suggestions by panda & nevs YABB is a blue-box program for the PC-compatibles. It was written to support the circuitry of the Chaos Computer Club Hamburg, FRG. In addition there will be support for Adlib-compatible Sound-Cards and the Soundblaster and an much improved version of the original d/a-circuitry. Currently the program has been tested on the following systems: AT486 33Mhz AT386 33Mhz AT386 ~8Mhz (slow mode) AT286 12Mhz The program requires at least a 286 processor. As the calculations involved require some performance, there is the slight (?) possibility that the program won't run correctly on slower systems. Especially the Sound-blaster support needs a certain amount of speed for timing reasons. YABB is supposed to be a replacement for the pcm.c program supplied for the d/a-converter-card by the CCC. The handling of pcm was pretty crude. Com- pared to this, YABB is a v e r y big improvement. YABB is fully macro-oriented. First of all there are no definitions for things like 'Clear Forward', 'Start', 'Seize' etc. Almost everything is defineable. This makes YABB v e r y flexible. If you find YABB to be a useful piece of software, please be so kind to send us the amount of $20, DM40,- or equivalent. If you have any suggestions, questions or other things concerning YABB, please contact us via email: uucp: yabb@xfswob.han.de yabb@xfswob.wob.sub.org fido: yabb@(2:240/13) DOCUMENTATION ------------- After starting YABB, it tries to locate a precalculated sinus-table on your disk, pointed to by the environment-variable YABB. You can set this variable like this (for example): set yabb=c:\yabb If the variable is not set, YABB tries to load the table from the directory it has been loaded from. If neither of those files can be found, a new sinetable is being computed. This will take a while (depending on the speed of your sys- tem). Afterwards the file will be written either to the path pointed to by the environment-variable or into the directory from which YABB was loaded as a file named sinus.dat. Next YABB looks for a default-symbol-tabel called symbols.sym in the directory pointed to by the environment-varible or in the directory YABB was loaded from. If found it is loaded into YABB. Afterwards YABB enters the command-mode. Here you have the possibilty to enter new macros (here called symbols), execute macros, change the current mode of operation or execute built-in procedures. BUILT-IN COMMANDS ----------------- .Info information about the authors and program .List [symbol] list [symbol] or if missing all symbols .Mode list the current state of the mode-stack .Read [filename] reads [filename] and interprets it as commands .Write [filename] stores current symbol-definitions as [filename] .Hotkey enters hotkey-mode for instantaneaous access to macros .Clear clears all symbol-definitions and the mode-stack .Device [device] selects appropriate output-device (LPTx,AL,SB,DA) .Quit quits YABB .HElp displays all currently supported builtin command .Fullscreen enters full-screen command mode with mouse-support (currently not supported - wait for Release 1.00) All commands can be abbreviated by the first or first two letters. MODE-CHANGING ------------- /xxx pushes xxx on the mode-stack, making it the current Mode \ pops the last element off the mode-stack SYMBOL-DEFINITION ----------------- = Defines as being a sequenz of , where Commands can be symbols itself, Mode-Changes, OutPut of Sound etc. = Deletes SYMBOL-EXECUTION ---------------- Expands and executes HOTKEY-DEFINITIONS ------------------ Key Normal Val Shifted Val Alted Val Ctrl-Val ------------------------------------------------------------------------- F1 315 340 360 350 F2 316 341 361 351 F3 317 342 362 352 F4 318 343 363 353 F5 319 344 364 354 F6 320 345 365 355 F7 321 346 366 356 F8 322 347 367 357 F9 323 348 368 358 F10 324 349 369 359 F11 -- -- -- -- F12 -- -- -- -- PRT -- -- -- -- ROLL -- -- -- -- PAUSE -- -- -- -- L_ARR 331 331 -- 371 R_ARR 333 333 -- 372 U_ARR 328 328 -- -- D_ARR 336 336 -- -- INS 338 338 -- -- DEL 339 339 -- -- POS1 327 327 -- 375 END 335 327 -- 373 PGUP 329 329 -- 388 PGDN 337 337 -- 374 TAB 9 271 -- -- BS 8 8 -- 127 CR 13 13 -- 10 ESC ************* should not be used ************** The other keys, like 0..9, A..Z, a..z and the special symbols (!,",$..) are mapped to their ascii-values... STILL MISSING ------------- whitespaces should be handled much smoother clear should clear mode-stack program should run on any 286 fast than 12 Mhz (in SB-Mode, too) read should not try to interpret .commands as filename readkey should be able to get ALL extended keys (F11, F12 for example) ad-lib support is still missing keys should first not be mapped to upcase for definitions of hotkeys... pulse-dialing support for (auto-recognition of) D/A-card! fullscreen-mode with mouse-support syntax-check when defining macros