beyond

Driver for the multimedia installation for Prof. Jill Scott's "Beyond Hierarchy" (Dortmund, Zeche Zollern, Summer 2000).

• Project Description (external link, german)

DOWNLOAD

[ beyond-1.3.tar.gz (52k) ]

README

Author: A. Schiffler, aschiffler [at] ferzkopp.net  to contact the author.
Licenced under the GPL; see the file COPYING for details.

"beyond"
========

(C) under the GPL, A. Schiffler
Please see the file LICENSE for GPL info.

Custom program for Jill Scott's "Beyond Hierarchy".
Shown in Vision.Ruhr, Dortmund, 05/2000-11/2000.


Documentation
-------------

For a description of the installation (in German) seen the /Doc directory.


Requirements
------------

"beyond" requires the following hardware:

- Standard PC, 3rd Gen. (K6-3, Pentium III, Athlon) CPU >450MHz
- Cyclades 16Ye-PCI/DB25 multiport serial cards
- Happ Control I/O Card with custom touch-interface hardware
- 2x Bockstaller Electronics 8port ADIO serial A/D converter
- Conrad Electronics 8port serial relais board
- Happ Control 5KOhm Joysticks with custom interface circuit


"beyond" requires the following software and setup:

- Mandrake Linux 7.00 installed (probably works with RedHat 6.2) or better
- XWindows running at 16 bpp color depth
- Cyclades drivers loaded


Compilation and Installation
----------------------------

- Edit beyond.c to toggle the right ports for the devices. 
These variables have to be changed:

static char *adcdevice[NUMADC] 
static char *dvddevice[NUMDVD] 
static char touchdevice[] 
static char lightdevice[]

The device definitions can be found in the .h files.

- Type "make clean; make" to remake complete binary.

- Start "beyond" while running Xwindows.

- If the program gets started from KDE, use (and modify) start.sh script
to reflect the proper path.


Configuration
-------------

To edit the playback setup, modify the following files:

 chapter_mapping.txt
 conversation_mapping.txt
 joystick_calibrations.txt

Follow the instructions at the top of each file. Comment lines are preceeded
by a "#" character.

The joystick calibration will be changed by the online calibration mode when
the values get saved.

The configuration that the program actually uses, gets logged in the files:
 chapter_mapping.log
 conversation_mapping.log