 | | (Slightly Offtopic:) WinAmp remote control via IR Tower
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Okay. No rotten tomatoes, but this post is slightly outside the scope of this newsgroup. However, I really think that the interest in a question like this is going to be high, so here goes. Browsing WinAmp's plugin page, I found a snazzy little (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: (Slightly Offtopic:) WinAmp remote control via IR Tower
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Well! A kind soul pointed me to: (URL) has a neat Winamp plugin that allows the program to be controlled by the serial port. Now I just need to convince the IR tower to play nice with others. The plugin tries to open Com 2 (where my tower's plugged (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: (Slightly Offtopic:) WinAmp remote control via IR Tower
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(...) Mindstorms uses an ActiveX control called SPIRIT.OCX to communicate with the IR tower. As far as I know, it only opens the COM port when some application is actually using the .OCX, so the port should be available for use if you're not running (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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