IMPORTANT:
----------

  1. If you're using a SED1520 based LCD that requires an external line
     clock, you MUST add the following lines to your autoexec.bat.
     These commands will enable the display controller's power-save mode,
     and prevent damage of the display.

     ALE 1
     PCS 5
     PCS 6
     OB 500 A5
     OB 500 AE
     OB 600 A5
     OB 600 AE
  
  2. Because the player makes use of the AMD186 DMA-Channels, you
     have to insert the following settings into your chip.ini file

     [SERIAL]
     COM_DMA=DISABLE
     EXT_DMA=DISABLE

  3. If you don't have any hardware connected to the serial ports,
     you should disable them. (otherwise, you might get trash at
     the commandline!)

     [STDIO]
     STDIN=TELNET
     STDOUT=TELNET
     FOCUS=USER SHELL

  4. See the "chip" directory for a sample chip.ini and autoexec!

  5. Don't forget to read the GNU Public License! It's in the
     COPYING.TXT file!


ADDITIONAL STUFF:
-----------------

  If you want to connect a harddrive to your player, you should
  format it using a normal PC first. At the time, the BIOS handles
  all Disk I/O, and so it has to be smaller than 2 GB per partition,
  FAT16 only!

  You'll find the sourcecode for a harddisk-driver in the
  tools/extdisk directory. It's quite messy, but works just
  fine..

  If someone takes the time to cleanup the code, implement
  a caching scheme, i'll be more than happy to hear of it!


CREDITS
--------
  Many thanks to all people writing me E-Mails, and supporting this
  project. I certainly wouldn't have continued, if there wasn't great
  support from all of you. Thanks!

  Special thanks go to:
   
    Ulrich Lechleuter, ulrich@lechleuter.de
      for soldering the very first version of the external IDE-
      Interface (using a 8255 on the PC Parrallel port).

    Thorsten Godau, thorsten.godau@gmx.de
      for the first implementation of the command line parameters
      in ExtIDE, and debugging my ExtIDE interface. (See his great 
      WeBox project at webox.tz-mikroelektronik.de)

    Robert Dubber, r.dubber@chello.nl
      for sending me his old harddisks, finding some bugs in the
      program, and writing the great Font Creator utility!

    Detlef Gerhardt @ BeckIPC
      for buying some of my players, and just great support. I'll
      thank the whole Beck team anyways, these guys just rock!

    Robert Rottmerhusen, info@rottmerhusen.com
      for allowing me to distribute his schematics for a much simpler
      Lattice ispLSI cable. Check it out in the docs directory, only 
      a male DSUB connector, a cable, and a resistor needed!

    Marcus Kraemer, marcus-kraemer@web.de
      for organizing a small production series for the B2 layout of
      the player. Without him, there would be 35 people without a
      PCB.

    All the folks at de.sci.electronics
      I simply don't know, if i could have built this player,
      without the invaluable support of this newsgroup..

    
Have fun!