TerminalServer.exe - 44k, self-installing Winamp PIMP program

Config window - 4k, PNG image

Winamp Terminal Server command list

Terminal Server Plugin Source - 56k, zip file

A plugin for winamp so you can control it from a terminal attached to a serial port of your computer. While terminals are not the most common of household computing items, I've got one, and I find it useful, even if no-one else does! 

It used to be on the Winamp site, but as this version is more up to date and my link no longer works anyway it is just here now.

All my projects so far seem to have been done on a one-per-holiday basis, when I'm a bit bored and playing around with programming stuff. This project was one of these - after coming home from university  I was determined to make use of the terminal we had scrounged from campus; it makes the place looks geeky, but didn't actually do anything. So I decided that irrelevant of how hard it would be I would write a winamp plugin to interface with the terminal. I had no idea how to do either, but here it is, somehow. I consider it a "learning experience"... I'm now writing C++ to earn my daily bread...

It hasn't been much for a while - it was pretty much finished early in the summer of 2001, and there's really not much more I want to do with it. And you can't really polish it much more than it is now... unless I make use of funky ascii-art...

It's main uses as far as I'm concerned... (1) choosing a track when the monitor's off and I don't want to wake it up, and (2) changing tracks when I'm playing half-life...

Update - 16th February 2004

Cor, the page that time forgot...

After being prodded into doing something with it the plugin now has a option for 1200bps. A perfect time to give the page a lick of paint, too...

Update - 10th January 2002

It's back up on the winamp site; the page shows the right name, but the downloaded file is still Phil_Himsworth.exe... aaargh!!!

Update - 27th December 2001

I removed it from the Winamp site; I could live with the title of the page being 'Phil Himsworth' but I didn't realise the filename after downloading it would be that too. In the meantime, it's still on my site...

Update - 12 September 2001

For some reason I've started not bothering to select what music I'm after, going for the 'bung it all on' option, which made finding one particular track really rather tricky, because there's only one use of the 'list' function. Not any more... you can now type 'list <substring> and hey presto, a nice case-insensitive list of tracks with that substring pops up. Handy. Well, I think so anyway.