Qial(1/12/2001) I've begun working on Qial again! I've brought it up to date with Qt 2.2 and KDE2-ified it. It uses the aRts daemon, and has useful configuration saving. Once its a little bit cleaner, and I make a few changes, I'll release 0.20. There is however, a screen shot of the latest code available. The biggest feature is the ability to switch your set of tones. The only example set I could think of which is even remotely useful is a "red box" set. Normally a red box only generates one tone. However one of the common ways to make a red box is to modify a Radio Shack tone dialer. I went and calculated what all the other frequencies would be on the dialer once you replaced the crystal with a 6.5536MHz one and then I called those a "red box". (If you adjust the timing to 33ms on, 33ms off and speed dial "*****" you get a quarter sound. :) I've finally made Qial 0.19 available! (PGP signed checksum) It looks about identical to 0.17, which is featured in the screen shot. The configuration stuff is pretty worthless, but you can dial your phone with it, and have fun. Honestly, thats not very useful for most people, since most people happen to have tone-based phones. However, when I first started to work on the program, I was living somewhere that didn't have a touch tone phone, and I needed to register for classes. Necessity being the mother of invention, and no other available program filling my needs, I started working on this. Its also useful if you want to study the effects of making lots of weird noises on the people you live with. Or, if you happen to have something rigged so that your soundcard's output is fed into your phone line. (I'll probably put some schematics for such a thing on here. Warning: Its not an FCC approved device.) |
