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Third
Party LCD Driver Programs
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| LCDproc
is a small piece of software that displays real-time system
information from your Linux box on a Crystalfontz 634 20x4 LCD. |
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LCDproc
linux LCD display driver |
| LCD4Linux
allows displaying information to your LCD from your Linux PC. |
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LCD4Linux
linux LCD display driver
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| This
is Todd Porter's excellent port of LCDproc to Windows NT, Windows
95 and Windows 98. |
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NT/95/98
LCDproc Windows LCD display driver |
| LCDHype |
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LCDHype
LCD display driver |
| LCD Smartie - A free open-source LCD program! |
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Win95/Win98/WinME/WinNT/Win2k/WinXP
LCD display driver |
| LCDStudio |
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Win95/Win98/WinME/WinNT/Win2k/WinXP
LCD display driver |
| Girder
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Girder is "the most powerful and feature rich Windows automation
tool available" |
| B2-4AC Java LCD Library
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www.b2-4ac.com
has made available a Java LCD library that supports the Crystalfontz
CFA-634 Serial and CFA-631 USB displays. |
| FreeMeter
is a utility that monitors system performance and will show
the information on a Crystalfontz LCD Module. |
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FreeMeter
by Tiler.com |
| Markus
Zehnder has a great "WinAmp LCD Plugin". |
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Winamp
LCD Plugin |
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Motherboard
Monitor |
| Remote
Selector is software that allows you to control your DVD player
with an Irman and a Crystalfontz LCD. |
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Visual
Domain, home of Remote Selector. |
| AKWeb's ActiveX DLLs make programming the
CFA-631, CFA-632, CFA-633 and CFA-634 easier: "ActiveX DLLs will take the grunt work out of learning
how to program some of the most popular displays." |
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ActiveX DLLs
LCD Weather Program |
| MP3Car's
links page. Has a link to the Cobra software which has support
for the Crystalfontz displays in a MP3 player intended for cars. |
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MP3Car
Software page |
| MPy3!
started as a Python port of the Cajun project. It has support
for Crystalfontz serial displays. Source code can be downloaded
under GPL. |
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MPy3! |
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CAJUN
Car Audio Jukebox |
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Web
Links
|
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Bill Bradford of
SunHelp.org reviews
the Crystalfontz 634 display. |
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GNUPC
makes great computers
with Linux pre-installed. |
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EIO
(Electronics Information Online), home of the LCD
Forum. |
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Utility
Programs
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| Adobe's
Acrobat Reader, for viewing and printing PDF (Portable Document
Format) files. |
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Acrobat
PDF Reader |
| Nico
Mak's WinZip, for creating and extracting files from zip compressed
archives. |
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Winzip
Archive Utility |
| Hyper
Terminal Private Edition. Some versions of Hyper Terminal that
shipped with some versions of Windows have some bugs. This is
a free Hyper Terminal replacement from the same company. |
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Hyper
Terminal Private Edition Communications software |
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PC
Communications References
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| The
Serial Port A great tutorial and reference about serial
communications. |
| Interfacing
the PC Has references on serial, parallel, USB and more
available as web pages or as PDF. |
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LCD
References
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| LCD
Frequently Asked Questions A nice tutorial on LCD fundamentals
by Bruck Scott of Matsushita |
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A good, not-too-technical
article on LCDs
from How Stuff Works. |
| Introduction
to Liquid Crystal Displays Another nice tutorial on LCDs
by Case Western Reserve University |
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A nice technical
tutorial on LC material. Has virtual Shockwave "experiments". |
