I saw that one with Hyperterminal on the mars.org site, it gave me a start, but for some reason the player would _not_ drop to the shell after pressing Q.

I wasn't referring to the mars.org site. I was talking about this entry in the FAQ forum here on this BBS. In the FAQ it gives two possible reasons this might happen:

1) You haven't installed the developer software onto the empeg.
2) You haven't cycled the power on the empeg.

Also make sure the software is set to the correct terminal settings as illustrated in the screen shot in the FAQ.

However, this "tie it all together"-point is missing, even though smu seems to start working on that right now with his new page.

The mars.org site was supposed to be this "tie it all together" site. I would still like to see it become that. Unfortunately, it's way behind on updates. I have forgotten who runs it. Is that PaulH's site, too?

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Tony Fabris