This software is released into the public domain as freeware

Copy it as you will

I accept no responsibility for any occurrance good or bad as a result of
its use.

I wrote Semaphore Edit some time ago when I was busy playing around in video
and had 2 Sanyo GVR-S950 edit decks.
The software controlled the decks through the RS-232 ports and it also
controlled a trigger to control a video mixer. It likes to live on a
floppy (at the time it was convenient and kept my EDL's from different
projects separated and easier to track, as they take up very little
space.)
   The software will perform:
   1 - Checkerboard edits between 2 decks and a mixer
      this requires making a master 1 tape then making a master 2 tape
      each of the necessary interleaved edits.
      it the runs the two tapes with a mixer and creates an A/B roll
      out to a third uncontrolled tapedeck.
   2 - Linears Edits
   3 - control a gp-trigger through a third serial port (RS-232)
   4 - capable of using drop and non-drop time-code
   5 - it's been a while but frame accuracy seemed to be attained
       as this was the gist of writing the editor.

Semaphore Edit was written in AMOS for ease and it controlled the phenominal
amount of strings necessary to carry out the tasks.

AMOS don't LIKE ANIMATED POINTERS!

Semaphore Edit may control other decks, OR, it may not! use caution
as the controllers for the SANYO decks were actually BCD controllers
and operate on fairly simple commands. BCD did show some interest in
the software at the time it was being written but, alas Commodore was
not showing any interest in continuing as a business and prospects
did not seem to be 'rosey'. As a result it was shelved and just recently
I stumbled onto the internet and am able to offer up.

   If I can be of assistance ....
   Feel free to contact me at danpenny@sk.sympatico.ca

Luck  Dan Penny     March 9 1998