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- This file was my list of "things to find out." I figured if I threw it in
- maybe some of you would know some answers. Any new information is always
- greatly appreciated, and I'll mention you in my CREDITS file too, eh?
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- sound cards (I have some stuff on the Sound Blaster, info on
- any others would be greatly appreciated)
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- FAX boards (I have the Calculus API. Others welcome)
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- the new proposed FAX API standard(s) I keep reading about
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- IBM 2.88mb floppy format (ID byte, sectors, tracks, etc)
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- IBM 128mb floppy format (ditto)
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- proprietary EGA/VGA video modes (everyone seems to have some oddball modes
- in their video boards. More of a curiosity
- than anything else, but beats collecting
- matchbook covers)
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- more network stuff - particularly OEM extensions to NETBIOS
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- IBM Double Byte Character Set stuff (this stuff is REAL NEAT. There's maybe
- two lines in the MSDOS Encyclopedia, a
- word or two in Advanced MSDOS, nothing
- in Undocumented DOS. Microsoft won't
- say anything, and IBM refers me to
- Microsoft. This is the way Oriental
- versions of DOS handle a squidzillion
- Korean, Japanese, and Chinese characters
- by extending the ASCII code to two
- bytes, giving lots more room. But how?)
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- Desqview/Topview/Omniview programming info (I have a TopView SDK now, but
- I'd welcome any DV/OV stuff)
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- udoc'd MS Mouse calls (I keep hearing reports of undocumented int 33h
- and int 16h calls in later versions of MS
- MOUSE.COM, but I can't track down anything in
- the versions I have)
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- low-level tape drive stuff (how can progs like PC Tools and Norton Backup
- talk to different tape drives? I can't get
- anything at all from Archive, Colorado, or
- Wangtek)
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- talker board APIs (these are special boards for the blind. Some
- have fancy programming APIs)
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- DOS redirector interface (I've heard various stories on this, but the only
- people I've talked to who've seen it are under
- nondisclosure. No help from MS yet. Evidently
- I just don't know who to talk to)
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- MS CD-ROM interface (Microsoft wrote back and told me there isn't one,
- MSCDEX I have framed the letter as a monument to incometency)
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- a copy of the High Sierra CDROM standard
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- Multi-DOS Plus, int 15h API
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- Concurrent DOS (various versions), DR-DOS 3.31 and 5.0, DOSMerge/386
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- disk formats for DEC Rainbow, Victor 9000
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- Windows supposedly makes use of "undocumented" function calls and is an ill-
- behaved application (this in on a par for Microsoft's "do as I say, not as I
- do" policy). Curiosity as to which.
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- need partition table bytes for:
- UCSD p-System
- Digital Research Concurrent CP/M
- Digital Research CP/M-86
- Digital Research Concurrent DOS 386
- Minix
- AT&T UNIX
- all Speedstor types
- all vFeature types
- all PC-MOS/386 types
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- Western Digital - int 13h/fn 20h SuperBIOS call
- - general programming information
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- IBM ESDI Technical Reference - int 13h/1Ah, 1Bh, 1Ch calls
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- GEM - int EFh API
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- Btrieve int 7Bh API
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- IBM 8514/A 7Fh API
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- IBM XGA specification
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- Hercules mode detection standard - there was one once, but Hercules doesn't
- seem to answer letters
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- Intel Image Processing Specification 1.0
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- SEAware FAKEY, etc, etc
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- DISPLAY.SYS calls
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- KEYB.COM calls
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- 8514/A API, PGA API (these are discontinued, but the information would be
- really nice)
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- AST Research Generic Accelerator Card Driver (GACD) Specification
- (also obsolete, but I'd like to have it for
- completeness)
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