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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)
FAX boards (I have the Calculus API. Others welcome)
the new proposed FAX API standard(s) I keep reading about
IBM 2.88mb floppy format (ID byte, sectors, tracks, etc)
IBM 128mb floppy format (ditto)
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)
more network stuff - particularly OEM extensions to NETBIOS
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?)
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)
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)
talker board APIs (these are special boards for the blind. Some
have fancy programming APIs)
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)
MS CD-ROM interface (Microsoft wrote back and told me there isn't one,
MSCDEX I have framed the letter as a monument to incompetency)
a copy of the High Sierra CDROM standard
Concurrent DOS (various versions), DR-DOS 3.31 thru 6.0, DOSMerge/386
disk formats for DEC Rainbow, Victor 9000
IBM ESDI Technical Reference - int 13h/1Ah, 1Bh, 1Ch calls
GEM - int EFh API
Btrieve int 7Bh API
IBM XGA specification
Hercules mode detection standard - there was one once, but Hercules doesn't
seem to answer letters
Intel Image Processing Specification 1.0
SEAware FAKEY, etc, etc
DISPLAY.SYS calls
KEYB.COM calls
8514/A API, PGA API (these are discontinued, but the information would be
really nice)
AST Research Generic Accelerator Card Driver (GACD) Specification
(also obsolete, but I'd like to have it for
completeness - AST doesn't distribute it any more)