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- This page lets you know how you can contact me.
-
- If you have any questions, bug reports, or suggestions, I can be
- reached at the following places:
-
- Internet : andyross@infopls.chi.il.us
- Unix : uunet!infopls!andyross
- CompuServe : >INTERNET:andyross@infopls.chi.il.us
-
- Infoplus BBS : (708)537-0247 (14400/9600/2400/1200 v32bis/v42bis/MNP)
- This is my own BBS. You can always get the latest version here. Just log
- in as INFOPLUS, and follow the instructions on screen.
-
- Beacon : (708)615-0845 (2400/1200)
-
- This version of INFOPLUS was compiled using the following equipment:
-
- Hardware:
- Gateway 2000 386/25 (Micronics ASIC motherboard w/ 64K cache)
- 4 Meg RAM
- Microscience 110M ESDI, 3.5" HH
- Ultrastor 12F ESDI controller w/ 32K cache
- Seagate ST251 40M MFM
- Seagate ST21R controller
- ATI Graphics Ultra Pro ISA w/ 2M RAM
- ProAudio Spectrum 16
-
- Software:
- MS-DOS 6.00
- QEMM 6.00
- 4DOS 4.02 Rev B
- Hyperdisk 4.60
- Turbo Pascal 6.0
- Turbo Assembler 2.0
- Turbo Debugger 2.0
- KEDIT 5.00D1
- Windows 3.10
- Desqview 2.40
-
- My primary sources of ideas in INFOPLUS were Ray Duncans "Advanced MS-DOS"
- and Terry Dettman's "DOS Programmer's Reference." The ideas of Prakash
- Chandra,Terje Mathisen,Bob Smith, and others appear in various places. Also
- James Howard, John Levine, Mark Aitchison, Jay Caplan, David Tay, Heribert
- Eisele, Matthias Heidbrink.
-
- Some of the techniques INFOPLUS uses are not documented or officially
- supported by either IBM or Microsoft. Where possible I have followed the
- undocumented routine with a comment describing my source for the technique.
-
- Much of the additional info came from Ray Duncan's "Advanced MSDOS
- Programming" second edition (a must get book for anyone interested in
- low-level stuff.) Also, additional information on the DOS 4 boot sector
- format came from "The Norton Troubleshooter." A book that comes with The
- Norton Utilities 4.5.
-
- Even more information comes from Ralf Brown's interrupt list, which lists
- hundreds of goodies. It's available via BBS's, and resides on SIMTEL20 and
- many other public access UNIX sites. It's also available on the Infoplus
- BBS. The name is INTERxxy.ZIP, where xx is the version, and y is the part
- letter. (This version of Infoplus used INTER28.)
-
- Additional information on XMS and DPMI came from the book 'Extending DOS'
- by Ray Duncan (and others.)
-
- Information on additional partition values came from numerous people of
- which I never wrote down their names!!
-
- Information on detecting VGA chipsets came from "Advanced Programmer's
- Guide to Super VGAs" by George Sutty and Steve Blair. Published by Brady.
- (NOTE! Beware of bugs in the detection routines in the above book!!)
-
- Some extra VGA chipset detection help came for the source code for
- Fractint 16.11.
-
- Information on reading the CMOS came from a program posted by Mark
- Aitchison on USENET.
-
- Information on detecting UART types came from David Tay and David Nugent
- (david@csource.oz.au)
-
- More information on VGA chipsets came from "Programmer's Guide to the EGA
- and VGA Cards, Second Edition" by Richard F. Ferraro. Published by
- Addison-Wesley.
-
- Information about how dangerous it is to pass too many flags, and info
- about OS/2 came from Heribert Eisele (heribert@caen.engin.umich.edu)
-
- How to detect the Tandy 1000, and some models digital sound, came from
- Frank Durda IV (uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org)
-
- Information about a bug in the LONGCALL routine came from Michael Holin
- (HIMH%DCZTU1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu).
-
- Information about problems with Trident VGA chipsets came from MANY
- people.
-
- Information on the UltraSound came from Tran of Renaissance and Josua
- Jensen.
-
-