From owner-freebsd-emulation Thu Feb 27 17:05:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA28933 for emulation-outgoing; Thu, 27 Feb 1997 17:05:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA28920 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 1997 17:05:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id LAA08057; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 11:34:37 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199702280104.LAA08057@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Status report of vm86/dos emulation (DOS info) In-Reply-To: from "pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co" at "Feb 27, 97 03:47:20 pm" To: pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 11:34:32 +1030 (CST) Cc: jlemon@americantv.com, emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-emulation@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co stands accused of saying: > > * Ralph Brown's Page: > "A comprehensive listing of interrupt calls, I/O ports, memory locations, > and far-call interfaces for IBM PCs and compatible machines, both > documented and undocumented. More than six megabytes of information in > ASCII text files! " > ftp://ftp.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/ralf/pub/WWW/files.html Got it; invaluable. And I usually have one of the bundled viewers running under doscmd while I'm hacking it 8) > *Partial source code of a msdos clone. > The source code looks like it could save a lot of experimentation as to > how dos works in bizarre situations. Note that the source code is > copyrighted. Do not copy code from there -- use it only for determining > how dos is supposed to work and recall that the author might have gotten > it wrong occasionally. > ftp://ftp.std.com/pub/rxdos/ Mike P's code. Last I knew he wasn't giving out the code - you had to buy the book to get that. I couldn't get it here; I was seriously considering it for a while. > *DOS extenders in the x2ftp archive (some interesting docs around, too) > ftp://x2ftp.oulu.fi/pub/msdos/programming/pmode > ftp://ftp.ibp.fr/pub/pc/x2ftp Haven't seen these. Interesting. > And finally, interesting, but not useful, there is the page for a 32 bit > DOS from Russia (commercial product): http://www.pts.mipt.ru/ Heh. I spend a lot of time (slow link) trying to find _any_ useful information on their site last time I looked. Not worth it unless you're bored. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[