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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:	AMIGA NOTES
Notice:	Join us in the NEW conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:	HYDRA::MOORE

Created:	Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:	Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5378
Total number of notes:	38326

2787.0. "writing device driver help pls" by GIDDAY::HAMILTON () Tue Aug 01 1989 03:04

    Hi there, (or gidday, as us aussies are supposed to say, but it is only
               tourist who say it, really!!!)
    
         Can anyone out there in the land beyond, help me, I'm wanting to
    	write a device driver, to take over the parallel port and
        associated 8520 (I think) chip and Interrupt server slot, etc, but
    	however I'm not really too sure of how to write one, is there any
    	``nice'' documentation, like for example the VMS guide to writing
        a device driver for the Amiga 1000, I want to do special things 
        with for communication specific processing, I have programmed the 
        6520, which looks almost exactly the same, on the old 
        (now very very old) Commodore 64, in 6502, however, I've not 
        learnt 68000 assembly yet, being too busy, learning VAX macro, 
        VMS internals, and other such pleasantrys, so anything that resembles 
        VMS type stuff, would help, I'm also at looking for a way, probably 
        using once again device drivers to implement virtual disks, 
        IE: disks that are on another Amiga, connect by what ever means 
        possible...
    
    
        Thanx,
    
           Scott, Esq.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
2787.1		POBOX::ANDREWS	I'm the NRA	`Tue Aug 01 1989 18:11`	7
	Well, if you want to write something that will allow you to run virtual disks on another amiga, it's pretty much been done. Using Matt Dillions DNET and the NET: device from the Software Distillery, the software allows you to connect the two together and transfers the files using DNET.
2787.2	I want more!!!	GIDDAY::HAMILTON		`Wed Aug 02 1989 21:57`	14
	I don't actually wanted it for a practical purpose, but to learn how to write one, and it sounded like a nice thing to write... I assume that source is available for DNET, is there any available around here, on easynet, because I'm going around in circles trying to work out, about the insides of exec and AmigaDOS. Know what I mean.. Yeah, it's mainly a "educational" type of thing, learn how to really program the Amiga, not just use it, any source would be appreciated... Thanx, Scott, Esq.
2787.3	Here there and everywhere!	WJG::GUINEAU	Only obvious to the casual observer	`Wed Aug 02 1989 22:56`	17
	Do you have the ROM KERNEL manuals? At least EXEC and LIBRARIES AND DEVICES? There is an example device driver in there. Other good books listed in here somewhere (try NOTES> DIR/TITLE=BOOK or /TITLE=PROGRAMMING etc.). WJG::AMIGA:DNET_V2_0_BETA.ZOO is DNET the kit and WJG::SYS2:[AMIGA.DNET...] is that kit unpacked into AMIGA and UNIX directories. WJG::AMIGA:DOSDEV.ZOO and SAMPLEDEVICE.ZOO may be interesting... John