Category : Pascal Source Code
Archive   : INFOS155.ZIP
Filename : PAGE_21.INF

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 : [email protected]
Unix : uunet!infopls!andyross
CompuServe : >INTERNET:[email protected]

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.

RCS Defender : (708)390-6603 (2400/1200, 2 lines)
: (708)390-9662 (14400/9600/2400/1200 v32bis/v42bis/MNP)
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
ATI VGA Wonder XL w/ 1M RAM
Soundblaster (older version with CMS chips)

Software:
MS-DOS 5.00
QEMM 6.00
4DOS 4.0
HyperDisk 4.31
Turbo Pascal 6.0
Turbo Assembler 2.0
Turbo Debugger 2.0
KEDIT 4.00D2
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
([email protected])

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 ([email protected])

How to detect the Tandy 1000, and some models digital sound, came from
Frank Durda IV ([email protected])

Information about a bug in the LONGCALL routine came from Michael Holin
(HIMH%[email protected]).

Information about problems with Trident VGA chipsets came from MANY
people.