Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.iastate.edu!cs352a41 From: cs352a41@cs.iastate.edu (Adam Goldberg) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Good MS-DOS/PC-DOS BIOS Cookbook wanted Keywords: book assembly msdos Message-ID: Date: 21 Apr 91 15:26:14 GMT References: Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA Lines: 29 mike@x.co.uk (Mike Moore) writes: > I'm looking for good manuals describing PC-DOS BIOS, >general cookbooks for DOS systems, how to use graphics cards direct from >assembly (i.e. how to do my own things without using BIOS calls) disk >interface stuff is also useful, as wells as serial and parallel interface. >Tactics for using extended memory and any other kind of memory are especially >of interest to me. I use (and enjoy): o The New Peter Norton Programmer's Guide to The IBM PC & PS/2 by Peter Norton and Richard Wilton ISBN 1-55615-131-4 o IBM Microcomputers, a Programmer's Handbook by Julia Sanchez and Maria Canton ISBN 0-07-054594-4 Norton's book describes DOS & BIOS calls, and Sanchez's book describes things from a more hardware level. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ! Adam Goldberg ! * ! "It's simple! Even a PASCAL ! ! cs352a41@cs.iastate.edu ! * ! programmer could do it!" ! +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+