Writing Video Card Drivers In BeOS
Appendix C - References
- BeOS API documentation: The Be Book, outlined in the BeOS R5 Pro Developer tools in HTML format.
- Programmer's Guide to the EGA and VGA Cards, Richard F. Ferraro (Addison-Wesley),
ISBN 0-201-12692-3.
- The indispensable PC Hardware book, Hans-Peter Messmer (Addison-Wesley), 4th edition, ISBN
0-201-59616-4.
- Be Incorporated: http://www.beincorporated.com.
- Haiku (formerly known as OpenBeOS): http://www.haiku-os.org.
- YellowTab: http://www.yellowtab.com.
- BeOS R4 Graphics Driver Kit, alpha release 2, 1999-03-30, most likely written by Trey Boudreau.
- Industry standard .four character code. colorspaces:
http://www.fourcc.org.
- Haiku (OpenBeOS) Matrox driver, Rudolf Cornelissen: http://web.inter.nl.net/users/be-hold/BeOS/MGAdriver/index.html.
- Matrox Developer Relations: register specs for diverse MGA cards:
http://developer.matrox.com.
- Haiku (OpenBeOS) Neomagic driver, Rudolf Cornelissen: http://web.inter.nl.net/users/be-hold/BeOS/NMdriver/index.html.
- Asiliant Technologies: register specs for Chips and Technologies chipsets for laptops:
http://www.asiliant.com/products.htm.
- Mediaplayer and streaming video solutions. VideoLan:
http://www.videolan.org.
- VESA organisation's VBE3 open standard: VESA Bios Extensions version 3:
http://www.vesa.org/vbe3.pdf
- BeOS R5 Personal Edition, updates, and developer tools, free for non-commercial use:
http://www.bebits.com/app/2680.
- The most important BeOS software site: http://www.bebits.com.
- BeTVOut: TVout for nVidia cards under BeOS., Rudolf Cornelissen: http://betvout.sourceforge.net.
- FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org.
- Linux Xfree86 project sources: http://www.xfree.org.
- Linux X.Org foundation sources: http://x.org.
- Linux kernel sources: http://www.kernel.org.
- United States Code from the U.S. house of Representatives: http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/1201.html.