RISC OS  OPEN

Contents

• About the Programmer’s Reference Manuals
• Part 1 – Introduction
  • An introduction to RISC OS
  • ARM Hardware
  • An introduction to SWIs
  • *Commands and the CLI
  • Generating and handling errors
  • OS_Byte
  • OS_Word
  • Software vectors
  • Hardware vectors
  • Interrupts and handling them
  • Events
  • Buffers
  • Communications within RISC OS

• Part 2 – The Kernel
  • Modules
  • Program Environment
  • Memory Management
  • Time and Date
  • Conversions
  • Extension ROMs

• Part 3 – Kernel Input/Output
  • Character Output
  • VDU Drivers
  • Sprites
  • Character Input
  • The CLI
  • The rest of the kernel

• Part 4 – Using Filing Systems
  • Introduction to filing systems
  • FileSwitch
  • FileCore
  • ADFS
  • RamFS
  • DOSFS
  • NetFS
  • NetPrint
  • PipeFS
  • ResourceFS
  • DeskFS
  • DeviceFS
  • Serial Device
  • Parallel Device
  • System Devices
  • The Filer
  • Filer_Action and FilerSWIs
  • Free

• Part 5 – Writing Filing Systems
  • Writing a Filing System
  • Writing a FileCore Module
  • Writing a Device Driver

• Part 6 – Networking
  • Econet
  • File Server Protocol Interface
  • The Broadcast Loader
  • BBC Econet
  • Hourglass
  • NetStatus

• Part 7 – The Desktop
  • The Window Manager
  • Pinboard
  • The Filter Manager
  • The TaskManager Module
  • TaskWindow
  • ShellCLI

• Part 8 – Non-kernel input/output
  • ColourTrans
  • The Font Manager
  • SuperSample Module
  • Draw Module

• Part 9 – Printing
  • Printer Drivers
  • Printer Dumpers
  • PDumperSupport
  • Printer Definition Files
  • MakePSFont

• Part 10 – Internationalisation
  • MessageTrans
  • International Module
  • The Territory Manager

• Part 11 – Sound
  • The Sound System
  • WaveSynth

• Part 12 – The Buffer Manager
  • Squash
  • ScreenBlank

• Part 13 – Hardware support
  • Expansion Cards and Extension ROMs
  • Floating Point Emulator
  • ARM3 Support
  • The Portable Module
  • Joystick Module
  • PCI Manager

• Part 14 – Programmer’s Support
  • Debugger
  • The shared C library
  • BASIC and BASICTrans
  • Command Scripts

• Appendix
  • Appendix A: ARM Assembler
  • Appendix B: Warnings on the use of ARM Assembler
  • Appendix C: ARM Procedure Call Standard
  • Appendix D: Code File Formats
  • Appendix E: File Formats
  • Appendix F: System Variables
  • Appendix G: The Acorn Terminal Interface Protocol
  • Appendix H: Registering Names

• Tables
  • Table A: VDU Codes Codes
  • Table B: Modes
  • Table C: File Types
  • Table D: Character Sets