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Re: Media Control device drivers?

From	Charlie <charlieDOTd@verEYEzon.net>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.apple2.programmer
Subject	Re: Media Control device drivers?
Date	2011-07-29 14:37 -0500
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On 7/29/2011 10:15 AM, Peter Neubauer wrote:
> On Jul 28, 7:10 pm, Polymorph<mike.a.steph...@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Peter,
>>
>> The Media Control Set is documented in the "Programmer's Reference For
>> System 6.0" by Mike Westerfield.
>>
>> There is also a 2 paragraph clarification for some of the finer details
>> found in the "Programmer's Reference for System 6.0.1" (also by Mike
>> Westerfield).
>>
>> I got both of these included in the documentation that came with "Opus
>> ][ - The Software" (download edition) which I bought a few years ago
>> from Syndicomm.
>>
>> I personally haven't tried to write one from scratch, however I did play
>> around with some media control drivers source code that was supposed to
>> allow the Apple High Speed SCSI card to control SCSI-2 cdroms a while
>> back. I could never get it to work though - I think there was another
>> driver required that I don't have :-( .
>>
>> Anyway, I hope this helps.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mike
>
> Thanks, Mike.  I have the "Programmer's Reference" for System 6.0 and
> 6.0.1 from Opus ][, and they document how to use the tool set but not
> how to write new drivers (found in :System:Drivers:Media.Control).
> You mention "media control drivers source code" ... where did you find
> this?
>
> -Peter

Peter,

Have you looked at the Apple IIGS GS/OS Device Driver Reference? It has 
a section on writing a driver.  Or is something more needed for 
Media.Control drivers?

Charlie

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Media Control device drivers? Peter Neubauer <peter.j.neubauer@gmail.com> - 2011-07-28 09:18 -0700
  Re: Media Control device drivers? Polymorph <mike.a.stephens@gmail.com> - 2011-07-29 10:10 +1000
    Re: Media Control device drivers? Peter Neubauer <peter.j.neubauer@gmail.com> - 2011-07-29 08:15 -0700
      Re: Media Control device drivers? Charlie <charlieDOTd@verEYEzon.net> - 2011-07-29 14:37 -0500
        Re: Media Control device drivers? Peter Neubauer <peter.j.neubauer@gmail.com> - 2011-08-02 10:00 -0700
      Re: Media Control device drivers? Polymorph <mike.a.stephens@gmail.com> - 2011-07-31 19:46 +1000

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