User:Creature/Template:Main2/Hardware Experiment

CPU

• AMD K6 writeback optimisations
• How can I detect the CPU's speed?
• Model-specific registers
• Inline Assembly
• Information regarding the X86 64-bits CPU
• Processors of the IA32 architecture family
• What is v8086 mode?
• CPU Bugs

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Memory

• How do I determine the amount of RAM?
• Why can't I access all my memory?

IRQ's & Exceptions

• Interrupts for dummies
• What is the PIC and how do I remap it?
• Tell me about the APIC
• What is the NMI?
• Interrupt Service Routines
• I can't get interrupts working!
• Getting Keyboard Input

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Video

Text

• How do I move the cursor when I print?
• How do I output text to the screen (Protected Mode)?

Graphics

• Accelerated Graphic Cards
• How do I detect if I have a colour or monochrome monitor?
• How do I draw things in protected mode?
• VGA Resources and VGA Documentation
• Video Signals And Timing
• Bochs and QEMU's graphics device

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Audio

• Sound
• PC Speaker
• Sound Blaster 16

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Storage Devices

• DMA
• ATAPI (CD-Rom)
• ATA (General)
• Floppy driver

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Plug & Play

• Where can I find programming information?
• Can you do PNP calls with the BIOS in Protected Mode?

PCI & USB

• PCI
• AGP
• USB

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Network Cards & Communication

• 3c90x
• Ne2000
• RTL8139
• RTL8169
• Serial ports

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Non-x86 Development

• MIPS
• Sparc
• PowerPC

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