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== Introduction ==
 
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Devices are software interfaces for controlling physical computer hardware, such as keyboards, printers, soundcards, and disk drives, or they can be used for controlling the software entities created by the operating system, for instance a console or a clipboard. They provide a uniform and standardized command set for communicating with hardware and software entities.
[[Introduction to Amiga System Devices]]
 
   
 
== Devices ==
 
== Devices ==
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[[ AHI Device ]]
   
 
[[Audio Device]]
 
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[[Trackdisk Device]]
 
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[[USBSys Device]]
== Resources ==
 
 
[[Resources]]
 
 
== IFF: Interchange File Format ==
 
 
[[A Quick Introduction to IFF]]
 
 
[[EA IFF 85 Standard for Interchange Format Files]]
 
 
[[ILBM IFF Interleaved Bitmap]]
 
 
[[FTXT IFF Formatted Text]]
 
 
[[SMUS IFF Simple Musical Score]]
 
 
[[8SVX IFF 8-Bit Sampled Voice]]
 
 
[[IFF FORM and Chunk Registry]]
 
 
[[IFF Source Code]]
 
   
 
== Example Device ==
 
== Example Device ==

Latest revision as of 00:03, 21 September 2018

Introduction

Devices are software interfaces for controlling physical computer hardware, such as keyboards, printers, soundcards, and disk drives, or they can be used for controlling the software entities created by the operating system, for instance a console or a clipboard. They provide a uniform and standardized command set for communicating with hardware and software entities.

Devices

AHI Device

Audio Device

Clipboard Device

Console Device

Gameport Device

Input Device

Keyboard Device

Narrator Device

Parallel Device

Printer Device

SCSI Device

Serial Device

Timer Device

Trackdisk Device

Supporting Disk Change Events

USBSys Device

Example Device

Example Device

Miscellaneous

Amiga Floppy Boot Process and Physical Layout