Amiga Hardware Manufacturer ID Registry

How to Obtain a Manufacturer Number

Manufacturer's numbers are assigned by the AmigaOS development team. To obtain your unique manufacturer number use the AmigaOS web site contact form.

Be sure and include your name, email and the type of expansion product you are developing.

Your Manufacturer Number

Attention hardware manufacturers. If you are developing a hardware expansion product for the Classic Amiga (e.g. 500, 2000, 3000) then you will need to obtain a special manufacturer ID number from the AmigaOS development team to identify your product. This manufacturer number is used by the Amiga to link your hardware with its driver software at boot time.

Your manufacturer number is part of the special protocol that the Amiga uses to automatically configure all expansion devices on the bus without the user having to cut jumpers or adjust dip switches. This is called auto-config.

At start-up time, the system first polls each board in the system and assigns the board its own address space. If it is a memory board, its RAM is linked into the memory free pool. Later in the boot sequence, after DOS is initialized, the binddrivers program is run. Binddrivers will search the directory SYS:Expansion for the drivers that go with the boards.

To do this binddrivers looks in the Tool Type field of all icon files in SYS:Expansion. If the first seven bytes of the Tool Type field are "PRODUCT", then this is an icon file for a driver.

Binddrivers will then attempt to match the drivers it has found with the boards that were found earlier. This is where your manufacturer number comes in.

Your manufacturer number goes in two places. First, it is burned in hex form into the PAL which is part of ALL auto-config expansion products. Second, it appears in ASCII in the Tool Type field of the icon file for your product's driver. By matching these two numbers, the Amiga can automatically configure your board and bind it's software driver into the system as well.

The manufacturer's number is a 16-bit ID which appears in PAL offsets $10-$17. There is also an 8-bit product number which you assign. The product number is for uniquely identifying different products from the same vendor. The product number will appear in PAL offsets $04-$07. This gives you a total of 24 bits to identify each of your products.

These 24 bits of information in the PAL which identify your product are matched against the information in the Tool Type field of all icon files in the SYS:Expansion drawer. For example, suppose you are manufacturer #1019. You have two products, #1 and #2 which both use the same driver. The icon for your driver for these two products would have a Tool Type set to "PRODUCT=1019/1|1019/2". This means: I am an icon for a driver that works with product number 1 or 2 from manufacturer 1019, now bind me. Spaces are not legal. Here are two other examples:

PRODUCT=1208/11

is the Tool Type for a driver for product 11 from manufacturer number 1208.

PRODUCT=1017

is the Tool Type for a driver for any product from manufacturer number 1017.

For an informal explanation of the auto-configuration process, see the chapter on Software Expansion Architecture from the 2nd Annual Amiga Developer's Conference Notes (available on ADCD 2.1). For the details of timing, power, the PAL equations and PAL address specifications and the expansion library documentation, see sections 3.1 to 3.3 of the A500/A2000 Technical Reference Manual. The original auto-config spec appears in the A1000 Schematics and Expansion Specification.

The auto-config process makes the addition of expansion products to the system very easy. All the user has to do is put the board in any slot and copy the driver from the release disk to his own SYS:Expansion drawer. Everything else is automatic. There are no jumpers or dip switches to set. Best of all, you will get a lot less support calls asking how to make your product work with the XYZ-Corp-battery-backed-clock.

Notes

Some notes on hardware manufacturer ID assignment.

• Manufacturer ID numbers are assigned free of charge.
• Please provide the following information when requesting an ID:
  1. Name of the company or person
  2. Postal address/contact address
  3. Name of the contact person, with a corresponding e-mail address
  4. A brief description of the kind of products you want to produce
• All ID numbers smaller than 5000 must be considered unsafe because no information exists on which numbers exactly were taken during the time Commodore, Inc. disintegrated.
• ID numbers in the range 8192 to 18841 must be considered unsafe because some hardware developers mistook the numbers assigned to them to be given in hexadecimal format. Hence 0x2000 = 8192 and 0x4999 = 18841.

Example code

/*-----------------------------------------------*/
/* Here is a short program which will tell you   */
/* about the expansion boards configured in your */
/* system without you opening up the machine.    */
/* Code by Bill Koester of CATS                  */
/*-----------------------------------------------*/
#include <libraries/configvars.h>
#include <libraries/expansion.h>
 
struct ExpansionBase *ExpansionBase;
 
void cleanup();
void printdev();
 
int main()
{
   struct ConfigDev *MyConfigDev;
 
   /*----------------------------------*/
   /* Open the expansion library,      */
   /* if there is a problem then exit  */
   /*----------------------------------*/
 
   ExpansionBase =(struct ExpansionBase *) OpenLibrary(EXPANSIONNAME,0);
   if(ExpansionBase==NULL)
   {
      printf("Error opening expansion library!!\n");
      cleanup();
      exit(0);
   }
 
   /*--------------------------------------------*/
   /* Use FindConfigDev to get info on the first */
   /* expansion board on the list maintained by  */
   /* Exec.  If there are no expansion boards in */
   /* the system then exit.                      */
   /*--------------------------------------------*/
 
   MyConfigDev = NULL;
 
  /*--------------------------------------------------*/
  /* FindConfigDev(oldConfigDev,manufacturer,product) */
  /* oldConfigDev = NULL for the top of the list      */
  /* manufacturer = -1 for any manufacturer           */
  /* product      = -1 for any product                */
  /*--------------------------------------------------*/
 
   MyConfigDev = FindConfigDev(NULL,-1,-1);
 
   if(MyConfigDev==NULL)
   {
      printf("No Configured Devices found!!\n");
      cleanup();
      exit(0);
   }
 
   printdev(MyConfigDev);
 
   /*-----------------------------------*/
   /* OK, there is at least one board,  */
   /* so loop and get the entire list   */
   /* printing as we go with printdev() */
   /*-----------------------------------*/
 
   while(MyConfigDev = FindConfigDev(MyConfigDev,-1,-1))
   {
      printdev(MyConfigDev);
   }
   cleanup();
   return 0;
}
 
 
/*-------------------*/
/* Close up shop...  */
/*-------------------*/
void cleanup()
{
   if(ExpansionBase)
      CloseLibrary(ExpansionBase);
}
 
/*----------------------------------*/
/* Print out the contents of the    */
/* dev structure for this expansion */
/* product.                         */
/*----------------------------------*/
 
void printdev(dev)
struct ConfigDev *dev;
{
   char buff[200];
 
   printf("Flags          = ");
   if(dev->cd_Flags==NULL)
      printf("NULL  ");
   if(dev->cd_Flags&CDF_SHUTUP)
      printf("CDF_SHUTUP  ");
   if(dev->cd_Flags&CDF_CONFIGME)
      printf("CDF_CONFIGME  ");
   printf("\n");
   printf("Board Address  = %x\n",dev->cd_BoardAddr);
   printf("Board Size     = %d bytes\n",dev->cd_BoardSize);
   printf("Slot  Address  = %d\n",dev->cd_SlotAddr);
   printf("Slot  Size     = %d\n",dev->cd_SlotSize);
   printf("Driver code at   %x\n",dev->cd_Driver);
 
   printf("er_Type         = %x\n",dev->cd_Rom.er_Type);
   printf("er_Product      = %x\n",dev->cd_Rom.er_Product);
   printf("er_Flags        = %x\n",dev->cd_Rom.er_Flags);
   printf("er_Reserved03   = %x\n",dev->cd_Rom.er_Reserved03);
   printf("er_Manufacturer = %x\n",dev->cd_Rom.er_Manufacturer);
   printf("er_SerialNumber = %x\n",dev->cd_Rom.er_SerialNumber);
   printf("er_InitDiagVec  = %x\n",dev->cd_Rom.er_InitDiagVec);
   printf("er_Reserved0c   = %x\n",dev->cd_Rom.er_Reserved0c);
   printf("er_Reserved0d   = %x\n",dev->cd_Rom.er_Reserved0d);
   printf("er_Reserved0e   = %x\n",dev->cd_Rom.er_Reserved0e);
   printf("er_Reserved0f   = %x\n",dev->cd_Rom.er_Reserved0f);
 
   printf("Hit Return to continue:\n");
   gets(buff);
}

Registry

ID (decimal)	ID (hexadecimal)	Manufacturer	Notes
1	0001	Micronik
211	00D3	Pacific Peripherals/Profex
221	00DD	Kupke Computertechnik GmbH
256	0100	Memphis	Originally registered to MacroSystems US
512	0200	3-State Computertechnik
513	0201	Commodore (Braunschweig)
514	0202	Commodore (West Chester)
515	0203	Commodore (West Chester)	Originally registered to Combitech/Macrosystem
756	02F4	Progressive Peripherals & Software
767	02FF	Kolff Computer Supplies
1001	03E9	Tecmar
1002	03EA	Telesys
1003	03EB	The Micro-Forge
1004	03EC	Kronos/C Ltd.	Originally registered to Card Co. (Supra)
1005	03ED	A-Squared
1006	03EE	Comspec Communications
1007	03EF	HT Electronics
1008	03F0	RDS Software
1009	03F1	Anakin Research
1010	03F2	MicroBotics
1011	03F3	Bob Krauth
1012	03F4	Access Associates (Alegra)
1013	03F5	Mini Comp Systems Ltd.
1014	03F6	Cypress Technology
1015	03F7	Fuller Computers
1016	03F8	Galaxy Computers
1017	03F9	ADA Research
1018	03FA	Computer Service Italia
1019	03FB	Amigo
1020	03FC	Micro-Solutions Inc.
1021	03FD	Stacar International
1022	03FE	Video Precisions
1023	03FF	ASDG, Inc.
1025	0401	Ing. Buero Kalawsky
1026	0402	Computer Tuning
1027	0403	Interplan Unternehmensberatung
1028	0404	Imtronics/Memphis	Originally registered to Peter Ohlich
1030	0406	Commodore (Lowell University)	Originally registered to Productivity Center
1041	0411	Design Labs
1042	0412	MCS
1043	0413	B. J. Freeman
1044	0414	Side Effects Inc.
1045	0415	Oklahoma Personal Comp.
1046	0416	Advanced Micro Innovations
1047	0417	Industrial Support Services
1048	0418	Technisoft
1049	0419	Prolific, Inc.
1050	041A	Softeam, Inc.
1051	041B	GRC Electronics
1052	041C	David Lai
1053	041D	Ameristar Technologies
1054	041E	Cline Refrigeration
1055	041F	Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.
1056	0420	Supra Corp. (Creative Microsystems)
1057	0421	Wayne Diener
1058	0422	Computer Systems Associates (CSA)
1059	0423	Trionix, Inc.
1060	0424	David Lucas
1061	0425	Analog Precision	Also assigned to D & L Distributing
1267	04F3	RBM Digitaltechnik
1282	0502	M-TEC Hardware Design
1337	0539	Thomas Stenzel (DaFR34K)
1576	0628	Boris Križma
1761	06E1	Great Valley Products
1803	070B	UAE Amiga Emulator
2002	07D2	Mimetics Corp.
2003	07D3	ACDA
2004	07D4	Finn R. Jacobsen
2005	07D5	Elthen Electronics
2006	07D6	Nine Tiles Computer Systems Ltd.
2007	07D7	Analog Electronics
2008	07D8	Bell & Howell
2009	07D9	Roland Kochler
2010	07DA	Byte Corp.
2011	07DB	Reserved
2012	07DC	DKB, Inc.	Previously named Michigan Software
2013	07DD	Pacific Peripherals
2014	07DE	Sysaphus Software
2015	07DF	Digitronics
2016	07E0	Akron Systems
2017	07E1	Great Valley Products
2018	07E2	Calmos
2019	07E3	Dover Research
2020	07E4	David Krehbiel
2021	07E5	Synergy Peripheral Systems	Also known as California Access
2022	07E6	Xetec
2023	07E7	Micron Technology
2024	07E8	CH Electronics
2025	07E9	American Liquid Light
2026	07EA	Progressive Peripherals & Software	Also used by Ateo
2027	07EB	Wicat Systems
2028	07EC	Applied Systems & Peripherals
2029	07ED	Delaware Valley Software
2030	07EE	Palomax
2031	07EF	Incognito Software
2032	07F0	Jadesign
2033	07F1	BVR
2034	07F2	Spirit Technology
2035	07F3	Spirit Technology
2036	07F4	Atronic
2037	07F5	Scott Karlin
2038	07F6	Howitch
2039	07F7	Sullivan Brothers Visual Engineers
2040	07F8	G I T
2041	07F9	Amigo Business Computers
2042	07FA	Micro E Ab
2043	07FB	Ralph Kruse
2044	07FC	Clearpoint Research
2045	07FD	Kodiak
2046	07FE	BSC	Originally registered to Phoenix Electronics
2047	07FF	No Name Shown
2048	0800	Commodore Braunschweig
2049	0801	BSC	Originally registered to Elaborate Bytes
2050	0802	Kronos/C Ltd.
2051	0803	Spartanics
2052	0804	Jochheim Computer Tuning
2053	0805	Trans Data Systems
2054	0806	Applied Systems & Peripherals Ltd.
2055	0807	Checkpoint Technologies	Originally registered to Amiga Solutions
2056	0808	Adept Development
2057	0809	Advanced Computer Design
2058	080A	Sir Netics
2059	080B	Expert Services
2060	080C	Digital Art Systems
2061	080D	Adept Development
2062	080E	Expansion Technologies (Expansion Systems)
2063	080F	Alphatech
2064	0810	Edotronik GmbH
2065	0811	California Access/Synergy	Originally registered to Logical Design Works
2066	0812	Bowden, Williams, Full & Assoc.
2067	0813	NES, Inc.
2068	0814	Amdev
2069	0815	Big Brother Security Systems
2070	0816	Active Circuits Inc.
2071	0817	ICD, Inc.
2072	0818	Multi-Meg Electronique
2073	0819	Kupke Computertechnik GmbH
2074	081A	The Checkered Ball
2075	081B	Hi Tension Computer Services Ltd. (UK)
2076	081C	Alfa Data	Originally assigned to Elmtech Research, Ltd. (UK)
2077	081D	Great Valley Products	Originally registered to Clartscreen, Ltd. (UK)
2078	081E	Interworks
2079	081F	Galysh Enterprises
2080	0820	Hardital Synthesis	Originally registered to Realtime Games Software Ltd.
2081	0821	GBS
2082	0822	Circum Design Inc.
2083	0823	Alberta Micro Electronic Center
2084	0824	Bestech
2085	0825	Lasar Fantasy
2086	0826	Pulsar
2087	0827	Ivis
2088	0828	Applied Engineering
2089	0829	Solid-State Design & Development
2090	082A	Vison Quest
2091	082B	Seaview Software
2092	082C	BSC	Mistakenly used by ADS (Advanced Development Software)
2093	082D	Bernd Culenfeld
2094	082E	American Liquid Light
2095	082F	CEGITES
2096	0830	Quadlite Computers Ltd.	Originally registered to EV Industries
2097	0831	Silicon Peace
2098	0832	Black Belt Systems
2099	0833	Village Tronic	Originally registerd to Steve Yaeger
2100	0834	ReadySoft
2101	0835	Phoenix Micro Technologies
2102	0836	Advanced Systems & Software	Orignally assigned to Preferred Technology
2103	0837	Rombo Productions
2104	0838	Impulse Inc.
2105	0839	Beta Unlimited
2106	083A	Memory Expansion System, Ltd.
2107	083B	Vortex Computer Systems GmbH
2108	083C	Platypus Systems
2109	083D	Gigatron OHG
2110	083E	PG Electronics
2111	083F	New Technologies Group
2112	0840	Interactive Video Systems (IVS)	Pacific Peripherals
2113	0841	Vector	Originally registered to H. K. Computer
2114	0842	Pacific Digital	Originally registered to C. H. Helfrich Elektronik
2115	0843	Xanadu
2116	0844	Pacific Digital	Originally registered to AMS
2117	0845	X-Pert
2118	0846	The Amiga Centre
2119	0847	Digital Pacific
2120	0848	Solid State Leisure
2121	0849	Hydra Systems	Originally registered to Analog Electronics
2122	084A	Cumana
2123	084B	KAPS 2C Conception
2124	084C	Mike Mason
2125	084D	For Your Eyes
2126	084E	Volkmar Breitfeld Computersysteme
2127	084F	Sunrize Industries
2128	0850	Scott Advanced Micro Designs
2129	0851	Digital Micronics
2130	0852	Alfa-Laval
2131	0853	Multigros A/S
2132	0854	Archos
2133	0855	Icom Simulations
2134	0856	Commodore Test Engineering Group
2135	0857	Microcreations
2136	0858	Shoestring Productions
2137	0859	Faberushi
2138	085A	Evesham Micro Ltd.
2139	085B	Panagolin Laser Software
2140	085C	Thomas Rudloff
2141	085D	Daniel Hohabir
2142	085E	GfxBase, Inc.
2143	085F	Axellabs
2144	0860	Roctec Electronics Inc.
2145	0861	Omega Datentechnik
2146	0862	Atlantis
2147	0863	Skytec Computers
2148	0864	Protar Electronics
2149	0865	ACS
2150	0866	Software Results Enterprises	Originally registered to University of Illinois
2151	0867	Infinity Systems Design Group
2152	0868	Trade It
2153	0869	Suntec, Inc.
2154	086A	DJW Micro Systems	Originally registered to Tritec Marketing
2155	086B	Power Computing Ltd.
2156	086C	MacroSystems
2157	086D	Masoboshi GmbH (DCE)
2158	086E	HAL Software Hardware Handel
2159	086F	Mainhattan Data	Originally registered to Michael Lamm Computersysteme
2160	0870	Digital Processing System	Originally registered to bbdp Electronics
2161	0871	Blue Ribbon Soundworks	Originally registered to Design Computer Systems
2162	0872	XPert	Originally registered to The Station
2163	0873	DelaComp	Originally registered to Bryan Williams
2164	0874	Superformance Computer Engineering GmbH
2165	0875	Overland Engineering
2166	0876	Thomas Hamren
2167	0877	Village Tronic
2168	0878	Toolbox Design
2169	0879	Digital Processing System
2170	087A	Superformance
2171	087B	Utilities Unlimited
2172	087C	phase 5
2173	087D	Juergen Kommos
2174	087E	Electronic Design
2175	087F	James Cook University of North Queensland
2176	0880	AmiTrix Development
2177	0881	Ferranti
2178	0882	Leviathan Development
2179	0883	United Video Inc.
2180	0884	GPSoft Pty. Ltd.	Originally registered to Juergen Kommos
2181	0885	ArMAX	Oliver Bausch
2182	0886	CP Computer
2183	0887	AMOK - Amiga Module & Oberon Klub
2184	0888	ITEK Neser & Sieber GbR
2185	0889	Phillip C. Lello
2186	088A	Cyborg Design Services
2187	088B	G2 Systems
2188	088C	Pro System Computersysteme
2189	088D	ZEUS Electronic	Originally registered to MSPI (Markt & Technik)
2190	088E	Altatech
2191	088F	NewTek
2192	0890	M-TEC Hardware Design	Originally registered to Hardware Design Udo Neuroth
2193	0891	Great Valley Products	Originally registered to Viona Development
2194	0892	Amitek	Originally assigned to Marpet Developments
2195	0893	Ingenieurbuero Helfrich
2196	0894	The Neo Group
2197	0895	Cyon
2198	0896	Bob Research Group
2199	0897	Richmond Sound Design Ltd.
2200	0898	US Cybernetics
2201	0899	Fulvio Ieva
2202	089A	Silicon Studio
2203	089B	MacroSystems (USA)	Was named Micro System Devices
2204	089C	Conspector Entertainment
2205	089D	Laserforum
2206	089E	Elbox Computer	Mistakenly used by Index Information Ltd.
2207	089F	Applied Magic Inc.
2208	08A0	SDL Ltd.
2560	0A00	Harms
2588	0A1C	A1K.org Community
2640	0A50	Micronik
3084	0C0C	Team 4
3643	0E3B	E3B	Michael Boehmer
3855	0F0F	Micronik
4096	1000	MegaMicro
4110	100E	DigiFeX
4136	1028	Imtronics/Memphis
4149	1035	PROTAR
4369	1111	Frank Strauß Elektronik	Also used by Kupke
4626	1212	Individual Computers
4648	1228	Flesch Hornemann Computer Elec.
4680	1248	Kupke Computertechnik GmbH
4711	1267	RBM digitaltechnik
4754	1292	MacroSystems
5000	1388	ITH
5001	1389	VMC
5010	1392	Ambience Creation Technology
5011	1393	Creative Development
5012	1394	Georg Braun
5013	1395	Swedish User Group of Amiga
5014	1396	Jakub Bednarski
5015	1397	KryoFlux, Ltd.
5016	1398	Igor Majstorovic
5017	1399	Alastair M. Robinson
5018	139A	Austex Software
5019	139B	Sören Gust
5020	139C	Rok Krajnc
5030	13A6	Tim Tashpulatov
5040	13B0	Retro 7-bit
5132	140C	UAS Interface Ltd.
5500	157C	Inhouse Information
5768	1688	Bio Con
6148	1804	HK-Computer
6502	1966	Cloanto
7777	1E61	Rafal Chyla
8215	2017	Vortex
8244	2034	Spirit Technology
8290	2062	Expansion Systems
8448	2100	ReadySoft
8512	2140	Phase 5 Digital Products
8553	2169	Digital Processing Systems Inc.
8704	2200	ACT Elektronik
8738	2222	ACT Elektronik
9512	2528	Tower Technologies
10676	29B4	Electronic Design
14195	3773	Media-net-Point
14501	38A5	Petsoff, Finland
16375	3FF7	Uwe Gerlach
16707	4143	Ateo Concepts
16708	4144	ALiENDESiGN
16945	4231	A.C.T.
17740	454C	HK-Computer (ELSAT)
18260	4754	MacroSystems (Germany)
19796	4D54	Markt & Technik
22359	5757	Markt & Technik
26464	6760	Combitec
26470	6766	Combitec
32768	8000	M.A.S.T.
43437	A9AD	Reis-Ware
43521	AA01	Cameron
43537	AA11	Reis-Ware
44359	AD47	Matay
46504	B5A8	Phoenix
49160	C008	Combitec
61453	F00D	Forefront Technologies Inc.

For any changes/additions to this registry please use the AmigaOS web site contact form.