Amiga Hardware Manufacturer ID Registry

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.

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.

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)	Manufacturer	Notes
211	Pacific Peripherals
256	MacroSystems US
512	3-State Computertechnik
513	Commodore
514	Commodore
515	Combitech/Macrosystem
756	Progressive Peripherals & Software
1001	Tecmar
1002	Telesys
1003	The Micro-Forge
1004	Card Co. (Supra)
1005	A-Squared
1006	Comspec Communications
1007	HT Electronics
1008	RDS Software
1009	Anakin Research
1010	MicroBotics
1011	Bob Krauth
1012	Access Associates (Alegra)
1013	Mini Comp Systems Ltd.
1014	Cypress Technology
1015	Fuller Computers
1016	Galaxy Computers
1017	ADA Research
1018	Computer Service Italia
1019	Amigo
1020	Micro-Solutions Inc.
1021	Stacar International
1022	Video Precisions
1023	ASDG, Inc.
1025	Ing. Buero Kalawsky
1026	Computer Tuning
1027	Interplan Unternehmensberatung
1028	Peter Ohlich
1030	Productivity Center
1041	Design Labs
1042	MCS
1043	B. J. Freeman
1044	Side Effects Inc.
1045	Oklahoma Personal Comp.
1046	Advanced Micro Innovations
1047	Industrial Support Services
1048	Technisoft
1049	Prolific, Inc.
1050	Softeam, Inc.
1051	GRC Electronics
1052	David Lai
1053	Ameristar Technologies
1054	Cline Refrigeration
1055	Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.
1056	Supra Corp. (Creative Microsystems)
1057	Wayne Diener
1058	CSA
1059	Trionix, Inc.
1060	David Lucas
1061	Analog Precision	Also assigned to D & L Distributing
1267	RBM Digitaltechnik
1337	Thomas Stenzel
1576	Boris Križma
2002	Mimetics Corp.
2003	ACDA
2004	Finn R. Jacobsen
2005	Elthen Electronics
2006	Nine Tiles Computer Systems Ltd.
2007	Analog Electronics
2008	Bell & Howell
2009	Roland Kochler
2010	Byte Corp.
2012	DKB, Inc.	Previously named Michigan Software
2013	Pacific Peripherals
2014	Sysaphus Software
2015	Digitronics
2016	Akron Systems
2017	Great Valley Products
2018	Calmos
2019	Dover Research
2020	David Krehbiel
2021	Synergy Peripheral Systems	Also known as California Access
2022	Xetec
2023	Micron Technology
2024	CH Electronics
2025	American Liquid Light
2026	Ateo Concepts	Originally registered as Progressive Peripherals & Software
2027	Wicat Systems
2028	Applied Systems & Peripherals
2029	Delaware Valley Software
2030	Palomax
2031	Incognito Software
2032	Jadesign
2033	BVR
2034	Spirit Tech
2035	Spirit Tech
2036	Atronic
2037	Scott Karlin
2038	Howitch
2039	Sullivan Brothers Visual Engineers
2040	G I T
2041	Amigo Business Computers
2042	Micro E Ab
2043	Ralph Kruse
2044	Clearpoint Research
2045	Kodiak
2046	BSC	Originally registered to Phoenix Electronics
2047	No Name Shown
2048	Commodore Braunschweig
2049	BSC	Originally registered to Elaborate Bytes
2050	C-Ltd.
2051	Spartanics
2052	Computer Tuning
2053	Trans Data Systems
2054	Applied Systems & Peripherals Ltd.
2055	Amiga Solutions
2056	Adept Development
2057	Advanced Computer Design
2058	Sir Netics
2059	Expert Services
2060	Digital Art Systems
2061	Adept Development
2062	Expansion Technologies (Expansion Systems)
2063	Alphatech
2064	Edotronik GmbH
2065	California Access/Synergy	Originally registered to Logical Design Works
2066	Bowden, Williams, Full & Assoc.
2067	NES, Inc.
2068	Amdev
2069	Big Brother Security Systems
2070	Active Circuits Inc.
2071	ICD, Inc.
2072	Multi-Meg Electronique
2073	Kupke Computertechnik GmbH
2074	The Checkered Ball
2075	Hi Tension Computer Services Ltd. (UK)
2076	Alfa Data	Originally assigned to Elmtech Research, Ltd. (UK)
2077	Clartscreen, Ltd. (UK)
2078	Interworks
2079	Galysh Enterprises
2080	Realtime Games Software Ltd.
2081	GBS
2082	Circum Design Inc.
2083	Alberta Micro Electronic Center
2084	Bestech
2085	Lasar Fantasy
2086	Pulsar
2087	Ivis
2088	Applied Engineering
2089	Solid-State Design & Development
2090	Vison Quest
2091	Seaview Software
2092	BSC	Mistakenly used by ADS (Advanced Development Software)
2093	Bernd Culenfeld
2094	American Liquid Light
2095	CEGITES
2096	EV Industries
2097	Silicon Peace
2098	Black Belt Systems
2099	Steve Yaeger
2100	ReadySoft
2101	Phoenix Micro Technologies
2102	Advanced Systems & Software	Orignally assigned to Preferred Technology
2103	Rombo Productions
2104	Impulse Inc.
2105	Beta Unlimited
2106	Memory Expansion System, Ltd.
2107	Vortex Computer Systems GmbH
2108	Platypus Systems
2109	Gigatron OHG
2110	PG Electronics
2111	New Technologies Group
2112	Interactive Video Systems
2113	H. K. Computer
2114	C. H. Helfrich Elektronik
2115	Xanadu
2116	AMS
2117	X-Pert
2118	The Amiga Centre
2119	Digital Pacific
2120	Solid State Leisure
2121	Analog Electronics
2122	Cumana
2123	KAPS 2C Conception
2124	Mike Mason
2125	For Your Eyes
2126	Volkmar Breitfeld Computersysteme
2127	Sunrize Industries
2128	Scott Advanced Micro Designs
2129	Digital Micronics
2130	Alfa-Laval
2131	Multigros A/S
2132	Archos
2133	Icom Simulations
2134	Commodore Test Engineering Group
2135	Microcreations
2136	Shoestring Productions
2137	Faberushi
2138	Evesham Micro Ltd.
2139	Panagolin Laser Software
2140	Thomas Rudloff
2141	Daniel Hohabir
2142	GfxBase, Inc.
2143	Axellabs
2144	Roctec Electronics Inc.
2145	Omega Datentechnik
2146	Atlantis
2147	Skytec Computers
2148	Protar Electronics
2149	ACS
2150	University of Illinois
2151	Infinity Systems Design Group
2152	Trade It
2153	Suntec, Inc.
2154	Tritec Marketing
2155	Power Computing Ltd.
2156	MacroSystems
2157	Masoboshi GmbH
2158	HAL Software Hardware Handel
2159	Michael Lamm Computersysteme
2160	Digital Processing System
2160	bbdp Electronics
2161	Blue Ribbon Soundworks	Originally registered to Design Computer Systems
2162	The Station
2163	Bryan Williams
2164	Superformance Computer Engineering GmbH
2165	Overland Engineering
2166	Thomas Hamren
2167	Village Tronic
2168	Toolbox Design
2169	Digital Processing System
2170	Superformance
2171	Utilities Unlimited
2172	phase 5
2180	Juergen Kommos
2181	ArMAX
2174	Electronic Design
2175	James Cook University of North Queensland
2176	AmiTrix Development
2177	Ferranti
2178	Leviathan Development
2179	United Video Inc.
2180	GPSoft Pty. Ltd.
2181	Oliver Bausch (ArMAX)
2182	CP Computer
2183	AMOK - Amiga Module & Oberon Klub
2184	ITEK Neser & Sieber GbR
2185	Phillip C. Lello
2186	Cyborg Design Services
2187	G2 Systems
2188	Pro System Computersysteme
2189	MSPI (Markt & Technik)
2190	Altatech
2191	NewTek
2192	Hardware Design Udo Neuroth
2193	Viona Development
2194	Amitek	Originally assigned to Marpet Developments
2195	Ingenieurbuero Helfrich
2196	The Neo Group
2197	Cyon
2198	Bob Research Group
2199	Richmond Sound Design Ltd.
2200	US Cybernetics
2201	Fulvio Ieva
2202	Silicon Studio
2203	Micro System Devices
2204	Conspector Entertainment
2205	Laserforum
2206	Elbox Computer	Mistakenly used by Index Information Ltd.
2207	Applied Magic Inc.
2208	SDL Ltd.
2588	A1K.org Community
3643	E3B, Michael Boehmer
4369	Unknown	Reported to be already in use by unknown manufacturer(s)
4626	Individual Computers
4648	Flesch Hornemann Computer Elec.
4754	MacroSystems
5000	ITH
5001	VMC
5010	Ambience Creation Technology
5011	Creative Development
5012	Georg Braun
5013	Swedish User Group of Amiga
5014	Jakub Bednarski
5015	KryoFlux, Ltd.
5016	Igor Majstorovic
5017	Alastair M. Robinson
5018	Austex Software
5019	Sören Gust
5020	Rok Krajnc
5030	Tim Tashpulatov
5768	Bio Con
8704	ACT Elektronik
8738	ACT Elektronik
14195	Media-net-Point
14501	Petsoff, Finland
16707	Ateo Concepts
16708	ALiENDESiGN
16945	A.C.T.
43521	Cameron
61453	Forefront Technologies Inc.

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