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Can anyone point me a reliable source for writing device drivers? I am looking to add a built-in serial mouse driver to a program that I've been working on. I don't wish to use mouse.com or mouse.sys, I'm looking to write mouse.??? In either assembler or C.
TIA
Ronin
http://www.accu.org/bookreviews/publ.../w/w001429.htm
Maybe, just maybe you could try
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...river+tutorial
Thanks once again Salem... the first link looks good. I tried everything on google from dos+device+driver to writing device drivers.... two or so useful pages, and one interesting document that I haven't looked at yet, so I thought I'd ask you guys. :)
Speaking of drivers, for a field trip a couple of years ago we went to this company that designs medical equipment, and I spoke to one of the programmer who was designing this laser heart surgery thing, and he had this little device that would take your code, and compile it onto a microchip. Does anyone know what these cost or any other details on them? They look very useful for making your own hardware and stuff.
Do you mean PLDs? In my digital logic lab course, I made a few projects using pldshell to compile jdec files and then use a program from Altera to write the file to the pld. You might also be thinking of an eprom burner. Run a search on google for "build your own eprom programmer" or similar.
http://www.altera.com is a starting point if you're interested.
If it's not them, consider the PIC micro's
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...-1&q=pic+micro
Thanks. Anyone here ever used one? Are they worth getting?
A friend of mine uses PIC processors for some things, they are pretty flexible and extreamly cheap, however they use some strange Assembly syntax which will take some getting used to. I would also recommend the DS5000 which is more x86 like in its ASM syntax, here is a good tutorial, though the chip is quite expencive. I think Garfield has done some Z8 programming, so you should ask him about that, i dont really know much about them.