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RISC OS 3 Programmer's Reference Manual

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Part 1 - Introduction: An Introduction to RISC OS; ARM Hardware; An Introduction to SWIs; * Commands and the CLI; Generating and handling errors; OS_Byte; OS_Word; Software vectors; Hardware vectors; Interrupts and handling them; Events; Buffers; Communications within RISC OS
Part 2 - The Kernel: Modules; Program Environment; Memory Management; Time and Date; Conversions; Extension ROMs
Part 3 - Kernel input/output: Character Output; VDU Drivers; Sprites; Character Input; The CLI; The rest of the kernel
Part 4 - Using filing systems: Introduction to filing systems; FileSwitch; FileCore; ADFS; RamFS; DOSFS; NetFS; NetPrint; PipeFS; ResourceFS; DeskFS; DeviceFS; Serial device; Parallel device; System devices; The Filer; Filer_Action and FilerSWIs; Free
Part 5 - Writing filing systems: Writing a filing system; Writing a FileCore module; Writing a device driver
Part 6 - Networking: Econet; Fileserver protocol interface; Printer server protocol interface; The Broadcast Loader; BBC Econet; Hourglass; NetStatus
Part 7 - The desktop: The Window Manager; Pinboard; Drag A Sprite; The Filter Manager; The TaskManager module; TaskWindow; ShellCLI
Part 8 - Non-kernel input/output: ColourTrans; The Font Manager; SuperSample module; Draw module
Part 9 - Printing: Printer Drivers; Printer Dumpers; PDumperSupport; Printer definition files; MakePSFont
Part 10 - Internationalisation: MessageTrans; International module; The Territory Manager
Part 11 - Sound: The Sound System; WaveSynth
Part 12 - Utilities: The Buffer Manager; Squash; ScreenBlank
Part 13 - Hardware support: Expansion Cards and Extension ROMs; Floating point emulator; ARM3 Support; The Portable module; Joystick module
Part 14 - Programmer's support: Debugger; The shared C library; BASIC and BASICTrans; Command scripts
Appendixes and tables: Appendix A: ARM assembler; Appendix B: Warnings on the use of ARM assembler; Appendix C: ARM procedure call standard; Appendix D: Code file formats; Appendix E: File formats; Appendix F: System variables; Appendix G: The Acorn Terminal Interface Protocol; Appendix H: Registering names; Table A: VDU codes; Table B: Modes; Table C: File types; Table D: Character sets
Supplemental information for RISC OS 3.5 and above
Part 15 - The kernel: Introduction to RISC OS 3.5 and RISC OS 3.6; ARM hardware; Hardware vectors; Interrupts; Modules; Memory management; CMOS RAM allocation; DMA; Video; JPEG images; Miscellaneous kernel items
Part 16 - Filing and networking: FileSwitch; FileCore; ADFS; DOSFS; CDs and CD-ROMs; NetPrint; Parallel and serial device drivers; Keyboard and mouse; Filing system locking and resets; Free; Writing a filing system; Writing a FileCore module; Econet; AUN; The Internet module; Acorn Access
Part 17 - The desktop: The desktop; Drag An Object; Draw file renderer; RISC OS boot applications; The colour picker; Printing; Internationalisation
Part 18 - Miscellaneous: Sound; CompressJPEG; Expansion card support; Joystick module; Monitor power saving; The Toolbox modules
Appendixes: Appendix A: Warnings on the use of ARM assembler; Appendix B: File formats; Appendix C: Errata and omissions for the RISC OS 3 PRM; Appendix D: Deprecated calls

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RISC OS 3 Programmer's Reference Manual

Part 1 - Introduction

Part 2 - The Kernel

Part 3 - Kernel input/output

Part 4 - Using filing systems

Part 5 - Writing filing systems

Part 6 - Networking

Part 7 - The desktop

Part 8 - Non-kernel input/output

Part 9 - Printing

Part 10 - Internationalisation

Part 11 - Sound

Part 12 - Utilities

Part 13 - Hardware support

Part 14 - Programmer's support

Appendixes and tables

Supplemental information for RISC OS 3.5 and above

Part 15 - The kernel

Part 16 - Filing and networking

Part 17 - The desktop

Part 18 - Miscellaneous

Appendixes

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