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System Documentation

This chapter of WikiPendium describes Atari software systems. How they are built, how they works, how to use them or interface with them as a programmer.

By 'Atari System', we mean all products related to the TOS operating system or its direct evolutions: Atari softwares MetaDOS, MultiTOS?, and third party softwares MiNT, Geneva?, Magic?, oAESis?, XaAES.

Other third party system extensions, like TCP/IP stacks, only offer specific new features to the underlying system. These are not documented here, but in the SystemExtensionsDocumentation.

To know more about how to use the Atari Systems, have a look at the HigherLevelProgrammingReference and the LowerLevelProgrammingReference.

Introduction: TosDesign

Lower level TOS

GEMDOS
- GEMDOS features
  - character functions
  - date & time
  - file system
  - memory
  - processes
- GemdosFunctionReference

MetaDOS
- Block device API for TOS
- MetaDOS documentation for developers (fr) (looks like an official documentation)
- MetadosFunctionReference
- CreatingBosDriver (Unofficial documentation for creating BOS driver for MetaDOS) by Patrice Mandin

Lower level programming standards
- low level information: the CookieJar
- hooking system calls: the XbraProtocol?
  - XBRA protocol and example by Klaus Pedersen

BIOS (Basic Input/Output System)
- Bios features
  - VT52Emulator
  - Bios devices (console, vt52)
  - Bios vectors
- BiosFunctionReference

XBIOS (eXtended Basic Input/Output System)
- XBIOS features
  - Video system
  - Sound system
  - DSP functions
  - Disk functions
  - Serial port
  - Printer functions
- XbiosFunctionReference

Line-A?
- Line-A overview
- Line-A variables
- Line-A fonts
- LineAFunctionReference

Higher level TOS

AES (Application Environment Services)
- AES features
- AesFunctionReference

VDI (Virtual Device Interface)
- VDI features
- GDOS
  - More Joy of GDOS version 2.3, by Gerd Castan (translated by Stefan Damerau) (former version 2.2 also available)
- VdiFunctionReference?