Atari Lower Level Programming Reference

• Disk
  • boot sectors (floppy boot sector, hd boot sector, bad sector list)
    • Atari ST Disk Tutorial by Zoë Stephenson
    • (fr) at Abandonware Magazine Archive
  • hard disk partitions
  • disk formatting
  • file allocation table
  • directory structure

• Timers
  • System timer
  • MFP timers

• Interrupts
  • 68k processor interrupts
  • MFP interrupts

• Sound
  • Yamaha sound generator
    • YM overview
    • YM register reference
    • YM tricks (samples restitution through YM)
  • DMA audio system
    • STE & TT audio system
    • Falcon audio system

• DSP
  • DSP overview
  • DSP transfers
  • DSP memory
  • DSP interrupts

• Video
  • ST, STE & TT shifters
    • shifter overview
    • shifter registers
    • shifter tricks (overscan methods)
  • Blitter
    • Blitter overview
    • Blitter registers
    • Blitter programming
  • Falcon videl
    • Videl overview
    • Videl registers
    • Videl tricks

• Keyboard
  • keyboard ACIA commands and responses
  • IntelligentKeyboardBible
  • joysticks handling
  • mouse handling

• STE & Falcon Joypads
  • joypad overview
  • joypad register reference
  • joypad handling
  • Joypad programming (fr) by The Teller, published in STimulus

• Serial port
  • MFP Serial port programming
  • SCC serial port programming

• MIDI
  • MIDI ACIA