Building A/UX Device Drivers This book describes how to build A/UX device drivers and how peripheral devices interact with A/UX. This book is available from APDA as part of the set called A/UX Device Drivers Kit. Click to expand...

Does anybody have a copy of this kit/book? I wasn't able to find it on the internet and other people have also been unsuccessfully looking for it...

Hi @robin-fo! :)[wave]

Let's check this out. Apple usually is nice about giving a road map in their plethora of documentation.


Let's see where we can find what you need about developing device drivers for A/UX.

Cheers!

Head over to aux-penelope and get A/UX 2.0 - that should have the guide somewhere there.


Cheers!

Thanks. I've already installed A/UX 2 and 3 multiple times and am accustomed to UNIX based systems. I'm looking for this specific documentation only.

I realized that the book is separate. Sorry. I did find this GitHub where a person is trying to find all documentation for A/UX:

Wow. :oops: This specific documentation is super hard to find.

Yep! That's why I'm asking here :)

I may have it. I will have to look.

>> BFEXTU said:

I may have it. I will have to look. Click to expand...

BRILLIANT[grinning-face-with-s]

Well...no promises. I think I remember seeing it in the '90s. It may have been with my Gen 1 Inside Mac books. But, they are in storage somewhere near the Ark of the Covenant from Raiders of the Lost Ark.

>> BFEXTU said:

Well...no promises. I think I remember seeing it in the '90s. It may have been with my Gen 1 Inside Mac books. But, they are in storage somewhere near the Ark of the Covenant from Raiders of the Lost Ark. Click to expand...

Don't worry, it's not urgent at all...

I found some Gen 1 stuff, but I am missing IM III and IM V, so A/UX may be with them in a box somewhere, or I don't have it.

I have some more clues. The A/UX Toolbox: Macintosh ROM Interface (Release 3.0) documentation lists supplementary references. Among them is the Building A/UX Device Drivers book. The author is "APDA" (part of Apple Computer, Inc.), published in 1992. I wonder if the publisher was Addison Welsey, like many of Apple's technical books?

Cheers,

Yes...and...APDA is Apple Programmers/Developers Association. As an Apple Developer in the '90s, you would order software and tech literature and get piles of stuff - disks, books, binders, etc.

>> BFEXTU said:

Yes...and...APDA is Apple Programmers/Developers Association. As an Apple Developer in the '90s, you would order software and tech literature and get piles of stuff - disks, books, binders, etc. Click to expand...

Now that is intriguing! :D What would it take to rebuild that association and add "Retro" before the APDA?

It might be possible. I have an APDA Catalogue from the inital QuickTime era. And I found IM III, but no V or A/UX.

>> BFEXTU said:

It might be possible. I have an APDA Catalogue from the inital QuickTime era. And I found IM III, but no V or A/UX. Click to expand...

When was APDA established? Did they have anything to do with the Apple II series and the 68k Macintosh?

I previous assembled a collection of A/UX install media and reference documentation.

Try here:


;)

>> retr01 said:

Wow. This specific documentation is super hard to find. Click to expand...

>> Mr. Fahrenheit said:

I previous assembled a collection of A/UX install media and reference documentation. Try here: Apple A/UX 2.0.0 and 2.0.1 Reference Archive - Macintosh Garden This reference archive is a collection of clean, fresh extractions of original install disks, for Apple A/UX 2.0 and 2.0.1 operating system. Compiled and released as a 'set' by Mr. Fahrenheit, from original in-hand media, where possible. macintoshgarden.org Click to expand...

Thank you, @Mr. Fahrenheit.