Resources

Wine

• source.winehq.org Cross-referenced marked up source
• source.winehq.org/git GitWeb interface to the Wine source
• cvs.winehq.org CVS web interface to the Wine source
• Wine API Automatically generated Wine API documentation
• API db Cross-reference of Wine APIs with many Windows versions

Win32

• Win32 API Tutorial If you know nothing about Windows, you can't do worse than start here.
• MSDN Online Microsoft's new site.
• DirectX Multimedia API for games, etc.
• The Open32 API is the subset of Win32 implemented by IBM's OS/2 Merlin. Open32 provides source code compatibility, which the Odin project (formerly Win32-OS/2) plans on extending to full binary compatibility.
• Undocumented Windows 95
• System Internals Utilities and information related to low-level hacking of NT and 95. Once was called NT Internals.
• Wotsit's Format Website devoted to file formats

Windows 3.x

• ECMA-234 The official European Computer Manufacturer's Association specification of the Windows API. Known as APIW while it was in draft.
• DOS Interrupts Ralf Brown's exhaustive and famous Interrupt List
• Garbo DOS archives

Unix

• Version 3 of the single Unix Specification.
• LDP Linux documentation project. Vast resource.
• FreeBSD man pages
• LinuxThreads
• Linux Threads FAQ

X

• X Sites Ken Lee's list of all things X related
• X resource pages courtesy of The Motif Zone
• The Motif Zone Lots of solid X information, in addition to information about toolkits like Motif.
• ICCCM How X programs are supposed to talk to each other
• X specs The definition of X. Covers X11R6.8.1
• Jim Breen's japanese page has lots of good internationalization links

Fonts

• TTF on Linux HOWTO
• Charset info From Microsoft.
• comp.fontsFAQ
• Panose 2.0 Font spec
• X11R6 Fonts X is more typographically capable than it appears, as is made clear in this paper by Nathan Meyers.
• FreeType Free TrueType font engine
• t1lib PostScript T1 font engine, extracted and improved from X11 sources.
• TTFtoT42 Use TTF with Postscript rasterizers
• TrueDoc sample Antialiasing and subpixel positioning sales pitch
• Unicode Info From Roman Czybora.
• Charles Bigelow, Scientific American, 1983.
• Subpixel antialiasing Everything old is new again

C

• C/C++ Resources From the Association of C & C++ Users.
• Programming in C Standards, suggestions, and trivia. If you're curious about Unicode and <wctype.h>, see Normative Addendum 1.

x86 Assembly

• Sandpile.org Another one.
• Intel Secrets What Intel doesn't want you to know
• Intel Documentation What Intel does want you to know -- how to write code for their chips.
• A link to the Intel performance libraries

Books Book links are courtesy of Amazon.com.

• Windows 95 System Programming Secrets by Matt Pietrek, IDG Books, 1995. A solid reference on selected aspects of the implementation of Windows 95. Out of print, but available as of 98-07-31 at Barnes & Noble for 15 USD.
• Windows Internals: The Implementation of the Windows Operating System, Matt Pietrek, Addison-Wesley, 1993.
• Unauthorized Windows 95 by Andrew Schulman. Out of print.
• Undocumented Windows by Andrew Schulman, Maxey, and Pietrek.
• Windows Assembly Language & Systems Programming: 16- and 32-bit Low-Level Programming for the PC and Windows Berry Kauler, Miller Freeman, 1997.
• Windows 95 Win 32 Programming API Bible One of several Win32 API references.
• Inside Windows NT Second Edition. David Solomon, Microsoft Press, 1998. Many changes from Helen Custer's First Edition.
• Undocumented DOS: a programmer's guide to reserved MS-DOS functions and data structures Andrew Schulman, et. al. Addison-Wesley, 1990.
• The FreeDOS Kernel An MS-DOS emulator for platform independence and embedded systems development

Usenet

• comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine
• Archive, courtesy of Google Groups
• Backfiles, 1994-1996 On Dag's site
• Google Groups Search Google Groups for Wine references not in c.e.m.w.