Int 2D  - Amis V3.0+ - Installation Check                                  [t]

   AL = 00h
   AH = multiplex number for program

Return: AL = 00h if free
   AL = FFh if multiplex number in use
       CX = binary version number (CH = major, CL = minor)
       DX:DI -> signature string (see #2257) identifying the program
         using the multiplex number

See Also: INT 2D/AL=01h,INT 2D/AL=02h,INT 2D/AL=03h,INT 2D/AL=04h,INT 2D/AL=05h

See Also: INT 2D/AL=06h
Index: installation check;Alternate Multiplex Interrupt Specification
Index: installation check;AMIS|installation check;FASTMOUS
Index: installation check;SPELLER|installation check;Monitor
Index: installation check;NOLPT|installation check;NOTE
Index: installation check;RBkeyswp|installation check;SWITCHAR
Index: installation check;VGABLANK|installation check;EATMEM
Index: installation check;RECALL|installation check;XPTR2

Format of AMIS signature string:
Offset Size    Description (Table 2257)
 00h  8 BYTEs  blank-padded manufacturer's name (possibly abbreviated)
 08h  8 BYTEs  blank-padded product name
 10h 64 BYTEs  ASCIZ product description (optional, may be a single 00h)

Note:  it is not necessary to reserve a full 64 bytes for the description,
     just enough to store the actual ASCIZ string

See Also: #2258

(Table 2258)
Values for AMIS signatures known to be in use:
 'Byrial J' 'EKLAVO  ' permits keyboard entry of Esperanto accented letters
 'CoveSoft' 'Burnout+' shareware screen saver Burnout Plus
 'Crynwr  ' 'SPELLER ' TSR spelling-checker
 'CPH1995 ' 'CDTSR   ' resident CD-Audio player
 'CPH1996 ' 'DSAPI   '
 'CSJewell' 'Modula3L' Curtis Jewell's Modula-3 compiler (non-TSR)
 'DAISYCHA' 'INDRIVER' Advanced Parallel Port daisy chain driver (vendor name
             in product description field, if desired)
           (see also INT 2D/AL=DCh)
 'DTown SD' 'DTU     ' DTown Software Development's DTown Utilities
           (see also INT 2D/AL=20h)
 'ECLIPSE ' 'PLUMP   ' Eclipse Software's printer and plotter spooler
 'GraySoft' 'GIPC    ' GraySoft's Inter-Process Communications driver
 'heathh  ' 'Monitor '
 'Helge O '        TSRs by Helge Olav Helgesen
 'J. Berry' 'RATSR   ' RemoteAccess Network Manager workstation module
 'JWB    ' 'RAMLIGHT'  James Birdsall's on-screen RAMdisk activity indicator
 'M Better' 'iHPFS   ' Marcus Better's HPFS filesystem driver for DOS
 'M. Paul ' 'FREEVER ' DOS version-faking TSR by Matthias Paul
 'Nildram ' 'ST         '  Screen Thief graphics screen grabber
 'Pino Nav' 'ALTMENU ' activate any program's menu bar by pressing Alt key
 'Pino Nav' 'Keybit  ' Pino Navato's KEYBIT Lite Italian keyboard driver v4+
 'PowrQuot' 'CAPRILOG'
 'PowrQuot' 'CAPRITSR'
 'PowrQuot' 'CAPRIWIN'
 'R-Ware  ' 'dLite   ' run-time data decompression TSR
 'Ralf B  ' 'disaXXYY' RBdisabl -- disable key scancode XX w/ shift states YY
 'Ralf B  ' 'DUALVGA ' dual-VGA support, screen blanker, and DPMS driver
 'Ralf B  ' 'FASTMOUS' example TSR included with sample AMIS library code
 'Ralf B  ' 'NoBreak ' disable Ctrl-@, Ctrl-C, and Ctrl-Break keys
 'Ralf B  ' 'NOLPT n ' example TSR -- turn LPTn into bit-bucket
 'Ralf B  ' 'NOTE    ' example TSR -- popup note-taker
 'Ralf B  ' 'RBclock ' RBclock -- on-screen real-time clock
 'Ralf B  ' 'RBclockE' RBclock -- on-screen elapsed-time clock
 'Ralf B  ' 'RBdvorak' Dvorak keyboard mapping w/ opt Esc/~, LCtrl/CapsLk swap
 'Ralf B  ' 'RBkcount' display count of keystrokes on screen
 'Ralf B  ' 'RBkeyswp' RBkeyswap v3.0+ -- swap Esc/~ and LCtrl/CapsLock keys
 'Ralf B  ' 'RBnoboot' disable Ctrl-Alt-Del key combination
 'Ralf B  ' 'ShftCaps' require Shift-CapsLock to turn on CapsLock
 'Ralf B  ' 'ShftNumL' require Shift-NumLock to turn off NumLock
 'Ralf B  ' 'SWITCHAR' example TSR -- add switchar() support removed from DOS5
 'Ralf B  ' 'VGABLANK' VGA-only screen blanker
 'Ralf B  ' 'WINTAME ' yield CPU when program in Win95 DOS box is idle
 'Sally IS' 'Mdisk   ' removeable, resizeable RAMdisk
 'Sally IS' 'Scr2Tex ' screen dumper with output in (La)Tex format
 'SRT    ' 'STOPBOOT'  reboot preventer by Steve Talbot
 'Thaco      ' 'NEST    '  Eirik Pedersen's programmer's delimiter matcher
 'TifaWARE' 'EATMEM  ' George A. Theall's public domain memory restrictor for
           testing programs (v1.1+)
 'TifaWARE' 'RECALL  ' public domain commandline editor and history (v1.2+)
 'Todd   ' 'XPTR2   '  PC-to-Transputer interface by Todd Radel
 'WlkngOwl' 'NoiseSYS' NOISE.SYS random-number generator

See Also: #2257