The source code and tutorials provided on this page is without warranty and provided "as is" for personal use. The user should use caution and run the example code at their own risk. Resale or commerical use of these tutorials is not permitted. The tutorials and source code on this page are mostly about 10 years old and are provided here only as help for those who may find them useful. While I will accept comments, bug reports and suggestions but the tutorials and source code are considered legacy and is not under any on going development or support. I would rather not hear any complaints about the tutorials or source code as well being that first they are free and second they were never commerical products.

Feel free to report type-o's in the tutorials, grammar and missing punctuation however realize that the majority of these tutorials are very old if they are in text file format.

C/C++ Users Journal/Doctor Dobbs Journal

• Sharing Memory with the Virtual Machine - November 2005.
  
• Introduction to Power Debugging - August 2007.
  

Debugging Tutorial Series

• Debug Tutorial Part 1 - Introduction to CDB and NTSD.
  
• Debug Tutorial Part 2 - The Stack and how to use it.
  
• Debug Tutorial Part 3 - The Heap and how to use it.
  
• Debug Tutorial Part 4 - Writing WINDBG extensions.
  
• Debug Tutorial Part 5 - Handle Leaks.
  
• Debug Tutorial Part 6 - Navigating The Kernel Debugger.
  
• Debug Tutorial Part 7 - Locks and Synchronization Objects.
  

Driver Development Series

• Driver Development Part 1 - Introduction to Drivers.
  
• Driver Development Part 2 - Introduction to Implementing IOCTLs.
  
• Driver Development Part 3 - Introduction to driver contexts.
  
• Driver Development Part 4 - Introduction to device stacks.
  
• Driver Development Part 5 - Introduction to the Transport Device Interface.
  
• Driver Development Part 6 - Introduction to XP display driver architecture.
  

WIN32 WINMM Audio

• Playing .WAV files - Play .WAV files using WIN32's MultiMedia API (waveOut*).
  

Older Legacy Tutorials

• Basic 3D Tutorial - Very basic introduction to 3D.
  
• Assembly Tutorial Part 1 - This tutorial explains number bases.
  
• Assembly Tutorial Part 2 - This tutorial attempts to explain the machine as an abstract interface which once removed allows you to think of the computer in a different way.
  
• Assembly Tutorial Part 3 - This tutorial starts to explain the logic that will be needed when programming in assembly.
  
• Erasing CMOS - This tutorial explains how to erase the computer's CMOS.
  
• Fire Algorithm - This tutorial explains a version of the famous fire algorithm.
  
• Fixed Point Math - This is a very basic introduction to fixed point math.
  
• FPU Programming - This is an introduction to programming the x86 FPU.
  
• Graphics Introduction - Basic introduction to graphics.
  
• GUI Tutorial - Introduction to basic GUI programming concepts.
  
• IEEE Floating Point - Describes the IEEE Floating Point formats.
  
• Joystick Programming - Programming for the joystick at the hardware level.
  
• Keyboard Programming - Programming for the keyboard at the hardware level.
  
• Mouse Programming - Programming the mouse for DOS using Microsoft's mouse interrupt driver.
  
• Object Oriented Programming - Very basic introduction to C++.
  
• PCX File Format - Tutorial on the PCX File Format.
  
• Protected Mode Introduction Part 1 - Basic introduction to Protected Mode.
  
• Protected Mode Introduction Part 2 - Expanding on the basic introduction given in the first tutorial.
  
• 2D Primatives - Describes the basics of 2D graphics.
  
• Reboot - How to reboot the computer programatically in DOS.
  
• Snow Algorithm - My own modification to the fire algorithm to implement snow.
  
• Super VGA Tutorial - Tutorial on VESA bank switching.
  
• Network Tutorial - Very basic introduction to TCP/IP and Client/Server.
  
• Introduction to VGA Card - Basic introduction to the VGA Card.
  
• Mode 13h Tutorial - Introduction to 320x200x8 graphics mode.
  
• WIN32 Programming - Introduction to WIN32 programming.
  
• WIN32 Programming for TASM Part 1 - Program WIN32 applications in assembly language for TASM.
  
• WIN32 Programming for TASM Part 2 - Program WIN32 applications in assembly language for TASM.
  
• WIN32 Programming for TASM Part 3 - Program WIN32 applications in assembly language for TASM.
  
• NTSD - Introduction to NTSD.