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From: rfb@h.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA (Rick Busdiecker)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: re: Request for mac sources
Message-ID: <251@h.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 14:47:52 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 16 14:47:52 1985
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> Lately, I have seen some nice desk accessories, games and even
> applications being posted to the net for the mac. I happen to
> have an atari 520ST and would like to have the source to these
> programs posted as well if possible. I am sure the amiga users
> would concur. I for one would rather see more interchange of
> information than barriers being raised by statements such as
> "My machine is the best". A lot of public domain software is 
> available for the mac today, but I imagine that ST users will
> soon be contributing as well. I also feel that there is great
> learning value in seeing the source code for a program rather
> than just using it.

As soon as (if?) the cc68 cross-compiler can produce code for the Amiga, it
should be very easy to move many of the programs that were developed for the
Mac over to the Amiga.

This is yet another good reason for writing good device-dependant c-code when
developing for a micro.

				Rick Busdiecker
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