Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!hachong From: hachong@watmath.UUCP (Herb Chong) Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga Subject: Re: amiga & st Message-ID: <16564@watmath.UUCP> Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 17:12:11 EDT Article-I.D.: watmath.16564 Posted: Mon Sep 23 17:12:11 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 24-Sep-85 03:24:11 EDT References: <3702@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Reply-To: hachong@watmath.UUCP (Herb Chong) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 25 Summary: In article <3702@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> dan@BBN-LABS-B.ARPA writes: >I think Atari really is encouraging third-party development, especially >compared to Commodore. To get the Amiga's program development package you have >to be certified as a real, bona-fide developer who's going to help make them >rich. To get the Atari program development package all you have to supply (in >addition to $300) is the serial number of your machine. My guess is that >they're afraid that the people who bought it to run Express would find 4000 >pages of documentation and a user-hostile development environment much too >intimidating. does this mean that i, a private individual who has no serious intentions of marketing software but am a real hacker, cannot get enough documentation to do heavy duty development using the system interfaces without starting my own company? i have more than 40Mbytes of public domain C source that i'd like to convert to the Amiga, but if they don't tell me how, i'd rather buy an Atari, even though its graphics are not nearly as good. Herb Chong... I'm user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble.... (will disappear September 30) UUCP: {decvax|utzoo|ihnp4|allegra|clyde}!watmath!hachong CSNET: hachong%watmath@waterloo.csnet ARPA: hachong%watmath%waterloo.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa