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From: gl8f@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Programming self-help
Keywords: programming sources utilities archive
Message-ID: <1990May5.161812.440@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Date: 5 May 90 16:18:12 GMT
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In article <1990May4.163735.9794@chinet.chi.il.us> saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) writes:
>Right off the bat: I'm not volunteering to manage this, and it REQUIRES a
>manager, so the idea may be doomed.
>
>There are a lot of questions of the form "How do I get the ST to do job X
>in language Y".  These are well answered with small example programs.

Yes, this would be an excellent way to spread documentation about the
ST. How about one example for each BIOS, XBIOS, and GEMDOS call? A few
complete AES/VDI-based programs? Examples that show how to read the
right mouse button, use the VBI queue, work with GDOS.

Any volunteers?

>What I will offer to do is contribute a few goodies of this type myself.

Ditto.

"Perhaps I'm commenting a bit cynically, but I think I'm qualified to."
                                              - Dan Bernstein