Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!olivea!orc!inews!iwarp.intel.com!gargoyle!chinet!saj From: saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: ST books Summary: Register as a developer Keywords: ST developer registration value Message-ID: <1990Sep26.193632.10608@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: 26 Sep 90 19:36:32 GMT References: Distribution: comp Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX Lines: 18 If you're planning to do any serious programming on the ST, I cant recommend developer registration highly enough. The documentation in the developers kit is substantial; the standard tools in the kit include some VERY useful ones, and most to the point, Atari developers support has straightened out unbelievably much in the last few months. If Atari ever improves their customer support that much, they might become a market force to be reckoned with. Consider how much you'd pay for half a dozen third party books. Throw in a helpful person a phone call away and a couple of utility programs. How bad a bargain could the equivalent be at about $250? Another thing: while you can get an awful long way with one machine, I'm learning that as a product nears commercial release reasons develop for having several machines: need for several TOS versions, separate test and development environments, untimely hardware failures and more. Makes the developer discount program invaluable. Steve J.