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From: baggins@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Bill Segall)
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Subject: Re: 2.0 includes
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Date: 23 Nov 90 04:02:10 GMT
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In <16035@cbmvax.commodore.com> bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson) writes:

>In article <5862@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> baggins@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au writes:
>>So, could someone from Commordore post them or circulate them via CATS or
>>something?

>In good time :)

>>Would it be legal for me to copy those Commodore supplied includes from
>>someone else, or for someone to mail them to me?

>Not really.

>>Bill.

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What is "good time". I would have thought that Commodore would like people
to write software that is compatible with 2.0. The 3000 is a great machine
but without lots of software it is doomed to be a marketing failure. The
success of 2.0 depends on the software, and we can't write it, unless we
get sufficient information/documentation. Here in Australia we are further
hamstrung by the abject uselessness of Commodore Australia. If we had
support like you do in the States then we might have a chance.

In summary, I believe it is time Commodore made available a preliminary
version of all documentaion/information necessary/useful to program 2.0
compatible software. To not do so, is short-sighted and frustrating to
people attempting to program, when they knopw they will have to rewrite
this stuff in 6 months. Also, the stuff I write now, will probably not run
on the 3000, or on the 500/2000 runnning 2.0 *if* that ever happens.

Give us a break *please*.

Bill.