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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A European point of view (LONG)
Message-ID: <620@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 7 Dec 90 14:32:17 GMT
References: <8442@dog.ee.lbl.gov> <1363@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <1363@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> U3364521@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Lou Cavallo) writes:
>
>Perhaps Commodore should write and have published (in various languages) a
>series of "How to program the Amiga" _texts_ from the beginner to advanced
>levels?

Ah, I forgot something in my previous posting: Such a beast exists already
but is only about two pages big, is found at the beginning of every RKM
and in all the DevCon docs. One day I just translated this into German
and spreaded it here to magazines, developers and dealers. Well, it even
got printed in our biggest Amiga Magazin, but that was all, not much
effect to see. As you perhaps see, we try at least... ("The crew that
never rests", amen :-)

From one of our registered developers I hear that he is just about to
publish such a book in German! I tend to trust him, so that we perhaps
can recommend this one to all the rest, let's hope!

>In fact what I'd most like to see (but never expect to) is a CBM seal of
>approval for other publishers' Amiga texts and reference manuals.
>Sort of like the "this software is AmigaDOS 2.x compatible" stickers.

Well, if YOU are willing to pay so much more for your next Amiga, that
every country is able to hire another (wo)man to do these reviews,
then perhaps. You see, I keep a (suspected not complete) list of all
Amiga books published only in German language. This list fills already
seven (or even 8?) pages. Who would be able to read and check all
this? And all the monthly magazines? 

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