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From: UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Newbie developer blues.
Message-ID: <90341.162052UH2@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 7 Dec 90 21:20:52 GMT
References: <901204.08444761.046515@CMR.CP6>
Organization: Penn State University
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In article <901204.08444761.046515@CMR.CP6>, Dennis_Grant@CMR001.BITNET says:

>     1) What does developer's status with CBM entail? Who do I contact
>        about getting it? How much? Student discount?

Small time developer is about $85.  It gets you some good stuff, including
good technical information.

Call Commodore on the telephone.  (They are in West Chester, outside of
Philadelphia.)  Ask for Commodore Amiga Technical Services (I think 8-).



>     2) What is out there in terms of essential literature? Where do you
>        get them?

The 3 volume ROM Kernel Manuals (RKM) from Addison-Wesley ,published in 1990.
Order them from your local bookstore.  Read them.  Study them.  Caress them.
Cherish them.  Take them to fine restaurants...



>     3) What are the 'must have' developer's tools?

Hmmm.  Generically, the usual---editor, compiler, manuals.  Specifically,
I don't know of anything that you *gotta* have, or else.



>     4) With regards to C, what are the incompatabilities between Manx and
>        SAS? What versions are most recent? Recommendations? How hard is it
>        to port Manx source to SAS source?

Depends on the Manx source.  If it is pretty ordinary, it is easy.  If it
uses lots of Manxisms, it is hard.  In either case, it is always easier to
port from a compiler you know well to one you know less well than the other
way around.

>     5) My first project entails writing a device driver. Where can I find
>        info on this? Example source? How big of a project am I looking at?

   See the RKM manuals.  Also, CATS will sell you the source to all the
examples from the RKM, and they are on a Fish disk.            letters too.