Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!hybrid!scifi!bywater!uunet!cbmvax!andy
From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Public domain Amiga Transformer
Message-ID: <18120@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 26 Jan 91 03:56:16 GMT
References: <1991Jan25.045117.22018@csis.dit.csiro.au>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991Jan25.045117.22018@csis.dit.csiro.au> dave@csis.dit.csiro.au (David Campbell) writes:
>
>Why doesn't Commodore make "Amiga Transformer" freely distributable,
>or at least offer the source (free) under some non-disclosure

For some reason, this gets asked a lot;  Basically, it was done
by a 3rd party developer who owns it, and the source.

We can't give it out.

>Come on Commodore, don't just sit on the source!
>
>[1]  As far as I know you can't buy it anymore.
>[2]  Its slow and doesn't do graphics as it is.
>[3]  Internally its completely position independant like a macintosh
>     program, and its as ugly as the old dos.library.


>
>Whats it written in?  BCPL???

Its 100% assembler.

>
>Dave Campbell
>dave@csis.dit.csiro.au

Why not try and write your own ?  You may find it harder than yo think,
but yours may turn out quick, position dependent, and prettier than
the old dos library.

			andy
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