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From: watters@favorite.cis.ohio-state.edu (david r watters)
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Subject: Re: MS-DOS emulator for CDTV?
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Date: 3 Jun 91 06:33:15 GMT
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In article <T=1_M&=@warwick.ac.uk> phupp@warwick.ac.uk (S Millington) writes:
>JANUS.library, i.e. provide documentation for software the customer has
>already bought, was is the end user became a JANUS developer!!!!!!!!
>     How much does that cost:-)

I imagine you just have to be a registered developer, which doesn't cost much
at all.

>     How are end users expected to write stuff for JANUS when commodore won't
>release the docs publicly? I would BUY a manual, "JANUS Programmers
>Reference Guide."?

I can think of a lot more projects to take on as a hobby that would be easier
and more productive, thus the lack in commercial manuals.

>     Personaly I only rarely use the bridgeboard, but it is a real pain having
>to source a PC I/O card so I can use a serial port, when there is already a
>perfectly good one on the amiga - even 2400/4800 baud would be useful.

A real pain! NOT!  A serial card in an 8bit config with a printer port and
game port can be had for $19.  A used one may be $10.  Besides what do you need
one for?  You can use the printer port with the Bridgecard and downloads can
be done on the Amiga side and transfered over. (Using some nice software
written for Janus by CBM :-))
As for Prodigy.... HA!

>BTW - The ATonce does allow you to use the amiga serial port. So it can't
>be that hard to implement.

I think it may be bigger than you believe. If not, it would have shipped with
the first XT bridgecard..
Besides, I would imagine the dual-port ram transfers wouldn't be fast enough to
allow any software to redirect all access to an IBM com port to the Amiga 
serial.device and also maintain any sort of acceptable transfer rate.

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