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From: ln63fkn@sdcc7.UUCP (Paul van de Graaf)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari
Subject: Re: Action! Programming
Message-ID: <192@sdcc7.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 28-Nov-85 06:15:19 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 28 06:15:19 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 28-Nov-85 19:22:09 EST
References: <633@tekigm.UUCP> <177@sdcc7.UUCP> <1731@uwmacc.UUCP>
Reply-To: ln63fkn@sdcc7.UUCP (Paul van de Graaf)
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Organization: U.C. San Diego, Academic Computer Center
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In article <1731@uwmacc.UUCP> oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious Oyster) writes:
>   In order to run an program written in Action!, you have to either have the
>Action! cartridge plugged in, or you have to have purchased special software
>(another $99?) to tweak it into stand-alone executable mode, i.e. in order 
>for anyone else to run your Action! programs.
>
>... [C]ould somebody with an Action! package confirm or deny this?

Yes, you either need the cartridge or the run-time package (~ $30.00).
I'm working on a program in Action! which adds the run-time package copied 
from your cartridge to the end of an Action! executable, and patches all the
calls to the run-time library.  This project has a somewhat low priority,
but I should get it finished by the end of the year.  I'll either put it in
the public domain, or sell it to Analog.  Don't see how you could have come
up with a price of $99 for the Action! cartridge, I got mine for $59.00.
Shop around!

Paul van de Graaf		sdcsvax!sdcc7!ln63fkn		U. C. San Diego