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From: ftw@datacube.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Exactly what IS in a reg dev kit?
Message-ID: <105100044@datacube>
Date: 31 Dec 87 15:12:00 GMT
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Sorry, guys.  My system doesn't know how to route to "violet".

		FTW

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From: ftw (Farrell Woods)
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Subject: Developers Kit

Originally, the Developer's Kit was a $300 package that contained five
diskettes and a small mountain of generally useful but sometimes spotty
documentation.

The disks contained the Alcyon/DRI C compiler for the 68K, originally
written for CP/M, and sorta ported to the TOS environment.  It also has
additional libraries that hook into GEM and all that.  You also get the
MicroEmacs editor, a resource editor, and a bunch of odd tools to support
the compiler.

The docs were for: GEM, VDI, The C compiler, the "line-A" functions, hardware
(including poop sheets for most of the big common chips), old 520 ST
schematics, etc.  A good, solid three binders worth.

You also got a "non-disclosure" agreement to sign and return to Atari.  You
must sign and return the agreement, along with a recipt for the kit, to
Cindy Claveran at Atari to become a "registered developer".

From what I have heard on the net, Atari has un-bundled the kit.  You can
now purchase the "support" part of the kit for about $100.  This part is
what would entitle you to access the Developers sig on Compu$erve, buy
the "blitter ROMs" from Atari, etc.


		Farrell