Path: utzoo!lsuc!ncrcan!brambo!sid
From: sid@brambo.UUCP (Sid Van den Heede)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Changing  to / in TOS
Message-ID: <282@brambo.UUCP>
Date: 18 Feb 88 20:04:13 GMT
References: <1988Jan29.130047.18554@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <969@atari.UUCP> <1988Feb6.152605.3470@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <4805@ihlpg.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: sid@brambo.UUCP (Sid Van den Heede)
Organization: Bramalea Software Inc., Bramalea, Ont.
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In article <4805@ihlpg.ATT.COM> tainter@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Tainter) writes:
>In article <1988Feb6.152605.3470@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>, lharris@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Leonard Harris) writes:
>> Excuse me if I'm mistaken - but why not release the bug fixes now?
>> Since it is only useful to people with Ataris.
>> 	Is support like this too much to ask, or does Atari see $$$ in new
>> rom sales and/or developer registrations for this?
>
>Actually, I think they should make a RAM loaded patch and post it here, DELPHI,
>GENIE, COMPUSERVE (open forums not the developers SIG), the STadel network
>and any other of the major computer networks.
>
>> /Leonard
>
>--j.a.tainter

I replied to Allan's message about the bug fixes, suggesting that the patches
be posted here (since he expects them to be only 32K).  No response.  So now
I'm posting my comments...

I am a "registered developer" (ie, I bought the developer's kit) even though 
I don't produce any products, but I haven't heard anything that suggests I'll 
get a set of ROMs, even if I do have to buy them.  I didn't receive an offer 
to acquire or purchase GDOS either, even though it exists (it comes with 
certain software packages).

You know, the Atari ST series of machines are quite amazing devices...Too
bad Atari doesn't seem to see it that way.  They keep leaving out key
ingredients that would give the machines a decent chance of taking off...
Like GDOS...and a write signal on the cartridge port...and support...