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From: rjung@sal6.usc.edu (Robert  allen Jung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Becoming a developer
Keywords: How?
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Date: 9 Sep 88 14:51:02 GMT
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(Not that I'm really qualified to speak, but...)

  To be a developer in the general sense, all you have to do (I think) is
to write something. Then find a company that'll market your product, and
you're set. Antic and Michtron, it seems, look for new products this way.

  To be a developer in the $300 sense means you send a check to Atari. They
then make you an "official" developer, which means you get a developer's kit
(with all sorts of neat detailed technical papers), and you're put on Atari's
mailing list. You're then entitled to get goodies straight from Atari's
innermost lairs, such as development update newsletters and early versions of
new TOS ROMs B-).

  I don't think the Developer's Kit comes with Megamax C. For that, you'll
have to shell out $200 like the rest of us (well, I've got Laser C, but
since Megamax makes that too, I consider it the same)


  If I screwed anything up, will somebody tell me? These are just the
impressions from a programmer on the _outside_ of the developer's
"inner circle" B-).


						--R.J.
						B-)

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