Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!portal!atari!jpatton
From: jpatton@atari.UUCP (J. E. Patton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Becoming a developer
Message-ID: <1501@atari.UUCP>
Date: 18 May 89 05:43:40 GMT
Reply-To: jpatton@atari.UUCP (J. E. Patton)
Organization: Atari (US) Corporation, Sunnyvale, California
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By popular demand the following information is posted for those interested 
in becoming registered Atari developers. It pertains only to those located 
in the U.S.   Atari has subsidiaries all over the world and you should contact
the appropriate one for more information about becoming a developer.
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To become a registered developer you must purchase one of the following 
forms of the kit.

$ 112.50  Documents Only
$ 237.00  Above w/telephone support, online registration, hardware discounts
$ 300.00  All the above plus Mark Williams C compiler.

If you live in California please add 7% sales tax.  Checks will be returned 
if tax is not included.  To purchase the Developer's Kit please send a 
cashiers check or money order to the following address:

Atari Corporation
1196 Borregas Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
Attn: Developer Coordinator

The Developer's Kit will be sent back to you prepaid UPS Blue.  Allow 
two weeks from the time we receive your check.  Please note:  UPS cannot 
deliver to a P.O. Box.

The actual process of getting registered relies on the developer returning 
a confidential disclosure form which is contained in the developer's kit.

The following is a list of some of the documents in the developers kit:

	 o Question and Answer Newsletters
	 o Introduction to GEM programming
	 o A Hitchhiker's Guide to the BIOS
	 o Atari GEMDOS Reference Manual
	 o GEM Programmer's Guide, Vol. 1--VDI
	 o GEM Programmer's Guide, Vol. 2--AES
	 o Still Another Line-A Document (SALAD)
	 o Engineering Hardware Specification
	 o Chip specifications
	 o SFP004
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